Riley Walton and Maria Herbert

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Husband Riley Walton ¹

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           Born: 14 May 1846 - Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph Walton (1804-1868) 2
         Mother: Nancy Elizabeth Alexander (Abt 1818-1905) 1

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       Marriage: September 3o,1869, 3

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Wife Maria Herbert ³

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         Father: John Herbert (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 M John Herbert Walton ^{3 4}

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           Born: 7 Mar 1871 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Kemp (1872-      ) 5
           Marr: 26 Apr 1893 3

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2 M Joseph Alexander Walton ³

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           Born: 30 Dec 1872 3
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         Spouse: Maud Evans (      -      ) 3

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3 F Catherine Dixon Walton ³

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           Born: 24 Aug 1875 3
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4 M Florence Riley Walton ³

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           Born: 5 May 1877 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Cora Beulah Armor (1878-      ) 3
           Marr: 1 Sep 1898 3

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5 M Robert Francis Walton ³

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           Born: 17 Aug 1879 3
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           Died: 14 Oct 1881 3
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Anna Bertha Walton ³

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           Born: 28 Jan 1883 3
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         Spouse: Lee Huffman (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 19 May 1902 3

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7 F Nancy Walton ³

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           Born: 15 Oct 1887 3
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General Notes: Husband - Riley Walton

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His childhood was spent at the hotel and on his father's farm, and he was educated in the public schools of Delmont, Pennsylvania. At the age of sixteen years he went to the oil region, where for about four years he was engaged in drilling wells with varying fortunes. Prospecting for oil was so uncertain that he finally abandoned it and turned his energies in other directions. Prior to settling down permanently as proprietor of the Hotel Walton he followed the live stock business, cultivated a farm and was for some time engaged in mercantile pursuits. He conducted the Hotel Walton for the first time in 1871, was again called to its management in 1880, and from 1894 on he devoted himself exclusively to the interests of that establishment. The Hotel Walton was a famous and decidedly conspicuous landmark an the old northern turnpike. It was noted for its open hospitality and convivial cheer, the same kind of convivial cheer that characterized the inns of old England as described by Charles Dickens. The exuberant Mr. Weller would have felt comfortably at home here, as other notable personages did during the long period of its existence, and Mr. Walton continued to preserve in every particular its time-honored customs.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 567.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 566.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 568.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 592.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 591.