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Lucy Ann Elizabeth George (b. 06 Mar 1828, d. Sep 1918)
Aunt Puss |
Lucy Ann Elizabeth George (daughter of Hardin George and Angeline Miller) was born 06 Mar 1828 in Limestone County, Alabama10, and died Sep 1918 in Centerville, Yell County, Arkansas11.She married Elijah Walker on 04 Jul 1844 in Danville, Yell County, Arkansas.
Notes for Lucy Ann Elizabeth George:
Lucy was known as "Aunt Puss."She moved to Arkansas with her parents, Hardin and Angeline Miller George.Though her entire name is Lucy Ann Elizabeth George, she married by the name Elizabeth to Elijah Walker on July 4, 1844.
Lucy lived to be 90 years old.She was born March 6, 1828 and died September 1918 according to the Arkansas Death Index for the years 1914 - 1949.These are also the dates given on her tombstone.
Lucy George, the firstborn of Hardin and Angeline, was born on March 6, 1828 in Limestone County, Alabama.She lived most of her life in Magazine Precinct, Yell Co. Arkansas where her family were leaders in the Mount George Church of Christ.In her later years she was given the name "Aunt Puss". She was 5' in her bare feet, small and thin, with inquisitive...piercing eyes.She made her own soap in a huge black raw iron pot in back of the home place in Centerville, Arkansas as most women did.She made coffee and red-eye gravy on her old iron stove still using wood to fire the heat.Seth Walker, her grandson, in an interview before his death told of the good times and bad.He toldof how his family and ancestors hid Myra Belle Starr from the law in the Magazine Precinct, Yell County, Arkansas.Seth said that after the Civil War, his family lost everything including all their slaves on the Walker side.Some of the Walkers and Georges fought for the North.The Walkers were spilt on this subject. There are slave graves behind the Walker homes in Centerville, Yell County, Arkansas.Lucy would take all the family to worship at the services in Magazine Precinct Yell County, Arkansas.They were leaders in the Mount George Church of Christ in a small wooden frame church building.She would proudly sit with her brothers and sisters arranged on her grandmother's homemade quilts behind the pews.Rain or shine they were there....that was in the year 1859."Aunt Puss" was a devout Christian woman and set in her ways. Mount George Cemetery for which Hardin George donated the land is beside the church and many of the George family are buried there.
The Yell County History book has the following excerpt which includes information on Lucy Walker:
Later, Lucy Ann joined the Ard Church of Christ.The Ard church was formed October 11, 1874, according to church minutes.It was known as the Ard Springs Church of Christ.
The minutes read as follows:We the disciples of Christ meeting at Ard Springs, Yell County, State of Arkansas, embody ourselves for the purpose of worshipping God.Known as the Church of Christ and to convant with God and teach others to take the Bible and in a love as our only will and guide to our faith and practice we have here unto anex our names this 11th day of October 1874.
So brethern and sisters after having enrolled their names and forming a body of organizing disciples according to the plan as market in the new testament.
Resolves that Bro. Hiram Dacus and J. S. Guinn should be chosen elders they being qualified and of good report and it was also resolved of the brethren and sisters to choose deacons as has Robert Cox and Prestly W. George were chosen, they being qualified for such work among the brethren and it was further agreed to select Bro. C. L. Thomson as clerk for the Ard Springs congregation and the book for registering the names of the brethren was given to his charge.The parting by greeting each other by the hand was then gone through and all left much edified.
To Christ all the praise now and evermore.Amen. C. L. Thomson, clerk.
There were twenty-four brethren present that day and twenty-one sisters.They were the following:James A. Dacus Hiram Dacus, Hesakiah Dacus, Prestley W. George, Robert Cox, James S. Guinn, J. E. Paty, E. T. George, B. Caraway, D. Thomas Tucker, J. T. Pennington, Joseph Huhn, R. T. Land, James M. Walker, David H. George, W. A. Kuhn, James M. Cook, J. B. Reich, Jessee J. George, A. M. Gee, R. S. Kuhn, R. A. George, Harden George, C. T. Thomson.
Catherine C. Dacus, Angaline George, Eliz. E. Pennington, Frances Reich, Mary George, Lucinda Dacus, Martha A. George, Marinda Guinn, Euelin J. Cook, Martha J. Dacus, Mariah E. Cox, Lucy Ann Walker, Sarah E. Dacus and Ann Smith.
This information of the organization and conformation of the Ard Springs Church of Christ was taken from the original church ledger.
Ann Elizabeth Cox Thaxton received the church ledger at the death of her parents.
The Cox, Cook, Dacus, George, and Thomson families were all kinfolk for they married into many of the church families.
"Aunt Puss" was a member of the Church of Christ.Her husband Elijah Walker was a member of the Baptist Church.How did they resolve their separate beliefs.There must have been some interesting moments in that family.Wouldn't it have been fun to be a fly on the wall?
More About Lucy Ann Elizabeth George:
Burial: Sep 1918, Mt. George Cemetery, Mt. George, Yell County, Arkansas.
Church Membership 1: 11 Oct 1874, Ard Springs Church of Christ, Yell County, Arkansas.
Church Membership 2: 1859, Jack Walker Yarbrough Website at genealogy.com.
More About Lucy Ann Elizabeth George and Elijah Walker:
Marriage: 04 Jul 1844, Danville, Yell County, Arkansas.
Children of Lucy Ann Elizabeth George and Elijah Walker are:
- +Mary B. Walker, b. Jun 1847, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. Bef. 1910, Centerville, Yell County, Arkansas.
- +Hardin C. Walker, b. 19 Feb 1849, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. 17 Mar 1935, Centerville, Yell County, Arkansas.
- +William Jasper Walker, b. 19 Feb 1849, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. date unknown.
- +James M. Walker, b. 1855, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. Bef. 1900, Centerville, Yell County, Arkansas.
- +Cornelius Avington Walker, b. 09 Feb 1857, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. 24 Nov 1921, Mt. George, Yell County, Arkansas.
- +Angeline J. Walker, b. 1864, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. date unknown.
- +George W. Walker, b. Aug 1867, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. date unknown.
- +Martha Louise Walker, b. Dec 1869, Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas, d. 11 Mar 1939, Centerville, Yell County, Arkansas.