Once again you never know when you will find something new and interesting about Crittenden County people.
In the Sisco Chapel Cemetery there is a tombstone for Lewis Walker and his wife, Mary J. Walker.
I knew he was a Civil War Veteran from some earlier research.
He joined the Union forces and was in Co. A., 48th Regiment, Kentucky Vol. Mounted Infantry.
That's all I knew.
Recently I was shared the information that there was a small booklet printed about the Walker Brothers and their history in the Civil War. It is titled Sam Houston & Napoleon Bonaparte Meet On The Civil War Battlefield. A True Story Of The Walker Brothers, researched and written by Edward Leo Semler, Jr.
What a surprise, Sam Houston & Napoleon Bonaparte Walker were brothers of Lewis.
Sam and Napoleon, as the title suggests, fought on opposite sides of the war.
So the story was more about them than Lewis, but still Lewis is in the book, plus pictures of all three brothers, and a little history about their earlier days and how they left their home in Tennessee and two of the brothers went to Missouri and Lewis settled in Crittenden County near the Sisco Chapel area.
They all survived the war, and Lewis came back home to Crittenden County and continued with his life of farming and raising a large family.
So now this tombstone in the little Sisco Chapel Cemetery has a story to tell and a history of it's own.
The very interesting little booklet can be purchased from Amazon.com. "Sam Houston & Napoleon Bonaparte Meet On The Civil War Battlefield. A True Story of The Walker Brothers." What a treasure for anyone descended from this Walker line.
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