Macon Weekly Telegraph, Georgia
29 October 1907
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PATHETIC FUNERAL OF CHARLES A. WALKER
ATLANTA, Oct 28 -- The death of Charles A. Walker, of the Southern Railway, who was killed in the yards last Thursday afternoon and whose funeral occurred Sunday, was rendered particularly sad from the fact that he was to have been married on Wednesday of this week and had made all preparations for the ceremony.
His finacee was Miss Josie Harding, of Keysville, VA, and he was to have gone there the first of this week to claim her as his bride. While in the performance of his duties late Thursday afternoon in the north yards of the Southern, he was run down by a freight car and was crushed to death. While Miss Harding was at her home in Keysville planning for the appraoching wedding, she was shocked to receive a telegram informing her of the fatal accident.
The grief-stricken young woman then quickly boarded a train and came to Atlanta. She arrived in time for the funeral and saw the body of her fiance placed beneath the sod in Westview Cemetery Sunday afternoon. Miss Harding is a friend of Mrs. Sims, wife of former Alderman George H. Sims, and is stopping at the Sims home. She will probably remain in Atlanta several days.
