Husband John Walton 1 2
Born: 31 Aug 1806 - Columbus, Chenango Co, NY 1
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Father: Aaron Walton (1771- ) 1 2
Mother: Artemisia Field ( - ) 1
Marriage: 15 Sep 1880 3
Other Spouse: Harriet Tracy Spencer (1808-1871) 2 4 - 2 Sep 1828 4
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Wife Elizabeth Lackey 2 3
Born: - Scotland
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Father: Robert Lackey ( - ) 2 3
Mother: Agnes Parker ( - ) 2 3
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General Notes: Husband - John Walton
At about the age of nineteen years John Walton went to work in the winter season at Wrightsville in Warren County, Pennsylvania, operating the saw-mills for the proprietors. At other seasons of the year he went down the river on a raft to Pittsburgh. He continued several winters at Wrightsville, and he continued making annual trips down the river-rafting his own lumber to Pittsburgh, every year for thirty years. On these trips he would take down the river in the spring the logs he had cut the preceding winter. He regarded his father's house as his home until he was twenty-two years of age. Meantime, as one may suppose, he had few advantages for obtaining an education, as his father's means were too limited to send his numerous children away to school, and the schools in the unbroken country were not very advanced nor well graded; still, by his own unaided efforts, he mastered the elementary studies, enough to stand him in good stead in the business world, and was contented.
As soon as he was married he took his wife to live on a farm of some seventy-five acres, five acres of which he had previously cleared, and on which he had erected a log house. Eighteen months later he moved back to his father's farm where he resided for one year, when he again moved, this time to a farm situated about one and a quarter miles northeast of Columbus village, where he stayed two or three years. In 1832 he purchased of Hannibal Lamb a farm two or three miles farther north, consisting then of about one hundred and fifteen acres, but which by gradual accessions Mr. Walton increased to two hundred and fifty acres. He removed to this farm, where he passed many years, where most of his children were born and where several of them were married. Several years previous to the out-break of the civil war he bought a farm of 100 acres (to which he later added forty more acres), on the west side of Columbus borough as later constituted, where he lived until after the death of his first wife, and his marriage to the second.
It was his method to buy land when it was cheap and by his own efforts increase its selling properties and its value, and sell it at a profit. In this way he bought and sold land all his life. His farming came to consist principally of dairying. He owned about twenty-eight cows, besides other live stock, and several colts and horses. His last home farm was later run on shares by his son Frank. He had a small farm of about sixty-five acres north of Columbus, which was chiefly devoted to the raising of hay for his horses and cows. Another farm of seventy-two acres adjoining his old farm was used for pasturing.
Mr. Walton cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson, and was true to the Democratic party thereafter. He held several important township offices, but was not politically aspiring. He was reared in the Methodist Episcopal faith, but became more liberal in his views as he grew older, and later in life was devoting some thought to the mysteries of spiritualism-that fascinating system which, like Glendower of Wales, "can call spirits from the vasty deep."
General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Lackey
She was born in Scotland, but the family immigrated to Canada when she was nine years old. While at sea her mother became sick and died. The family settled in Canada, but her father remained only a few years, when he returned to Scotland. She was then thrown on her own resources, and at an early age, without any education, began the struggle of life. Most of her early life was spent in Canada, where she was entirely dependent on her energy and ambition. Coming when a young girl to Columbus, Warren County, Pennsylvania, she took charge of Mr. Walton's house, later living with Mr. Walton's sister. In September, 1880, she married John Walton, and was to him a kind and loving wife.
She was an active member of the Presbyterian church, giving much time and attention to missionary and charitable works.
Previous to her marriage to Walton, she had resided in Columbus, Warren County, Pennsylvania, for some nineteen years.