WALTON, Henry Lenhart

WALTON, CLARK, WING, THORP, LOVING, HALL, CHASTAIN, DURHAM

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/16/2014 at 10:36:52

Biography ~ Henry Lenhart Walton

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), Pp. 552-13:

Henry L. WALTON, of Leon, is one of the pioneers of Decatur County, having settled on section 4, in Eden Township, in October, 1853. At that time the nearest mill was at Princeton, Missouri. There was but one store on the village plat of Leon, and that was operated by I. N. CLARK and THOMAS WING. There were not more than five or six buildings, and there were of logs. Mr. WALTON was born at Williamsport, the county seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in 1816. His parents are GEORGE and MARTHA WALTON, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New Jersey. When HENRY was five or six years of age they removed to Marion County, Ohio, where he grew to manhood on his father’s farm. In [November 9] 1838 he married ELIZABETH CLARK, a native of Wayne County, Ohio. Mr. WALTON moved to Jasper County, Indiana, and in October, 1853, came to Iowa with his brothers SIMON and GEORGE, and a half-brother, JOHN THORP. All located except his brother GEROGE, settled in Center Township, where he lived many years, and now lived in Kansas. SIMON GEORGE also lives in Kansas, his farm joining his brother’s. Mr. THORP lives in Leon. Mr. WALTON made a location in Eden Township, and immediately returned to Indiana for his family, which consisted of a wife and eight children – two sons and six daughters. He resided on this place twenty-two years. He purchased a claim on sections 3 and 4, of 320 acres, for which he paid $660. It was a very desirable location, consisting of both prairie and timber land. Here in this pleasant home his children grew to maturity. In 1875 he exchanged this farm for one in Center Township. In the spring of 1886 he rented his farm, and removed to Leon. Of their eight children six are living - JOSEPH W., died at the age of twenty-seven years, and ARCHIBALD at the age of sixteen. The wife who labored with her husband so many years left him for the better land in 1884, and in 1885 he married Miss LIZZIE LOVING, daughter of JOHN LOVING. When Mr. WALTON first came here his means consisted of about $500 and two teams. But few are left of the pioneers of ’53, and less will their number grow from year to year till all are gone.

NOTE: Henry was born April 5, 1816, Williamaport PA, and died August 9, 1894. Elizabeth (Clark) Walton was born in Wayne Co. IA on May 22, 1815, and died October 22, 1884. They were interred at Chastain Cemetery, Decatur Co. IA.

Of Henry and Elizabeth's children:
Martha Ann (Walton) Hall, born 07 Oct 1838, OH, died 12 Sep 1917, Clarke Co. IA, interred Green Bay Cemetery, Clarke Co. IA

Martha married Benjamin Francis Hall, born 28 Nov 1834, IN, 23 Jul 1900, interred Green Bay Cemetery
Sarah Jane (Walton ) Chastain, born 20 Jan 1840, died 10 Dec 1920, interred Chastain Cemetery

Sarah married 26 Jan 1860 Lucious Rayne Chastain*, born 01 Oct 1833, died 21 Jul 1889, interred Chastain Cemetery
Joseph Willis Walton, born 30 Oct 1841, died 04 Nov 1868, interred Chastain Cemetery

Joseph married 01 Oct 1868 Mary E. Chastain*, born 22 Jan 1835, died 18 Sep 1917, interred Chastain Cememtery
Ida L. (Walton) Durham, born 17 Nov 1843, died 25 Jan 1916, interred Pleasant Prairie, Jewell Co. KS

Ida married Oliver Durham, born 20 Oct 1849, Defiance Co. OH, died 04 Feb. 1917, Civil War Veteran, Co. A, 38th OH Inf. 1861-65, interred Pleasant Prairie Cemetery
Archibald Walton, born 22 Aug 1852, IN, died 18 Dec 1868, interred Chastain Cemetery
* Mary (Chastain) Walton and Lucious Rayne Chastain were the children of Levi and Louisa (Martin) Chastain

Lucy Lillie (Loving) Walton was born in Clay County IN on October 5, 1837, and died November 29, 1886, Leon IA. She was interred at Leon Cemetery.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014

Note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2014