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JOSEPH WALTON (PRICE)
from Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers,
© 1999, The National Society for Sons of Utah Pioneers, Vol IV, p 2654-2656

Born: 17 Sep 1829, Whitbourne, Hereford, England Parents: Thomas and Jane Rowley Colley Walton (Price) Died: 27 Nov 1916, American Fork, Utah, Utah Arrived in Valley: 19 Aug 1853, Moses Clawson Co.

Married 1st: Jane Burriston (Barriston)-No children
Date: 30 Dec 1851, Bromyard Parish, Hereford, England (Div?)
Married 2nd: Ann Thompson
Date: 29 Oct 1854, Mill Creek, Salt Lake, Utah
Born: 27 Feb 1820, Litchfield, Stafford, England
Died: 24 Feb 1912, Alpine, Utah, Utah

Joseph left little record of his early days. The reason for the "Price" after his name apparently comes from his father whose surname was Price but his father went by the name of Walton, which was his mother's surname.

Joseph married Jane in England and they sailed for America a year later. The ship was stuck on a sandbar for nine days before the passengers were transferred to a river boat. Jane ran off with another man in New Orleans and he never heard of her again. Joseph worked off his passage going up the Mississippi River on the steam boat.

In the spring of 1853 he joined the Clawson company to come west, driving an ox team and wagon to pay his way. Upon their arrival in Salt Lake, Joseph went to work for a farmer and earned enough potatoes and vegetables to last him, his parents, two brothers and a sister through the winter. His family arrived in October 1853. They lived in a dugout that first winter.

In 1854, Joseph was called to help bring some of the emigrants west. He met his future wife in the drive and they were married shortly after. They went to Alpine to live. He helped construct a fort and farmed. He served as a police officer in Alpine for a time and was a bell ringer at the church for 25 years.

Children of 2nd wife:
JOSEPH BENJAMIN "JB" b. 10 Oct 1855, Alpine, Utah, Utah. Md. 31 Oct 1877, Emma Louise Jaques. D. 29 Apr 1935, Provo, Utah.
JOHN JAMES, b. 7 Feb 1858, Alpine, Utah. Md. I Jul 1880, Anna Catherine Bissell. D. 22 May 1931, Salt Lake City, Utah.
THOMAS HEBER, b. I Nov 1860, Alpine, Utah. Md. 17 Jan 1884, Mary Eliza Bateman. D. 24 May 1930, American Fork, Utah.
ALMA THOMPSON, b. 30 Mar 1864, Alpine, Utah. D. 20 May, 1864. Child.

Submitted by: Royal Oakes

Joseph married Jane at the end of December, 1851. Their voyage aboard the Kennebec began just a few days later, January XX, 1852, the next year, not a "year later."

The separation of Joseph and Ann is unsubstantiated until the spring of 1853. Jane is listed among the travellers in the Cyrus Wheelock company along with the Thomas Walton family. Joseph is identified among those in the Moses Clawson Company.