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.