When John Foy Walton was born on 28 March 1858, in Indiana, United States, his father, William Harris Walton, was 40 and his mother, Susan Kelley, was 25. He married Mary Elizabeth Jane Greathouse on 2 August 1891. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Addison Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Union Township, Webster, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 May 1918, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Niangua, Webster, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Webster, Missouri, United States
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places called Walton, which are named with Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala), wald ‘woodland’, wall ‘wall’, or wælla ‘well, spring, stream’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
History: George Walton (1741–1804) signed the Declaration of Independence. He was born in Prince Edward County, VA, whither his grandfather had emigrated from England in 1682. He moved to Savannah, GA, and became governor of GA and a prominent jurist.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
John Foy Walton, the eldest son of Thomas Jefferson and Susan Kelly Walton, was born in Webster county near the Wright county line. When he was a young farmer he had cut cord wood to sell. One mornin …
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