Brief Life History of George Ossian
When George Ossian Walton was born on 8 December 1850, in Lee, Illinois, United States, his father, William Henry Harrison Walton, was 27 and his mother, Frances Newell Taylor, was 26. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1851. He died on 19 June 1851, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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- Marriage of William Harrison Walton and Frances N. Taylor of Mexico, MaineByron town records, film 007595323 page 124
- George Walton, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- George Walton in entry for Mrs Frances N Walton Smith, "Utah, Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005"
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Name Meaning
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.
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