Texas County MO Archives Biographies.....Walton, David Hawkins 1819 - December 23, 1861 ************************************************ 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, 10:23 am Author: Kerma Breedlove David Hawkins Walton son of Joseph & Drusilla (Musick) Walton born 1819 in St. Louis, Missouri died December 23, 1861 at Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri David H. Walton (1819-1861) Susanna “Annie” Knight (1827-1910) 1850 census Texas County, Missouri -David H. Walton 31 born Missouri farmer Susan 29 born Kentucky 1860 census - can't find them on the census David died December 23, 1861 Annie's census 1870 census Roubidoux Township, Texas County, Missouri-Ann Hawkins 39 1880 census Roubidoux Township, Texas County, Missouri-Anna Walton 49 born Tennessee 1890 census not available 1900 census Piney Township, Texas County, Missouri-Ann living with son Francis Walton. David was born in St. Louis, Missouri according to his Civil War Descriptive Roll. He died of congestive chill only after a few weeks of service. He was in the Union Army Company B 6th Regt. Calvary Vols. under Captain Hackney. Descriptive Roll: David was 40 years of age, 5' 7" tall, Black hair & eyes and was a farmer by trade. He enlisted November 15, 1861 and was mustered in at Rolla, Phelps County,Missouri, December 8, 1861 by Col. E.A. Carr. At the time of David's enlistment his son Joseph T. Walton also enlisted. Information from Susanna (Annie) Knight Walton's Civil War Pension file David & Annie were married March 17, 1841 in Wright County, Missouri. The Minister who married them was Presley Martin , Ordained Minister. Also Jackson Trusty witnessed the marriage. Jackson Trusty son of Tincher & Joyce (Musick) Trusty was a first cousin of David's. Information from Civil War Pension file of Annie: Annie married John G. Hawkins September 1867 & John died October 1867 from disease of the Lungs. John G. Hawkins was a first cousin of David H. Walton. He was the son of William & Nancy (Walton) Hawkins. David H. Walton, a sawmill worker as a youth, was a farmer in the rolling hills of southern Missouri’s Texas County. He and his wife, “Annie” (Knight), had eight children before the Civil War broke out, and he rode off as a Union cavalryman, leaving his pregnant wife and children, never to return. David was born around 1819, second son of Joseph and Drusilla (Musick) Walton, then living in St. Louis County, where the boy’s grandfather, William Walton, a reputed soldier of the American revolution, settled in territorial days. David had an older brother, Lewis H. Walton, and a handful of younger siblings, born as his family moved west during the 30’s into Crawford and Pulaski Counties. The latter had a genealogy of its own, becoming parent of Wright County, in 1841, and Texas County, in 1843. By mid-century (Texas County Census 1850; 25A : 14-19, David and his 26 year old wife Annie, had four children, Martha, born 1842; Joseph (1843); Caroline (1846) and John D. Walton, who was born in 1848. David’s parents, Joseph and Drusilla Walton (Texas County Census 1850: 8B : 3- 8), and his wife’s widowed father, Jonathan Knight (Texas County Census 1850: 13A : 6), resided in the vicinity of the late Wilson A. Bell’s lumber mill, where many young members of the family were employed. In the decade of the 50’s, more offspring were added to the Walton household, then located at Licking, Missouri. They were Nancy (born 1852), Mary (1854), Louisa Roseltha [9], who was born April 24, 1857, and Franz Siegel Walton (1860). During all of this time, David Walton apparently toiled at farming although— contrary to custom—he owned no land! For most settlers a visit to the US Land District Office—six of them established in Missouri Territory in 1818—was top priority: That was where abundant land—all public domain having been taken up by the government—might be had at prices ranging from “two bits” (25 cents) to $ 1.25 per acre. David’s father and brother obtained their land by that method. However, David H. Walton’s name does not appear on any such sale. Furthermore, local records of deeds do not list him as a grantee or grantor on any private land transaction. On November 15, 1861, David--then 40 years of age—and their eldest son, 18 year old Joseph T. Walton, enlisted together as private soldiers in the Union Army. The Civil War had been underway in severely divided Missouri for more than six months when they volunteered for three-year terms. Hostilities broke out on May 10th when US Army Captain Nathaniel Lyon, commander of the US Arsenal at St. Louis, forced surrender, Camp Jackson by State Militia General Daniel M. Frost. All was going smoothly until hoodlums in the crowd fired guns over the heads of Union soldiers, setting off a riot in which many spectators were killed or wounded. Union forces were engaged in driving Missouri’s pro-Secession governor, Claiborne Jackson, and former militia general, sterling Price, out of the state. At Houston, the Walton’s—father and son—were enrolled in Captain Hackney’s company “B” of Colonel Woods’ battalion of “Union Rangers”. Three weeks later, they rode horseback from their home in Texas County to Rolla where they were mustered in on December 8th. Rolls show father and son each furnished his on mount. Woods’ battalion—along with those of Colonels Wright and Hawkins—were consolidated to form the Sixth Cavalry regiment, Missouri Volunteers. A “Descriptive Roll” (Missouri Achieves, CW) described David as 5 feet, 7 inches tall, with black hair and black eyes, dark complexion, a farmer and married. Born in St. Louis, St. Louis County. Inducted in by Col. E.A. Carr. Son Joseph was described as 5 feet, 4 inches height with black hair and black eyes, dark complexion, a farmer and single. Born in Waynesville, Pulaski County. Inducted in by Col. E.A. Carr. For some soldiers, service would be brief and tragic. On December 23rd, two days before Christmas and even prior to the regiment’s last bi-monthly muster roll of the year, Private David Walton succumbed to congestive chill… and died. While two officers and 34 enlisted men were killed and mortally wounded during the Sixth Cavalry’s long wartime service, David’s death was counted among six officers and 372 other enlisted men whose lives were claimed by disease. Joseph T. Walton, however, met every muster roll for three years and three months as the Sixth Cavalry rode through campaigns in southern Missouri and Rebel states of Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Company B distinguished itself in action on August 23, 1862, at Hickory Grove, Missouri (Dyer, Compendium of War of rebellion, III: 1306-1307). Joseph Walton—with his horse—was discharged under honorable conditions at New Orleans, January 3, 1865, with bounty due of $ 100 for arms and equipment. David’s second son, John D. Walton, enlisted in the Army later in the war, having suffered for years while growing up at the hands of neighborhood bush- wackers. No record has been found of Private David H. Walton’s burial in any of Missouri’s national cemeteries, but from the Civil War records he is buried in Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri. In fact, an estate file was not started in Texas County until 1872; then a full decade passed until final settlement was reached. David Walton’s widow, known familiarly and affectionately as “Annie Hawkins”, outlived her patriotic husband by nearly half-a-century. She died March 12, 1910 (Mo.VR Texas Deaths 1910: , at the home of her youngest son, Francis M. Walton, in Houston. Her remains were buried in New Hope Cemetery at Solo, Missouri near Houston. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/texas/bios/walton46gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 8.1 Kb