Westbrook-Walker Cemetery

Westbrook-Walker Cemetery

Address

County

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Milam

703443

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Milano

3404484

		Latitude	Longitude
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	Location	Repair Condition
	From TX36, east on CR236 across RR track, 7 big turns to a bridge made from a cut out RR tank car, then about 1/4 mile on the right. Note that actual cemetery is 1/4 mile SE of marker.	excellent

Marker Text

Georgia native Ervin Westbrook and his wife Rachel McCorra Walker left their

Mississippi farm for Texas in 1858. They were joined by Rachel's brother, John

H. Walker, and his family. The two families settled in this area in 1859. The

cemetery began with the burial of Walker's wife, Mary Frances Wells, in 1864.

It served as a graveyard for the Westbrook and Walker families and a number

of their neighbors until the last burials here in the early 1920s. Among the 20 to

30 people buried here are Civil War veterans Ervin Westbrook, William P.

Walker, and John Walker. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood 1845 - 1995