When Darrell Owen Walton was born on 27 July 1935, in Fayette, Kentucky, United States, his father, Darrell Owen Walton Sr, was 27 and his mother, Anna Grace Jeffries, was 25. He lived in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, United States in 1940. He died on 15 June 1992, in Jessamine, Jessamine, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Camp Nelson National Cemetery, Nicholasville, Jessamine, Kentucky, 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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