Brief Life History of Albert Homer
When Albert Homer Walton was born in 1883, in Rockwall, Texas, United States, his father, John Austin Walton, was 36 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth McCartney, was 38. He married Annie Laurie Black on 8 April 1920, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States. He lived in Woods, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 20 May 1949, in Drummond, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 66.
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- Wilbern Walton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Albert H Walton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
- Albert Homer Walton, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
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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