Josiah H "Jo"4 WALTON was born 31 August 1829 in Sumner County, Tennessee, and died 01 July 1895 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He married Mary Francis (Walton) DRAKE 27 October 1868 in Davidson County, Tennessee, daughter of Jas DRAKE and Nancy DRAKE.

Goodspeeds History of Tennessee: Sumner County, 1887, p.924 "Josiah Walton, farmer and stock dealer of District 8, Sumner County, Tennessee, was born there in 1829. He is one of nine children of Josiah Sr. and Sarah (Walker) Walton... With a common school training, out subject began clerking, at his majority, in a grocery in Nashville. In October, 1868, he married Mary F., daughter of Jas. R. and Nancy A. Drake and born in Davidson county in 1850....Mr. Walton served in Co. B. Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, of the Confederate Army, enlisting in 1862. From 1876 to 1882 he served as justice of the peace. A whig and after the war a Democrat. Mr. Walton and two daughters, Mary and Sarah, are members of the Methodist Church South and his wife is a Cumberland Presbyterian."
Mary Francis Walton Tennessee Civil War Petition #1331 for service of Josiah Walton of Davidson County, Tennessee.

Children of Josiah WALTON and Mary DRAKE are:

1. Mary Ann Walton, born 13 January 1870.

2. Sarah Polk (Ouzts) Walton, born 16 June 1872. She married L. Ernest OUZTS 24 September 1905.

3. Suella Walton, born 01 August 1874.

4. Josiah James Walton, born 14 December 1876; died 14 March 1913.

5. Hattie Lou Walton, born 28 July 1879; died 06 March 1880.

6. William Isaac Walton, born 06 June 1881. He married Mary Myrtle (Walton) SANDERS.

7. Emma Ernestine (Hunter) Walton, born 04 June 1883; died 03 September 1969. She married John Gowen HUNTER 21 December 1911.

8. Laura Elizabeth Walton, born 11 June 1886; died 19 October 1886.

9. John Timothy (Son Josiah jr) Walton, born 11 April 1887; died 22 December 1953. He married Annie Sue (Walton) COLLINS 19 September 1909.

10. Benjamin Drake Walton, born 14 April 1891; died 14 November 1892.