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Author: Jake3610
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Thank you everyone who replied to my message. After years of research it turns out the
Lillie I was looking for was a nick name for Alice Elizabeth Walker daughter of John
Palmer Walker b 1828 in NY, I found all but one of his children a daughter Anna who was
born about 1878 but apparently died before the 1900 census. I have searched cemetery
records but no luck finding her. Most of the family was living in Lamoille & Tuscarora
after John Died/
Elko Independent Newspaper - August 5, 1898
Death of a Pioneer.
John P. Walker, a pioneer of Nevada, died at the county hospital yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Walker was born in Rome, New York in 1828. In 1856 he went to California and
afterward moved to Arizona. In 1861 he came from Arizona to Carson Nevada, as a guide for
the Overland Stage company and on arrival filled the position of yard master for the
company. In 1862, he moved to Jacobsville, near Austin, and built the first house in what
is now Clifton in Lander county. In 1865, he moved to Lamoille Valley, this county, and
built the first residence in that now prosperous section of the county. This part of
Nevada was then Lander county and Mr. Walker was elected sheriff in 1868. He was the
first sheriff in what is now Elko county and was the first locator of mining property in
the Tuscarora mining district.
The deceased was an active, stirring man. He lived to see Elko county grow from an
almost uninhabited wilderness to the most prosperous county of the great State. He was a
good citizen and his death leaves one less in the ranks of the pioneers of the State. A
widow, one son and four daughters are left to mourn his loss. May the God who watches
over all, comfort and sustain them in their bereavement.
The funeral will take place from the undertaking parlors at 6:30 this evening. The
services will be held at the grave, the Rev. J. A. Mitchell officiating. Friends and
acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.
May the old pioneer rest peacefully beneath the sod of the country he helped to build.
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