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Dr. W. H. Walton, physician and citizen of the Second District, is a son of P. W and M. A. (Collins) Walton; was born in Tipton County in 1845, and is one of eight children, seven living. The father was born in North Carolina in 1810, and came with his parents to Tennessee when a boy, and was raised in Tipton and Lincoln Counties. He was married in Lincoln County in 1843 or 1844, and located four miles west of Covington in 1855, where he died in 1862, having been waylaid and killed. He was a physician, having practiced medicine the greater part of his life, and was one of the leading physicians of Tipton County, and a man of considerable wealth and literary note. The mother was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Tennessee in 1827, and is still living. Our subject was raised and educated in Tipton County. In 1864 he enlisted in the Confederate Army in Company I, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, and served until the latter part of the year when he was taken sick, sent home, and paroled. In 1866 he began the study of medicine, attending the Cincinnati Medical College, and taking one course of lectures in 1866-67, and a few years later continued his practice in his present neighborhood with great success, and stands well in his profession. Dr. Walton owns 115 acres of fine land five miles west of Covington. November, 1869, he married M. J., daughter of William and Sarah McIntosh, and of five children born to this marriage three are living: William W. W., Leona E. and Ashley E. Mrs. Walton was born at Nashville in 1851. Dr. Walton is a conservative Democrat. His first presidential vote was for H. Seymour. Dr. and Mrs. Walton are both Missionary Baptists.