Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Walton, Mrs. L. M., 1938
Saturday, December 16, 2000

Submitted by:  burtwyat@ctesc.net  (Frederica Wyatt)
*************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced 
in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or 
persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must 
obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative 
of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of 
this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives 
to store the file permanently for free access.

http://www.usgwarchives.net
*************************************************************************
(Name of paper not given)

  Mrs. L. M. Walton, known among her many friends as Aunt Ella, died at
her home near London last Wednesday, December 28, and funeral services
were held at the Community Hall Thursday afternoon, Rev. Louis Pearl
officiating.  Interment was made in the London cemetery by the side of
her husband who preceded her May 30, 1938.
  Mrs. Ellen Moore Walton, daughter of the frontiersman, Rance Moore,
was born in Milam county, March 6, 1860, and came to Kimble county with
her parents when she was only two years old.  She grew to womanhood here
and was married to L. M. Walton on November 8, 1874.  To this union were
born eleven children, four of whom preceded the mother in death.  The
surviving children are Jim, Taylor and Luther Walton, London; John Walton,
Rochester; Tom Walton, California; Mrs. Temple Pearson, London; Mrs. Grace
Scharf, Superior, Montana.  Several grandchildren and great grandchildren
also survive.
  Her father bought a ranch from Raleigh Gentry on Bear Creek in 1862
and Mr. Moore and his wife and six children moved to this fringe of
civilization at that time.  Several other children wree born after the
Moore's moved to Bear Creek.  Mrs. Walton lived here when Indians
troubled white settlers.  Her father was a brave Indian fighter for many
years.  Mrs. Walton suffered many of the early hardhsips and saw her
father shot down on December 12, 1874, by a man who had been befriended
by her father.  She was gifted and talented and made a good companion for
her husband with whom she lived about 64 years before his death last May.
  In the homegoing of Aunt Ella Walton, Kimble county has lost another
real pioneer.