John Hunter Walton

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!BIRTH: CHRISTENING: MARRIAGE: Pedrigree chart supplied by W. Murray Sanders. DEATH: BURIAL:

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NOTES: According to W. Murray Sanders: "Hunter Walton for many years headed Hunter Walton & Company, also in the early days a prime factor in the butter and egg trade along with Droste & Snyder. One of the Walton's was a member of Antoinette Droste's wedding party when she married A. Hall Berry. The Walton's were a well know family also. His mother had important Boston connections." Letter from W. Murray Sanders, 30 September 1990.

J. Hunter Walton Services, were held for J. Hunter Walton, 72, oFMontelair and West Hyannisporl, MA on April 5, at the First Congregational Church of Montclair. ; , Mr! Walton died on March 31 in the Mountainside Hospital, Glen Ridge. .

" ' He retired in 1981 as chairman of Hunter' Walton & Company (the country's oldest dairy, merchant company, established ' in 1827), located in N.Y.C; and Jersey City. - Mr. Walton was a member of the First Congregational Church of Montclair; the Montclair Golf Club; the Hyaniiisport Golf Club and the St. Regis Hunting Fishing Club of New York. Born in Brooklyn, New York,' he lived in Montclair.

for 50 years. Mr. Walton was the father of the late David Barclay Walton of Rjrlgcwood. ; Surviving are his wife, Jean Berry Walton of Montclair; two sons, J. Hunter- Walton, Jr. and Bruce H. Walton, both of Boston, MA..