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Cedartown Standard, July 18, 1901

Mrs. Margaret Lovell Walker, peacefully departed this life at her pretty home in Cave Spring. Mrs. Walker was the daughter of Col. and Mrs. Wm. Lovell, of Talladega, Ala., born in 1835 and was therefore a little more than sixty-six years of age when she died. She was the wife of Col. James Walker, whose death preceded hers many years. She was the mother of a number of children who are prominently related in life. Mrs. Walker was a devoted member of the Presbyterian Church, and loved her Lord with great fervency. Being a woman of wide acquaintance, she numbered her friends by the score. She had such a wonderful tact in being lovable to the young that she easily won them as her friends. How the young people of beautiful Cave Spring must lament the departure of their motherly and elegant friend. You will no more see her smile of greeting, or hear her voice of welcome. You will no more see her on the shady sward nor by your running stream, but strive to meet her across the inky tide of death, "Where the surges cease to roll." Some of the sweetest recollections of my life are of hours that I have spent in the quiet home of this good woman. During my pastorate of the Cave Spring Baptist Church, she so won me to her by her thoughtful, gentle kindness that I could call her by no less sweet name than "Mother Walker," I rejoice this day to "rise up and call her blessed." In consolation to her bereft children and friends, and as a tribute to her revered memory, these humble lines are written by her admiring friend. Livingston E. Roberts.

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