Both Burgess and Wilson WALLS were almost certainly brothers and sons of
Thomas WALL & Frances LAMB (married 1812 in Randolph Co., NC) who are
shown on the 1850 Census, Surry County, NC. They had a brother, Kinchen
WALL, who shot a gun in Randolph Co., NC per records of an 1846 court
case charging Lot LAMB as defendant in the murder of a free black,
Ephraim HAITHCOCK, in Randolph County, North Carolina. Further
information is available. - Tim Walls
Tipton County, Indiana
Tipton Daily Tribune, April 4, 1914 page 8
(from Tipton County Public Library)
Died at Arcadia.
Thursday evening, [April 2, 1914- TWW] at about 6:00 oclock, Burgess
Walls, age 75 years, died at the home of Pet. Winders in Arcadia.
He had been ill but a shot [sic] time and his case was not
considered serious until the last few hours before his death. He had
been suffering with pneumonia. He had been a soldier in the union army
in the civil war. His wife has been dead for many years. He leave [sic]
five children, all living in Oklahoma. No time has been set for the
funeral.
Tipton Daily Tribune, February 9, 1924, page 8
VETERAN CALLED.
Wilson Walls, 92, Dies at Home of Daughter in Arcadia.
Friday night about 7:30 oclock Wilson Walls, 92 years of age, and
a veteran of the civil war, died as a result of paralysis, he having
suffered a third stroke several weeks ago. The end came at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Harry Kinder, in Arcadia, with whom he has been
making his home for the past fifteen years.
The deceased is survived by the daughter, eight grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren, the wife having died several years ago.
Funeral services will be held at the home of the daughter in
Arcadia Sunday afternoon at 1 oclock, Rev L. B. Wyke officiating and
burial will take place at the West Grove cemetery southwest of Arcadia.
The deceased was born in North Carolina in 1832 and when a young
man enlisted in Co. G, Fourth Regiment, U. S. Volunteers. At the close
of the war he was united in marriage to Miss Malinda Cook and he and his
wife came to Indiana, settling southwest of Arcadia, where the wife died
fifteen years ago. They were the parents of two children, one daughter
Lucy, dying in 1879.
Wilson Walls was one of the well-respected citizens of the West
Grove community and had many friends who will regret to hear of his
passing.
[Note by TWW: WPA copy in the library shows one Wilson Walls m. Malinda
Cook Sept. 22, 1872 in Hamilton Co., IN- which appears to contradict
this obituary.] Book 4:193.