Walker (Henry) Cemetery
2003
The cemetery is located between 129 and 117 Alfalfa Lane in the Meadowview Estates off Hugh Cox Road, Gray, Tennessee. Only one tombstone.
GPS Location: 36° 23.43 082° 30.47; Elevation: 1615 ft.
Sarah M. McIntosh Born April 26, 1843, died September 29, 1912
Daughter of Jonathan & Debora Bacon, wife of James McIntosh.
Surveyed, transcribed and donated to the Washington County TNGen Web September 2003 by Donna Cox Briggs and Betty Jane Hylton, members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
Copyrighted 2014 by the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee. No part of this work may be copied without written permission from the Cemetery Survey Team.
James Arthur Walker born November 16, 1883 and died November 13, 1922.
Arthur died of Tuberculosis. While he was sick he loved to sit under a tree, which was to the back of their house. He loved to sit there and look at the beautiful view. He was buried under that tree. That land became a cow pasture and in the 21st century that same land became a housing development, Meadowview Estates. No houses were built in the area of a few graves. Sarah Bacon McIntosh is buried there and she has a tombstone. Today Arthur has a footstone. The barn and tree are gone.
*Henry M Walker bought the land from the Bacons around 1870. Land deed records.
On the south side of the tree is a bigger rock where H.M. Walker’s son is buried. He never married. He had tuberculosis and while sick he would go to the tree and sit which just happens to have a beautiful view.
Today, summer of 2003 that cemetery is surrounded by a housing development, Meadowview Estates
Henry Martin Walker house built in 1890, the year Elmer Guy was born. Log house stood where Howard Walker’s house is located on the curb before the big house. (Barbara Walker Devault told Janelle)
Information gathered from Herbert Carter Walker, grandson of Henry Martin Walker.
Compiled by Janelle Morrow Walker Warden, great granddaughter of HM Walker and daughter of Herbert Carter Walker
Deed Henry M. Walker to Joseph & Deborah Bacon
This indenture made and entered this 11th day of January 1870 between Henry M. Walker, William Walker, Chloe Ann Sylvester, Jesse M. Bayless & wife Susannah formerly Susannah Walker, Henry Keefauver & wife Sarah Jane formerly Sarah Jane Walker heirs an law of John Walker decd. of the one part and Elizabeth Bacon & Deborah Bacon of the other parts all of Washington County State of Tennessee witnesth that the sd Henry M. Walker for himself & the sd Wm Walker, Cloe Ann Sylvester, Jessee M. Bayless & wife, Henry Keefauver & wife heirs an law of the John Walker deed of the other part forth sum of three thousand dollars in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have bargained sold and conveyed and confirm unto the said Elizabeth Bacon & Deborah Bacon who only holds a life estate on it a certain tract of land lying and being in Washington County, Tennessee on the waters of Big Limestone Creek and bounded as follows beginning at a double red oak on Millers line then with his line west 140 poles to a hickory sapling …there with Henry Keefauver line…
Another deed reads:
Two hundred and forty five acres more or less, Deborah Bacon, Sarah Bacon and Martha Bacon part 108 acres, Joseph C. Bacon part 137 acres be the same more or less with all the improvements minerals mines and precious stones in or under said tract to have and to hold unto him the said Henry M. Walker his heirs and assigns forever against them the said Deborah Bacon, Sarah Bacon, Martha Bacon, and Joseph C. Bacon their heirs and assigns …
This 15th day of February 1870….. county clerk J. F. Grisham signed and sealed in presence of R.S. Ferguson and S. M. Bains
Janelle Walker