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Of Rice People Who Are Great
And Those Who Are Growing Great
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German Walker
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This biographical sketch of German Walker
was published in the
Rice [Texas] Rustler on November 11, 1910.
Obvious typesetter's errors and misspellings have been corrected.

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The subject of this sketch is a true representative of the old south aristocracy--gentlemanly, dignified and courteous.  He was born in Simpson county, Mississippi, in 1832, and is now in the 78th year of his age--the oldest citizen of Rice today.  His early life was passed among the pleasant surroundings of a rural home, but one where the public school facilities were very limited, indeed; and as the judge himself expresses it his last school days were passed in a desperate struggle with the oldtime blue-back speller.  On December 14th, 1852, he was happily united in marriage to Miss Isa F. Williams, of Lawrence county, Mississippi, and from which union eleven children were born, seven of whom are now living.  The judge is proud of the fact that he is grandfather to thirty-two children and great grandfather to ten children, living in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.  About sixteen months ago the loving companion of fifty-seven years of his life winged her spirit to the Mercy Throne in the fields of Immortality, and her remains sleep quietly in the cemetery at this place.   Mr. Walker served the people of his home county as assessor, sheriff and tax collector and circuit and probate clerk, he also represented the county in the lower house of the state legislature during the reconstruction period, all of which offices he discharged to the satisfaction of his constituents and credit to himself.  He removed to Navarro county in 1882, and located at Chatfield, where he engaged in farming.  Mr. Walker served the people of this precinct as justice of the peace for ten years, and, it is said of him by those in a position to know, that he made one of the best officers the county ever had.  He voluntarily gave up the office some six years ago.  Judge Walker is an incessant reader and keeps well abreast of the current events of the day.  He can call to mind and talk entertainingly of all the prominent political leaders who figured in the history-making epochs of the country during the past sixty years.  He served in the Confederate army for four years.  Mr. Walker is a well preserved man for his age, which he attributes to always enjoying a clear conscience and to temperate living--that is to say, he always ate and drank anything he desired.


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