The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-19
REWARDS WOMAN
WHO NURSED Him
II. B.. WALKER OF THIS CITY RE-
MEMBERS OLD KINDNESS.
Restores Home to Aged
@e 8s.
California Woman, Who Cared for
Him When He Was Taken Ill in the
Mountains Five Years Ago.

Thomas B. Walker, the Minneapolis
lumber1nan, has now taken advantage
of an opportunity to repay the kind
ness of an old lady which was ex-
tended to him five years ago, without
any thought of substantial remunera-
ton such as she has now received for
her act.
According to San Francisco re-
port, five years ago, r. b. Walker, in
company with his son, Willis Walker,
was taken suddenly i'll while travelling
near the mountain home of Mrs. Julia
A. Carberry. so years old, who had
been a widow year. Her abode was
'on Hatchet Creek mountain, Califor-
MIA, and there she most Hospitality
received the i'll and fatigued lumber
man, and, out of the kindness of her
heart, cared for him and nursed him
| back to health, little suspecting the
wealth of her patient.
During his stay there he learned
considerable of the widows history,
of her troubles and of her plans.
| Before her husbands death it had
been arranged between the two that
| whoever died first was to be buried
| in a spot that the old couple selected
| in a garden on the sheltered hillside
overlooking the mountain home.
Victim of Her Son.
! Wnen judge. Sdf perry ulSu III L o . .
his widow tenderly laid him away IN
the sacred garden spot and afterward
made daily pilgrimages to the place
and kept the grass green over his be-
loved remains. Old age was coming
on apace and the companionship OF
someone was sOrely wanted by the OLD
lady. Her son came, and he, by coax
ing and promises, succeeded in in.
| fluencing his aged mother to deco
over to him the homestead of $50
acres. He told her they would go tc
| Oakland and live in ease and com
| fort. He was handed the deeds. ano
| then, unbeknown to the mother, solo
| the place to a man named Kirk.
Instead of going to Oakland, Car.
berry took his mother to house
across the river from Redding, al
which place in 1902 Carberry was
killed by a man whom he had en-
ployed.
Mrs Carberry was alone, friendless
homeless and without funds. She
went back to the old homestead or
Hatchet Creek mountain, but no door
was opened to her. The new tenants
had sole possession and no room fol
| intruders. Disheartened, sad anc
downcast the old lady went to an ole
! tumble down shack at a far end o.
the premises and has continued to live
there since, brooding over her trou
bles as only broken-hearted mother
can.
Back to Her Home.
Mr.. Walker heard of her misfor
tune. He also remembered the kind
ness she had shown him on that da.
years ago, when he appeared sick a
her home. He sought the owner Q
} the old Carberry place, purchased i
for $1,000, and on Friday installer
Mrs Carberry in her old home, Wher
she can make her daily pilgrimag
to the grave Of her husband. In Civ
ing back to the old lady her forme
home he does so with the expressed
desire that she remain there in peac
and comfort for the rest of her-rdays
Mr.. Walker, who is now in the wes
left Redding Saturday morning TO
Fall River, and en- route he will sto
a. day at the old Carberry home, wher
he will make formal transfer of tn
: place to the widow of its forme
owner.