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Family: William Walton / Sarah Ann "Sally" Tanner (F7431)  [1, 2, 3

m. Abt 1798


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  • William WaltonFather | Male
    William Walton

    Born  18 Sep 1776  Amelia County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  20 Sep 1865  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Married  Abt 1798   
    Father   
    Mother   

    Mother | Female
    Sarah Ann "Sally" Tanner

    Born  10 Jun 1775  Amelia County, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  12 Jun 1831  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Father   
    Mother   

    Child 1 | Male
    + Robert Newell Walton

    Born  2 May 1802  Whitmell, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1882  Pittsylvania County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Frances Sawyer/Soyars | F7428 
    Married     

  • Sources 
    1. [S100] Internet Source, http://rdricketts.com/blog/2008/11/28/the-walton-land-and-waltons-mountain-at-pleasant-gap/.

    2. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158131109.
      Sally Tanner Walton, w/o Wm. Walton
      Birth 10 Jun 1775, Amelia County, Virginia
      Death 12 Jun 1831 (aged 56), Pittsylvania County, Virginia
      Burial: Walton Family Cemetery
      Pleasant Gap, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
      Issue:
      Pleasant William Walton, 1816?1891
      Spouse: Martha Ann Washington Robertson Walton, 1821-1883 (m. 1836)
      William Walton first married Sally Tanner. It is said they lived in a large house across from the Pleasant Gap intersection.
      William Walton and Sally Tanner Walton, lived is what was described as 'a beautiful show place with several acres landscaped with flowers from all over the world planted around the house.? The house is no longer there and no one seems to know about the grave yard ?in a grove of cedars with tombstones.?

      William Walton was a member of the House of Delegates of the Virginia Assembly from Pittsylvania County and the City of Danville, VA from 1808 to 1814 and from 1821 to 1829. He served during the War of 1812.

      By the 1830s, William Walton owned a total of 2,434 acres mostly in the area from Pleasant Gap to Dry Fork, VA.

      Source - rdricketts.com, edited.

      Children of William and Sally Walton:

      Robert N Walton 1802 xxxx
      Jessee Simeon Walton xxxx xxxx
      Thomas Winfield Walton 1806 1979
      Pleasant William Walton 1816 1891

    3. [S262] One World Tree, (Ancestry), https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=owt&h=6682296&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60525.
      Robert Tanner
      Spouse: Martha Tanner
      F: Edward Tanner
      M: (Name Unknown)
      Birth: 1725 - Amelia
      Death: 3 Mar 1817 - Amelia, Virginia
      Marriage: 1760 - Amelia, Virginia