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Houston J. Walker
Houston J. Walker founded Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough in 1922 with his son Allen H. Walker Sr., in a converted country store across from the courthouse on South Churton Street. The family business later opened homes in Chapel Hill and Mebane. In December 1963 the chapel of its new building at 204 North Churton Street was dedicated in honor of Walker and his late wife, Minnie Montgomery Walker.
Source: NC State Historic Preservation Office: National Register file OR0077ad
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Life and Orange County connections
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- Houston J. Walker buys the James A. Cheek House from Annie Gray Ruffin Annie Gray Ruffin, widowed since she and Allen J. Ruffin bought the Cheek house in 1908, sold it to Houston J. Walker. Three years later Walker and his son Allen H. Walker Sr. opened Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough. People: Allen Jones Ruffin, Houston J. WalkerSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 38
- Houston J. Walker and Allen H. Walker Sr. open Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough Houston J. Walker and his son Allen H. Walker Sr. opened Walker's Funeral Home in Hillsborough, buying a Model T Ford and a Reo hearse. The family added branches in Chapel Hill in 1937 and Mebane in 1945. People: Houston J. WalkerSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, Nov. 28, 1963, p. 12
- Walker's Funeral Home dedicates its chapel at 204 North Churton Street On its 41st anniversary Walker's Funeral Home held an open house and dedicated the chapel in its brick building on North Churton Street, finished late in 1962, honoring founder Houston J. Walker and his late wife Minnie Montgomery Walker. People: Houston J. WalkerSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, Nov. 28, 1963, p. 12
Places in this person’s story
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- Walker’s Funeral Home Businesses, mills and venues · Hillsborough · 2 events here
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Collections and databases
- NC LIVE: prepared search for Houston J. Walker Library card An advanced search of the state’s shared databases already scoped to Orange County’s places and this subject; edit it freely, and sign in through your North Carolina library to read
- Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries
Local help
- Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
- Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison The library’s Local History Liaison helps in person most Mondays, 12 to 3, at the Main Library, or by the online request form
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