The Independent Saturday March 3, 1894 Death at the Old Ladies Rest. Mrs. Louis A. WALKER, aged 74, died last Wednesday at the old ladies rest. Her body, responsive to her wish, was taken to Lawrence for burial. The deceased came to Kansas in 1854 during the border troubles. Her first husband was G.W. BROWN, who published the Herald of Freedom, the first free state paper published in Kansas. It was published at Lawrence. The deceased passed through all the stirring scenes of those days and was brave as the bravest. There was stored in her memory a glorious history of those days. One by one those early settlers pass away, but it was glorious to have lived in and survived those days.