Dicey Walker

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Idella Lewis recalls her grandmother, Dicey Walker who was sold on the block in Macon GA. At the time of the sale she had a baby, Lydia, in her arms. Her new master did not want the baby, and no one brought it, so the baby was left at the block in Macon. Duces older daughter, Margaret People's, raised the jnfant as her child. The baby, Lydia Walker, had a son, William Lewis who became the father of Idella Lewis
After Emancipation, Dicey walked from where she was in Georgia, looking for her three children. Dick, Margaret,  Lydia. She went to the place she left them and followed a trail of information until she found them in Bastrop Texas.
Dicey's body rest in Bethany beside that of her daughter Lydia.

Information from Article: Looking Back, Thursday, December 1, 1983 by Ada Simond