Josiah Walton, farmer and stock dealer, District No. 8, Sumner County, was born there in 1829. He is one of nine children of Josiah, Sr., and Sarah (Walker) Walton. The father, of Welsh origin, was born in Sumner County in August, 1788, and was chairman of the county court several years, and private secretary of Andrew Jackson in 1818. He died in August, 1857. The mother, of Irish origin, was born in Davidson County in 1792, and died in May, 1876. With a common school training our subject began clerking, at his majority, in a grocery in Nashville. In October, 1868, he married Mary F., daughter of Jas. R and Nancy A. Drake, and born in Davidson County in 1850. Their children are Mary A., Sarah P. and Suella, all in school; and Hattie L. (deceased), William I., Emma E., and Laura E. (deceased). Mr. Walton served in Company B, Ninth Tennessee Cavalry, of the Confederate Army, enlisting in 1862. A Whig in politics previous to the war, he became a Democrat. From 1876 to 1882 he served as justice of the peace. Mr. Walton and two daughters, Mary and Sarah, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.