When James Russell Walton was born on 18 September 1958, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, his father, James Flynn Walton, was 21 and his mother, Virginia Lockhart, was 19. He died on 28 April 1993, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in First Lutheran Church Memorial Garden, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.
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.
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