When Jesse Weston Walton was born on 2 August 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Jesse Alexander Walton, was 30 and his mother, Clara Edith Bone, was 32. He married Betty Jean Carter on 25 October 1939, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 3, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Utah, United States in 2000. He died on 10 September 2011, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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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