She appeared on the American Women quarter in 2024, in the commemorative coin program that the United States Mint has used to honor figures in American women’s history.
## The Oswego Grave and the American Flag
Walker was buried in Rural Cemetery in Oswego, New York, in a black suit. Her casket was draped with an American flag.
The choice of the black suit was not incidental. She had worn men’s formal clothing throughout her adult life, been arrested for it, argued for it, and never conceded the argument. She was buried in what she had always insisted were her clothes — not men’s clothes, her clothes — continuing the argument in death.
The American flag on the casket was a recognition, by the people who arranged her burial, of the military service she had given. The country had officially taken the Medal of Honor off the rolls two years before she died. She had kept wearing it anyway. The flag on the casket was an acknowledgment by those who knew her that whatever the official record said, she had served.
She died 544 days before the constitutional amendment she had spent decades arguing was both necessary and unnecessary — depending on how you read the existing Constitution — was ratified. The movement whose strategy she had disagreed with on specific grounds while agreeing with its fundamental purpose won its ultimate argument. Women got the vote. Walker did not live to cast a ballot.
The restoration in 1977 was the country saying, eventually and posthumously, that it had made a mistake. That the board in 1917 “may have erred.” That the name struck from the rolls should be returned. That the woman who wore the medal every day until she died had been right to wear it.