Elizabeth Walker - Oakland Cemetery - Grandview, TX, USA - Doves of peace on Waymarking.com

Mrs. Walker's husband, Philip, was a veteran of the Texas War for Independence, and he served at San Jacinto. Per a Johnson County Historical Marker at the front of the cemetery, they were exhumed and removed to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin in 1936. Their headstones remain as a "remembrance".

Mrs. Walker's original headstone features an arch, presumably the gate into Heaven, with a set of hands reaching down from the clouds, and a dove of peace bearing an olive branch at the bottom. The inscription reads:

Sacred
To the
Memory of
Mrs Elizabeth
Walker

Born
Oct 21st 1827.

Died
July 22nd 1868.

Remember as you
pass by you
must die as well
as I.

Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description) Address: Oakland Cemetery 7501 FM 916 Grandview, TX USA 76050

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