Walnut is located at 34Â°56â²57â³N 88Â°54â²35â³W / 34.94917Â°N 88.90972Â°W / 34.94917; -88.90972 (34.949109, -88.909812). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.4 square miles (14 km2), of which 5.4 square miles (14 km2) is land and 0.04-square-mile (0.10 km2) (0.37%) is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 754 people, 319 households, and 202 families residing in the town.
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 â 29 July 1833) was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.n 1826, Wilberforce moved from his large house in Kensington Gore to Highwood Hill, a more modest property in the countryside of Mill Hill, north of London, where he was soon joined by his son William and family.
Type of material: Marble. William Wilberforce was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey on 3 August 1833. He was born in Hull on 24 August 1759, the only son of Robert and Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Bird). The family had long been settled in Yorkshire.illiam died on 29 July 1833 and Parliament resolved that he should be buried in Westminster Abbey. His grave is next to William Pitt in the north transept and in 1840 a statue, by Samuel Joseph, was set up nearby in the north choir aisle. The inscription reads: