Fred Walton was born on 6 June 1937, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He died on 28 February 2022, in his hometown, at the age of 84, and was buried in Park Lawn Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, 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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