George Walton b. 5 February 1832 d 6 March 1904 & Anna Hug
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George Henry Walton & Laura Louisa Harwood
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Lafeyett Roy Harwood Walton
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George Walton was born in Whitbourne, Herefordshire, to Thomas Walton Price and Jane Rowley. In his youth he worked for neighboring farmers; he is found on the 1851 census as a general servant at Pount Farm. George joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and in 1853 emigrated to Utah Territory with his parents, brother John and sister Jan. There he met and married Swiss emigrant Anna Hug (b. 27 June 1835) Having left her own family in Switzerland.

Anna was living with the Francis Birch family and working in their garden when she noticed a young man laboring in the adjoining field. George introduced himself, and later proposed. They were married 3 June 1857 by Bishop Reuben Miller of the Millcreek Ward, then sealed in the Endowment House, 1 November 1859. The couple's first home was their wagon box, propped on a foundation of logs. The summer after their marriage, George traveled to Echo Canyon to deter the approach of Johnston's Army, leaving Anna and newborn daughter Jane to flee south on their own. Shortly before the arrival of Johston's Army to Utah Territory. George traveled to Echo Canyon to help deter the army while his wife and their infant daughter fled south. When Johnston's Army no longer posed a threat, the family returned to their homestead near Mill Creek. Each lived to old age. The family build a one-room cabin, and finally a larger brick home.

Four years after his marriage to Anna, George married another Swiss emigrant, Mary Catherine Haberli (b 25 April 1841) Catherine bore seven children and lived in the log cabin on the Walton property, even after she and George divorced. (Divorce was mandated by new laws created and enforced by the United States Government) To provide for her children, Catherine took in laundry and allowed her sons to hire out. Although family accounts reflect bitter feelings that Catherine's children wore denim "granny gowns," went barefoot, and rarely attended school, probably similar to the lifestyle of Anna's children, who also went hungry at times. George gave each of his children five acres of land when they married. George preceded Anna and Catherine in death. Catherine passed away 16 March 1910, and Anna passed away 22 September 1931, at the age of 97.
Sources Edna True Grover, "History of Anna Hug Walton, Pioneer of 1855: undated and "History of George Walton Price Pioneer of 1853" November 2001 and "Polygamy and the Walton Price Family"