died in Granbury, Hood. Co., TX, of cerebral spinal meningitis.
Wife of Joseph Walls

Sometime in 1912 in and around Hood County, Texas, an epidemic of spinal meningitis swept through the country. With improved communication and travel, Lucy Jane Walls learned that her parents, Nancy Marie May and Benjamin Washington Camp, had contracted the disease, and she hurried to their bedsides. However, her loving care was incapable of saving her father, and on January 29, 1913 he slipped out of this life. Eleven days later, the illness claimed the life of Lucy's brother, George. Father and son were buried in Squaw Creek Cemetery in Hood County.
In Hall County, Lucy's husband, Joseph, son of Edward Elijah Walls, had received word that Lucy was ill. Leaving their children in the care of family, Joseph boarded the train for Hood County. Lucy was still conscious and able to recognize and speak to him before her death on February 10 just a day after her brother's death.
Again, Joseph boarded the train, this time bringing Lucy's lifeless body home to Hall County for burial. It was on his return that the location of the family burial ground on Elijah Edward Walls' farm was chosen.
Lucy's and Joseph's oldest son, Olin Regis, unpacked his mother's clothing, aired them, and put them away. When he, too, developed spinal meningitis, the family reasoned he must have become infected from contact with her clothing. Seventeen days after his mother's death, Olin fell victim to the killer infection, and he was laid beside her in the new cemetery.
Lucy was preceded in death by four of their ten children, two before moving to Hall County. A son born in 1898 had lived only about a year as did a little daughter born in 1906, and of the triplets born in 1908, one died at birth, and another at about eight months of age. At forty-one, Joseph had buried his wife and five children. After Lucy's and Olin's deaths, Joseph wrote in the family Bible, "Lucy Jane Walls, Born May 8, 1874, Died Feby. 10, 1913 at 9 O'clock P.M. Mon.; Olin R. Walls, Born Nov 21, 1894, Died Feby 27, 1913, at 9 O'clock A.M. Thurs.; Two more dear ones gone to meet their Blessed Lord.
Info from Anne Chappell Published in the Memphis Democrat in 1999