Anne Walton

AUDITED 5 Aug 2026 (revised the same day - a citation from S3322 has now been attached; see the closing paragraph, which replaces the one that said none had been) - [3217] ANNE WALTON: the day and month have been REMOVED from her death, and this note records why. HER DEATH NOW READS 1836, not 13 April 1836. Nothing was substituted for the removed precision - this is a reduction to what is actually supported, not a new claim. TWO INDEPENDENT REASONS, both checked on 5 Aug 2026: 1. SHE OUTLIVED HIM, so his death date cannot be hers. Revolutionary War pension file S3322 (William Edwards, VA; transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris) carries a Treasury annotation: "A Treasury-Department document states that Martin Walton, attorney for Anna Edwards, WIDOW of William Edwards, received the final pension payment up to his death on 13 April 1836." A widow receiving arrears is alive after the death that generated them. Provenance limit: this is the transcriber's note ABOUT a Treasury document not reproduced in the file - an informant about a record, not the record. 2. THE DAY AND MONTH ARE NOT IN THE SOURCE THE TREE COPIED FROM. Find A Grave memorial 145010474 (William Edwards) carries deathDate "13 Apr 1836"; memorial 145010525 (Anne Walton Edwards) carries deathDate "1836" - a bare YEAR, no day, no month. Both pages were parsed directly. So the tree held a precision its own likely copy-source never had. HER DEATH IS THEREFORE UNRESOLVED beyond the year, which is the honest state rather than a gap to be filled. ☞ A PREDICTED DEFECT CLASS WORTH A QUERY OF ITS OWN: anywhere in this tree where a wife's death is a bare YEAR in the source but a FULL DATE in the database, the same transplant may have happened. ✪ MARTIN WALTON IS PROBABLY HER KINSMAN, and this is why S3322 is now cited to her as well as to her husband. He appears TWICE in the file - as an affiant in 1833 ("We Martin Walton aged 71 last october ... we belonged to the same regiment") and as the widow's attorney in 1836 - and he carries her maiden surname. That is circumstantial support for the tree's Walton identification, which was previously uncited; it is not proof, and no parent has been created for her. ⛔ WHAT REMAINS AGENT-DRAFT AND IS STILL NOT CITED TO ANYONE (this paragraph replaces the earlier one stating that NO S3322 citation had been attached): the Hempstead Co., Ark. marriage register entry for [1247], where two independent abstracts disagree on the month - the 1961 Texarkana Pioneer Family Histories reads 22 September 1825 and the USGenWeb courthouse abstract reads 22 May 1825 - and the Culley parentage for [121], every element of which traces to that same 1961 compilation. Neither has been personally re-read, and neither is cited.