Monday, November 26, 2012

George Henry Walton & Laura Louisa Harwood
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Lafeyett Roy Harwood Walton
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Vera Irene Walton Smith
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Judy Smith Visser
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Me

George H. Walton (b. 15 Feb. 1860 d. 25 May 1955)
Was born in Millcreek, a son of early pioneers George and Anna Hug Walton. As a young man he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad, grading in Weber Canyon. Later he hauled timber from Mill Creek Canyon and freight from Salt Lake City to the Wood River country in Idaho. He was an early settler on the upper Snake River Valley.
On 14 April 1887 he married Laura Louisa Harwood. Louisa had been born 3 January 1865 in Letton Green, Norfolk, England, daughter of Henery Harwood and Lois Hood. She was employed in England as a domestic servant. She came to Salt Lake City in 1884, crossing the Atlantic with her two brothers aboard the Arizona.
George and Louisa were later sealed in the Logan Temple. They had five children: George E. H., Hazel, Lafayette, Lenard, and Ethel.

In 1899 George established the Pioneer Grocery and Coal business. He moved his family to Rigby, Idaho, in 1907, where he had established a ranch some years before. They returned to Millcreek and their coal and feed business in 1912, living at 209 West 3300 South. From 1922 to 1925 George was justice of the peace in the third precinct. 
Louisa died 12 February 1937. At the time of George's death (25, May 1955) he was the oldest member of the Wells Stake high priest quorum at the age of 95. Both George and Louisa are buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park.

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