Joel Walker Cemetery

This cemetery is on the homestead of Joel Walker and Carrie Herring Walker.  Previous members of the family had been buried in the cemetery Herring/Walker Cemetery.  This includes: Carrie's brothers and sister and her uncle;  Joel's sister (Annie Walker Herring); and Joel and Carrie's children who died in infancy.  At the death of the patriarch, Joel Walker, a cemetery was started on his farm, which abuts the Arthur Herring farm.

The Joel Walker homestead was purchased from heirs of Joe L. Merritt.  Joel himself was raised on Rhynes Crossroads; colored and White Walkers moved there in mid-late 1800s.  Carrie also grerw up on Rhynes -- her uncle Arthur Herring had a farm through his Cowan/Collins ancestors.