Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...escort him 125 miles to family burial grounds at Franklin. Texas. Soon the police-escorted procession was a mile long. Texans with heads uncovered stood by the roadside. Finally, at the Mount Pleasant Baptist cemetery, after three rifle volleys and Taps by a single bugler had echoed across the valley, the casket was lowered into the grave. Williams left 42 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, 64 great-great-grandchildren and 59 great-great-great-grandchildren. He also left a cherished legend: last week Houston Mayor Lewis Cutrer proclaimed the day of his death as Walter Williams Civil War Memorial...