Walker Cemetery - 5 mi. NE of Ratcliff, Houston Co., TX

WALKER CEMETERY

Located 5 Mi. NE of Ratcliff. Turn on oiled road just out of Ratcliff to the left and go to Mt. Vernon Church. Turn again left on U.S. Forestry Rd. and go to U.S. Forestry Rd. 511. Turn left and go about one Mi. Pass the Belle Conner small frame house with the old log home behind it. The Cemetery is just beyond, on the left side of the road with large cedar trees in it.

The Cemetery has been abandoned for years and very little signs of it remain, with the exception of a few broken tombstones. It is situated on the Y. G. Walker Survey. James Albert & Bertha Best, and Lottie Harrell have supplied most of the names of those buried there.

Bertha Best & Nina Craig compiled the following list. Some are from readings on the existing tombstones there several years ago for Houston County Cemetery Book No. II.

BLAND

George; b: 2-5-1873; d: 12- -1877; "Safe in the Arms of Jesus"

Addie Bell; b: 8-9-187?; d:

Alice; b: 10-22-1876; d: 8-17-1882; "Sleep on Sweet Alice and Take Thy Rest God Called Thee Home - He Thought it Best"

BLALOCK

Ida; b: -; d: -; wlo Steve Blalock

GARDNER b: -;d:-

GOLDEN

Henry; b: -; d:

Nan Harrell; b: -; d: -; w/o Henry

GRAHAM

Jennie; b: -; d: -; Step-grandmother/o Lottie Harrell

Mary Turner; no dates

HARRELL

Infant Georgiann; b: -; d:

LONG b: -;d:

MINTON

(Little Frank); b: -; d: -; About 15 of the Minton family buried here

(Little Joe) ; b: -; d:

Essie Mae; b: 3-21-1894; d: 6-26-1898

Sarah Virginia; b: 6-29-1897; d: 12-25-1898

Susie Francis; b: 3-29-1905; d: 11-5-1905

PATTON

George; b: 1885; d: 1902; s/o Jake & Adeline McKinney Patton

REYNOLDS

George; b: -; d: -
A. P.; b: -; d: -

SIEBERT

Sam; b: -; d:

Josie Young; b: -; d: -; Sister/o Viny Young McKinney

TURNER

Jim; b: -; d: Mary; b: -; d: -; Mother/o Jim

WALKER

Ethel; b: -; d: -; Died from burns when a young girl

It is very possible that the parents/o Ethel Walker are buried here, and other family members, but no current information is known. Some people remember that the Cemetery was a large one in earlier days.