Descendant of Lawrence Walton (Bn: abt 1671 - Dd: 20 Jun 1726) and Margarat (Mary) Smith (Bn: ??? - Dd: bef 1726)The Walton Burial Ground It was near the end of the seventeenth century, on a farm abutting on the famous Norwich Northeast Corner Bound and covering lands in both of the ancient towns of Norwich and Preston, now know as the northern part of Griswold, that Lawrence and Mary (Smith) Walton settled and made their home. They were poor and illiterate; their first child, John, born in 1694, was a genius who in spite of birth and poverty became an educated and a somewhat famous man; the other children did not rise above the respectable mediocrity of their parents. Here and on lands adjoining, Waltons, descendants of Lawrence and Mary lived and died for more than a hundred and fifty years; but now the family has long been extinct in Griswold. About a quarter of a mile northeast of the dwelling house on the Sea, Henry Johnson farm, now owned by Dorthea Ihloff, on a small plateau well within the bounds of the ancient Norwich Nine Miles Square, and gathered among a scattered grove of pines, is a cluster of ancient graves known as the Walton Burying Ground, and here on what is supposed was once Walton land, the Waltons laid their dead. About thirty graves can still be made out marked by rude stones slabs gathered from the fields.For the most part these stones bear no marks of identification of those laid here; one, however, reveals the grave of the wife of Nathaniel Walton, the brother of John the scholar, for crudely hammered on the stone by an unskilled hand are rude characters which spell out the following.INSCRIPTIONSeptember ye 18 1759Then died TheeWife NathanielWalton FameJemimaFrom a book on "Cemeteries in Griswold,Ct." Griswold Librarypgs 202 & 203