Walker Cemetery gets historical marker

The Cherokee County Historical Commission will dedicate an official Historic Texas Cemetery Medallion at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 20, at the Walker's Chapel Cemetery. This will be the first marker dedicated under the new Texas Historical Commission Cemetery Marker Program. In the past the markers at cemeteries were site markers. Now a cemetery has to be an official Texas Historical Cemetery before an informational marker can be secured. Walker's Chapel is located on CR 4404, which is off FM 235 and near Highway 204. FM 235 connects Reklaw and Lake Striker

This cemetery has ties to Walker's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church South and is named after the foundering minister, John Walker who moved to that vicinity by 1839.

The oldest legible marked grave in the community cemtery dates to 1879.