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Below is a family biography included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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Josiah Walton, farmer and stock dealer, District No. 8, Sumner County, was born there in 1829. He is one of nine children of Josiah, Sr., and Sarah (Walker) Walton. The father, of Welsh origin, was born in Sumner County in August, 1788, and was chairman of the county court several years, and private secretary of Andrew Jackson in 1818. He died in August, 1857. The mother, of Irish origin, was born in Davidson County in 1792, and died in May, 1876. With a common-school training our subject began clerking, at his majority, in a grocery in Nashville. In October, 1868, he married Mary F., daughter of Jas. R. and Nancy A. Drake, and born in Davidson County in 1850. Their children are Mary A., Sarah P. and Suella, all in school; and Hattie L. (deceased), William I., Emma E. and Laura E. (deceased). Mr. Walton served in Company B, Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, of the Confederate Army, enlisting in 1862. A Whig in politics previous to the war, he became a Democrat. From 1876 to 1882 he served as justice of the peace. Mr. Walton and two daughters, Mary and Sarah, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife of the Cumber land Presbyterian Church.
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This family biography is one of 115 biographies included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published in 1887. The History of Sumner County was included within The History of Sumner, Smith, Macon & Trousdale Counties of Tennessee. View the complete description here: History of Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties of Tennessee
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