East Rock Street
Fayetteville, Arkansas
On Saturday August 6, 2011, the deed to the Walker Cemetery was presented to the Southern Memorial Association by descendants of the Walker family whose remains rest in this historic cemetery. The cemetery is located across the road from the the Confederate Cemetery on East Rock Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Although the Southern Memorial Association did not own the Walker Cemetery until 2011, its members have been faithful over many years to keep the grass mowed within and around the cemetery.
Descendants of the Walker family have also at times sent donations to the Southern Memorial Association to help with the cost of mowing the grass or tree damage, but funding has never been adequate to restore the major damage to the iron fencing and tombstones which has occurred over the years.
Since acquiring ownership of the Walker Cemetery, the Southern Memorial Association has already begun the process to obtain membership on the National Register of Historic Places for the Walker Cemetery, which contains the remains of pioneer and other influential families of Washington County. Our plans include a complete restoration of the Walker Cemetery.
The Southern Memorial Association is an association with historically only a small dedicated membership which has no public funding, no endowments, no sources of funding other than donations from caring individuals or other organizations wishing to aid in the maintenance of the the cemeteries which it oversees. The SMA has no paid officers. Everyone in the association is a volunteer.
If you would like to donate to the complete restoration of the Walker Cemetery please send any donations to our treasurer below.
Make checks payable to: SOUTHERN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. You may designate on your check that the donation is to be used for the Walker Cemetery Restoration Fund.
The Southern Memorial Association is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization which depends on donations for maintenance and preservation of the Confederate Cemetery and the Walker Cemetery. All donations made to the SMA for the care of these cemeteries are tax deductible. Request an official receipt from our treasurer.
Southern Memorial Association
12284 Ervan Beeks Road
Farmington, Arkansas 72730
The oldest burial date is on the brick tomb that contains the remains of JACOB WYETH WALKER (1778-1838). In a similar tomb beside him lies his wife, ANN (1782-1851).
Two small brick vaults contain the remains of the children of Erastus E. and Courtnay N. Duncan. One of them is an infant who died in 1844 and the other son Thomas Wyeth Duncan who died in 1850.
DAVID WALKER (1806-1879) and wife JANE L. (1813-1847)
CAPT. JOHN J. WALKER (1817-1886)
JAMES DAVID WALKER (1830-1906) and wife MARY (1837-1910) and their son GEORGE WALKER who died in 1883 and a daughter who died in 1892.
CHARLES WHITING WALKER (1834-1924) and wife SERENA (1843-1932)
CAPT. JACOB WYTHE WALKER (1833-1864) of Company A, 2nd Arkansas Regiment, CSA, who was killed in the Battle of Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, on May 21, 1864.
JACOB WYTHE WALKER (1866-1928)
SUSAN H. WALKER (1857-1939)
JACK WALKER (1869-1923)
DAVID WALKER (1872-1935)
REBECCA WASHINGTON (1786-1861) and her sister LUCY SMITH (1796-1861)
WHITING WASHINGTON (1824-1896)
JOHN JAMES POPE (died 1861)
CHARLES R. BUCKNER (1842-1910) and wife NANNIE WALKER BUCKNER (1842-1910)
JACOB CARMAN PURDY (1834-1916) and wife ANNIE NEWMAN PURDY (1845-1912)
