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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items) |
Abstract | The collection includes family correspondence, 1830s to 1890s, deeds, indentures, and other papers of Thomas George Walton, his wife Eliza Murphy Walton, and other members of the Walton and Murphy families, all of Morganton, Burke County, N.C. Included are letters from John H. Murphy, student at the University of North Carolina, 1843-1847; correspondence between Thomas George Walton and Eliza Murphy Walton while he was serving with the Confederate Army in Virginia and Tennessee; earlier land grants, deeds, and family letters; postwar correspondence of Walton concerning law and politics; and a typed transcription of his historical sketch of Burke County, N.C., containing biographies of early pioneers. Correspondents include Tod R. Caldwell, Kemp P. Battle, and Bishop Theodore B. Lyman. |
Creator | Walton, Thomas George, 1815-1905. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Rebecca Hollingsworth, October 1992
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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Thomas George Walton (1815-1905) was the son of Thomas Walton, a Morganton, N.C., merchant. He married Eliza Murphy (1820-1886), daughter of John Hugh Murphy and Margaret Avery Murphy of Willow Hill Plantation, Burke County, N.C. For several years, he also served as the guardian of his wife's younger siblings, the grandchildren of Captain James Murphy.
Thomas George Walton was appointed president of the board of directors of the Morganton Branch of the Bank of North Carolina in 1859. During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate Army in Virginia and Tennessee. Hw was appointed vice president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society in 1871, director for the Eastern Division of the Western North Carolina Rail Road in 1873, and trustee of the State Hospital for the Insane in 1897.
Lucy Walton, daughter of Thomas George and Eliza Murphy Walton, married Rev. Neilson Falls.
Back to TopFamily correspondence, 1830s to 1890s, deeds, indentures, and other papers of Thomas George Walton, his wife, Eliza Murphy Walton, and other members of the Walton and Murphy families, all of Morganton, Burke County, N.C., Included are letters from John H. Murphy, student at the University of North Carolina, 1843-1847; correspondence between Thomas George Walton and Eliza Murphy Walton while he was serving with the Confederate Army in Virginia and Tennessee; earlier land grants, deeds, and family letters; postwar correspondence of Walton concerning law and politics; and a typed transcription of his historical sketch of Burke County, N.C., containing biographies of early pioneers. Correspondents include Tod R. Caldwell, Kemp P. Battle, and Bishop Theodore B. Lyman.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Deeds, indentures, and family letters of Thomas George Walton of Morganton, N.C., his wife Eliza Murphy Walton, and other members of the Murphy and Walton families. Early papers, 1779-1833, consist of deeds, records of land surveyed, land grants from the state of North Carolina, and other papers concerning property in Burke County. Most of these papers pertain to Captain James Murphy, grandfather of Eliza Murphy Walton.
Letters consist of those written to Eliza Murphy while a student in Pittsboro, N.C., mostly from her mother, Margaret S. Collett, and stepfather, John Collett; correspondence between Eliza Murphy and her sister Lauretta, who married Alexander F. Gaston; letters, 1843-1847, from John H. Murphy at the University of North Carolina; correspondence among Eliza Murphy Walton, Thomas George Walton, and his sister Harriet, mostly concerning family news, the health of family members, and local events; and a few letters about state politics, 1859, to Thomas George Walton from Tod R. Caldwell, then serving in the state legislature.
Folder 1 |
1779-1797 |
Folder 2 |
1798-1805 |
Folder 3 |
1806-1814 |
Folder 4 |
1815-1818 |
Folder 5 |
1820-1824 |
Folder 6 |
1825-1833 |
Folder 7 |
1834-1835 |
Folder 8a |
1836-1840 |
Folder 8b |
1841-1843 |
Folder 9 |
1844-1847 |
Folder 10 |
1848-1853 |
Folder 11 |
1854-1858 |
Folder 12 |
1859-1860 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Postwar papers of Thomas George Walton and his children. Correspondence consists mostly of business letters of Walton, his sons John M. "Jock", George, and E. S., and his son-in-law Neilson Falls, the husband of Walton's daughter Lucy. There are a few family letters from Walton's sons to their father and to each other; routine letters from Kemp P. Battle, concerning the preparation of a biographical sketch of Governor Tod R. Caldwell; many business letters addressed to Thomas George Walton from various merchants; and letters to Neilson Falls from Theodore B. Lyman, Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina.
Other papers include certificates appointing Thomas George Walton vice president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, 1871; director for the Eastern Division of the Western North Carolina Rail Road, 1873; and trustee of the State Hospital for the Insane, 1897.
Volumes are an account book, 1868-1869, of Thomas George Walton, and a typed copy of "Sketches of the Pioneers in Burke County History," Walton's reminiscences, prepared in 1893 for the Morganton Herald.
Folder 13 |
1861 |
Folder 14 |
1862 |
Folder 15 |
1863-1867 |
Folder 16 |
1868-1872 |
Folder 17 |
1873-1876 |
Folder 18 |
1877-1880 |
Folder 19 |
1881-1883 |
Folder 20 |
1884-1891 |
Folder 21 |
1892-1897 |
Folder 22-23
Folder 22Folder 23 |
Undated |
Folder 24 |
Volume 1: Thomas George Walton account book. |
Folder 25 |
Volume 2: "Sketches of the Pioneers in Burke County History" |
Reel M-748/1 |
Microfilm |