Julia (Romane) Walker (1839-1897)

ROMANE, WALKER, VAUTHRIN, PATTERSON, LOVELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/5/2014 at 20:03:26

From Nevada Representative May 12, 1897

Death of Mrs. Julia Walker

"It lies about us like a cloud,--
A world we do not see;
Yet the sweet closing of an eye
May bring us there to be.

Firm in this faith, Mrs. Julia Walker, at her home on Seventh and Walnut street, Sunday evening passed from the mortal life whose last year has been characterized by intense suffering. Her funeral was held Tuesday afternoon. Rev Shrader conducting the service amid sympathetic friends and neighbors whose numbers filled dwelling and yard. Details of the occasion had been specified and provided for by her own careful forthought, excepting only the spontaneous expressions of affectionate appreciation. Covered with floral emblems of love and hope, on the sunny side of the granite reared by herself to the memory of her husband, her remains were tenderly laid for their long repose. Julia Romane was born in Rockville, Indiana, December 14th, 1840. She was orphaned at the age of twenty months, by the death of her mother, with her father, Isaac Romane, and family she came to Nevada to live in the autumn of 1854. She was married to Isaac Walker October 11th, 1863; and widowed by his death October 16th, 1893. The thirty years of her married life were mostly spent on their farm east of Nevada, the home being transferred to town after a winter spent in Louisiana a few years before Mr. Walker's death. her social and neighborly relations were wide and her sterling qualities were best appreciated by those who knew her best. He decease means the death of a home. Her nearest surviving relatives are her sisters, Mrs. Vauthrin of Marshall county; Mrs. Patterson of Colfax, Washington; Mrs. J. C. Lovell of Nevada; and eight brothers located in Missouri, Oklahoma and Washington.

From Rev. Shrader's funeral address we make the following excerpts:

"In this home has but lately ended one of the fiercest struggles witnessed by men or angels. Mrs. Walker fought a desperate battle; she contested every inch of ground. He masterful mind, her imperious, queenly will, her splendidly constituted body--all combined to resist disease and death. But it was a losing battle; she rests at last. Over the spoils of death our hearts are sad. Yet with our tears we bring flowers * * * * Julia Romane Walker was one of the pioneers. Her eyes beheld those prairies covered with virgin sod; she was the billowy bays of green grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine; * * * she threaded her dangerous say through the bogful sloughs, bottomless ponds and forded the turbulent streams at floodtide. Hardy toil and common fate were hers. With her own hands she tilled the soil and gathered the fruits nature so bountifully returned. * * * Since her husband's departure she had sought to administer he own affairs and in this had show strength of character and independent judgment. In the final disposition if her possessions she received counsel from none; and at last, with resignation, folded her hands to rest. We honor her for her pioneer labors the fruits of which we share; we praise her for her virtues.