Ironton Register 3 July 1875 Quaker Bottom, Ohio
Editor Register.
Thomas Walton died of dropsy and old age at the residence of his son, Thomas A. Walton, in Rome Township, on May 26th, at 2:40 p.m., of dropsy and old age. He was born January 14, 1785, in Cobshire House, Township of Langthorn, Bedale Parish, Northriding, Co. of York, England; aged 90 years, four months, and 12 days.
He taught school at Bowes, also mathematics for four years at Branard Castle Academy, County of Durham; married Margaret Wilkinson, at the latter place, August 30, 1814, by license. She died on August 29, 1815, at Doncaster. He kept books at Blackboy Iron Works, Doncaster, for seven years.
By Bans, he married Elizabeth Smith, of Scruby, at Doncaster, Nottinghamshire, on April 28, 1819. They sailed from Liverpool on June 6, 1819, landing at Baltimore on August 8. They walked from Baltimore to Wheeling. From there, they came by skiff down the Ohio river, landing in Rome Township on September 6, 1819. He and his wife joined the M. E. Church on September 28, 1824, at Haskellsville, of which both were members till death.
He organized and conducted the first Sabbath school in Rome township, supposedly the first in Southern Ohio. Was for many years County Surveyor of this county. He gave the ground for the first Rome Chapel, graveyard, and campground; took a very active part in the advancement of education; was an anti-slavery man when there were but three such in this county, for which his life was many times threatened. He helped organize the Rome and Union Farmers Club, being a member till death; with others, organized the Rome Debating Society in 1838; voted fourteen times for President of the United States; laid out Ironton and East Ironton. Truly his life was that of length and usefulness.
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She died At Rome, Lawrence County, Ohio, on January 9, 1862; Elizabeth Walton, wife of Thomas Walton, aged 72 years and 11 months.
She was born at Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, February 11, 1789; married to Thomas Walton, April 26, 1819; started for America, June 6; landed at Baltimore, August 6, and at New Haskellville, September 6, and only moved once since, in 1831, to near Rome Chapel. Raised in the faith of the Episcopal Church, she joined the Methodist Church at the forming of the first class in the township in 1824 – Rev. James Haskell, class leader. With her husband and sister, the class contained eight members. She lived to see the Church greatly extended in the vicinity.
Two daughters preceded her to the inheritance of the just. Her side buries one, and one in Illinois. Her two sons were with her in the last hours. The other child, a daughter, is in Illinois. Her sickness was very short (paralysis,) only a few days, and often in an unconscious state, but when able to convey her ideas, she gave undoubted evidence of a bright hope beyond this life.
The funeral on Sabbath, by Rev. Dr. Tracy, was listened to by many friends, who appeared to feel that a Mother in Israel had departed from the Church militant to the Church triumphant.
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