Died near Strawberry Plains, Tennessee on the 5th inst., in the 63rd year of her age, Elizabeth Walker, consort of James Walker.

The deceased was born in the year 1786 in the county of Derry, Ireland. She with the balance of the family, emigrated to the United States about the year 1796. She removed to Tennessee the same year, then about ten years old.

She made a public profession of religion in the year 1806 and joined the church then, under the pastoral care of her brother, thus early devoting herself to the cause of her Savior.

The year previous she intermarried with James Walker, with whom she lived until it pleased her Heavenly Father to release her from her toils and troubles on earth and as we humbly trust, transplanted her to that Church triumphant, where sorrow and parting are forever unknown. In December 1826, the deceased removed her membership to the Strawberry Plains Church, where she remained a consistent member until her decease.

In her last sickness which terminated her pilgrimage on earth, she remained the same uncomplaining sufferer she had long been. One week before her death she remarked to the writer of this short notice that her hope for life and death was entirely on the Savior and the evening before she died in a conversation with her pastor, she expressed the same unshaken confidence in the ability and willingness of the Savior to sustain her in the last conflict which she knew was just at hand. Thus she breathed her last breath leaving a disconsolate husband and numerous relatives to mourn their loss.

Knoxville Register, Wednesday, November 29, 1848

Transcribed by Robert McGinnis and used with permission.