Dea. Walter Colton is buried with his wife: Thankful Cobb, whom died Jun 7 1843, age 72 years. Walter was age 97 when he died.
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Deacon Walter Colton, b. 25 August, 1764, Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, d. 28 April, 1862, Georgia, Vermont. He was the son of Deacon Aaron Colton and Mary Ely. He married Thankful Cobb, daughter of Lieut. John Cobb, of Hardwick, Massachusetts, she died 7 June, 1843.

"He was a man of naturally moral fibre, passionately fond of music and proficient in its art and science, his violincello was for a half century a great factor in the village church choir, and a source of great pleasure and elevation in the home circle. He loved good literature and had a keen sense of the beautiful and pure in good books, and cultivated a fine literary taste up to the measure of his opportunity and means. But the crowning excellence of his character, was his deep and fervent love of the Bible and his wonderful knowledge of its contents. He seemed to know it from beginning to end. He could repeat literally the whole of four Gospels, the Psalms, and other of its books, and never failed to give a ready answer to questions as to chapter and verse of any passage asked, and his master memory enabled him to continue his accustomed leadership in the round of church duty, after age had dimmed his sight so that he could no longer read the printed page."

Ref: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Quartermaster George Colton, 1644-1911, Collected and arranged from all available public and private sources by George Woolworth Colton; Printed for Private Circulation by John Milton Colton, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1912, (QGC) pp. 116-117.