Ralph Emerson Walton (1893 - 1933)

Born 16 Jan 1893 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Lelia Althea (Holman) Walton — married 25 Jul 1915 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 21 Jan 1933 at age 40 in East Dixfield, Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States

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Biography

Ralph Walton is a member of Clan Douglas.

Ralph Walton is a member of Clan MacBean.

Ralph was born in 1893 in Dixfield, Maine, the son of Greenleaf Walton and Eliza Bean. He married Lelia Althea Holman in Dixfield, on 25 Jul 915, a year after meeting her at a Fourth of July picnic and "cotillion" where he bought the box lunch that she had created. Ralph was exempt to serving in WWI due to a left leg injury that resulted in him using a cane.

They had five children: Althea, Earl (Bud), Marlowe Richard (Dick), Wesley and Delbert. They lived in East Dixfield, Maine where he assisted his father with the operation of the family apple farm.

He passed away of pneumonia on 21 Jan 1933 and is buried at the Riverside Cemetery, Dixfield, Maine.

• Fact: Residence (25 Jul 1915) Dixfield, Me
• Fact: Military Draft Registration (1917-1918) Oxford County, Maine, United States
• Fact: Military Draft Registration (1917-1919) East Dixfield, Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1920) Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States
• Fact: Residence (1930) Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States
• Fact: Burial Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, USA
• Fact: Residence East Dixfield, Maine

Obituary

Ralph E Walton

East Dixfield, Jan 23- Ralph E Walton, a life long resident of the town, died at 10:30 p.m., Jan. 21. He was forty years old. Nineteen years ago he married Miss Lelia Holman of Dixfield who survives him. He also leaves five children from 3 1/2 years to 15; one brother, M. L. Walton of East Dixfield; two sisters. Mrs. Ella Smith of East Dixfield and Mrs. Winnefred Adams of Dixfield, and several aunts and cousins.

The deceased was the youngest son of G. M. and Eliza (Bean) Walton who were many years residents of East Dixfield. Mr. Walton was a member of Mystic Valley Grange.

Published Lewiston Daily Sun 23 Jan 1933.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MML5-6BT : accessed 2 July 2020), Ralph E Walton in household of Greenleaf Walton, Dixfield Town Dixfield village, Oxford, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 185, sheet 10B, family 248, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,596.

• "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCNX-7GF : 27 November 2014), Ralph E Walton and Lelia A Holman, 25 Jul 1915; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, State Archives, Augusta

• "Maine, World War I Draft Registration Index, 1917-1919," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HM-T5HG : 15 March 2018), Ralph Emerson Walton, 1917-1919; citing Draft Registration, East Dixfield, Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States, Maine State Archives, Augusta; FHL microfilm 005756426

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM8T-F47 : accessed 2 July 2020), Ralph E Walton, Wilton, Franklin, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 36, sheet 31A, line 15, family 781, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 832; FHL microfilm 2,340,567

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2B1-DR5Q : 5 June 2019), Ralph Emerson Walton, ; Burial, Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States of America, Riverside Cemetery; citing record ID 174691318, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "Ralph E. Walton," obituary, Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, Maine), 24 January 1933, p. 11, col. 1; online images, Google" (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IT5EXw6i2GUC&dat=19330123&printsec=frontpage&hl=en : accessed 22 April 2022).

• "Ralph E. Walton," funeral notice, Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, Maine), 25 January 1933, p. 9, col. 3; online images, Google" (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=IT5EXw6i2GUC&dat=19330125&printsec=frontpage&hl=en : accessed 22 April 2022).