Claiborne James Walton

Birth Date

1823-06-30

Death Date

1907-02-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hart County, Kentucky, physician, politician, and surgeon. Kentucky native. Son of John L. Walton. Married to Nancy E. Maxey Walton in Hart County, Kentucky, on December 3, 1857. Father of Mary L. Walton and Mattie Walton. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hart County from 1851 to 1853. Graduated from the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1853. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1855 to 1863. Physician in Hart County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Hart County in 1860. Served in the 21st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a surgeon from December 13, 1861, to February 7, 1865. Captured near Atlanta, Georgia, on August 26, 1864. Paroled on September 3, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, District 1, p. 738.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, District 1, p. 130B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, Munfordville, p. 345B.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0344.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994038, Hart County Marriages.
"Dr. C. J. Walton Dead," Lexington Leader (Lexington, KY), February 3, 1907, p. 2.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 666-7.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 322.

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