Newspaper obituary: 'Dear Little Infant Taken Away' — Amy Walker, died June 30, 1911
Book 2, Page 68 ·1911
Transcription
Dear Little Infant Taken Away.—After a severe attack of illness, and after making a brave fight for her dear little life, Amy, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Walker, passed away Friday morning, June 30th, at 3 o’clock. The remains of the little girl were taken to Charleston, S. C., for interment, accompanied by the heart broken parents, and the little body was laid to rest on Saturday, July 1st.
Amy Walker was only a few months old when Mr. and Mrs. Walker came to Weldon, in the spring of 1910, Mr. Walker being chief engineer in charge of the construction of the new route of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad through Weldon.
She was the first pledge of their love, sent from heaven to brighten the hearts and home of fond parents, and was one of the prettiest, most winsome and loveable little flowers that ever opened its blue eyes upon the material things of earth. Too tender for earth the Lord has gathered her into the fold out of the storms of earth and has transplanted her tender feet into the way where all is joy and peace.
Mr. and Mrs. Walker have the sincerest sympathy of this entire community in their sad bereavement.
AI Notes
A long narrow newspaper-column clipping mounted on the album page, headed ‘Dear Little Infant Taken Away’. Sentimental obituary written for the Weldon, N. C. paper, describing the death of Amy Walker, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Walker, on Friday morning, June 30, 1911. The clipping records that Mr. Walker had come to Weldon in the spring of 1910 as chief engineer in charge of the new route of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad through Weldon.
Weldon, N.C., on the Roanoke River, was a major junction on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad — historically known as “the gateway to the South” for through traffic between Richmond and the southeastern coast. Puck Walker’s assignment as chief engineer of the new ACL route through Weldon (1910–11) placed the young family there during the line’s early 20th-century rebuilding.