Walkup - William - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

On that lone pilgrimage from whence no traveler e’er returns departed the spirit of William Walkup, July 5, 1896. He was born in Augusta County, Va., June 13, 1823, coming to Indiana, when quite small, with his parents and resided near Waveland, where he spent his earlier years enduring the hardships and the privations of pioneer life. It was through honest industry he accumulated property and in the fall of 1869 he married Margaret J. Bratton. It was only one short year of married life. She was called home leaving a little son a few hours old, who for thirty five years has lived to be the solace and stay of his declining years.  It has been pathetic the way he revered the sacred memory of the dead companion of his manhood days. But Uncle Billie is gone, and he has left his son and his wife, a little granddaughter, Maggie, to grieve for the loved one that will never return. He has left a host of friends and relatives and an aged brother who misses the companion of his youth and old age, but he has the sympathy of all in his sad “Good-bye Bill.” He was a member of no church but he believed that “by faith are we saved” and not by churches or creeds. At old Union he was laid to rest.  Like Jacob of old, he was gathered unto his fathers near the Rachel of his youth. So let him rest. We have his mantle of honest rightness, and the same God is as yesterday, today and forever. And He gave, He gook, He will restore; He doeth all things well. -s