Texas County MO Archives Biographies.....Walton, Joseph 1794 - 1860/1870 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kerma Breedlove kermaja@centurytel.net March 7, 2006, 10:07 am Author: Kerma Breedlove From records at the Texas County, Missouri courthouse Joseph & Drusilla (Musick)Walton Son of William & Mary (Hunt) Walton Joseph Walton b:1794 in North Carolina Drusilla Musick b: 1793 in Kentucky Married: about 1813 in St. Louis, Missouri Missouri History: St. Louis, Missouri: Henry Walton took up a bay horse on the road from St. Louis to St. Charles. Joseph Walton & Tincher Trusty valued the horse at $25. November 23, 1816 (JP) Thomas Musick. 1830 census Joseph Walton living in San Ferdinand, St. Louis, Missouri 1840 census Joseph Walton Living in Pulaski County, Missouri 1850 census Joseph Walton 56 born North Carolina & Drusilla 57 born Kentucky, living in Texas County, Missouri 1860 census Joseph Walton 65 born North Carolina & Drusilla 66 born Kentucky, living in Texas County, Missouri. The first known Walton's in Texas County and or Pulaski County, Missouri was Joseph Walton & William Walton's children. From Pioneer History of Texas County Washington Walton a nephew of Joseph's , purchased a Sawmill from Truesdale in 1828. Information was recorded in Mary Walton's (mother of Joseph & William) will probated 1838 in St. Louis, Missouri that Joseph Walton & William Walton's children were living in Pulaski County, Mo. Texas County, was not formed until 1846. Joseph Walton was the first Representative of Texas County serving from 1846- 1848. Information from Missouri State Achieves. Joseph Walton was a farmer with business interests in south-central Missouri’s lumber production. He became one of Texas County’s first state legislators. Joseph and his wife, Drusilla (Musick), had seven children. Joseph was born 1794, eighth son and youngest of eleven children of Revolutionary War soldier William Walton and his wife, Mary Hunt, formerly of Virginia. The boy, his brothers and sisters grew up and were educated at home and in primitive schools of the time in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri Territory. Early in the nineteenth century, the Walton family settled in a rural area of northwest of St. Louis, former capital of Spanish Upper Louisiana. President Thomas Jefferson’s 1804 Louisiana Purchase and touched off a tidal wave of American migrants, sweeping across the Mississippi River to seek new beginnings in a place where abundant open land was to be had at reasonable prices. Joseph Walton was married about 1813, to Drusilla Musick, daughter of Reverend Thomas Roy Musick and his wife, Polly Neville, then residing in Barren County, Kentucky. Drusilla’s father, a preacher, has been credited with founding Fee Fee Church—first Baptist church west of the Mississippi. Drusilla and Joseph’s children, Mary Hunt Walton, Lewis Hunt Walton and David Hawkins Walton , William, Caroline, Joseph Alexander and Francis Marion were born were born in St. Ferdinand Township of St. Louis County and came to what ultimately became Texas County. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/texas/bios/walton45gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb