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William M. Walton
William Martin Walton (January 17, 1832 – July 1, 1915) was a prominent lawyer in Austin, Texas. During the Civil War, Walton was a Major in the Confederate Army. After the War, he was elected Attorney General of the state and also headed the state Democratic Party. At the time of his death, Walton was one of the most respected lawyers in Texas.
==Early life==
William Martin “Buck” Walton, the son of Samuel Walker Walton and Mary Wilkerson Lowe Walton, was born near Canton, Mississippi on January 17, 1832. Walton had three brothers (George, Philip and Jesse) and a sister, Mary. "Buck" was a nickname given to Walton by his brother, George, and was used throughout his life. In 1834, the Walton family moved to Carroll County, newly created from Indian lands in the Choctaw Session. When Walton was just seven years old, Samuel Walker Walton died. His widow Mary remarried to Benjamin C. Strange. Benjamin and Mary Strange and the family moved to Texas in 1844 where the four Walton boys stayed only one year before going back to Mississippi, where Walton received a share of his late father’s estate. Mr. Strange died in 1848 and Mary in 1849.
When he was seventeen, Walton was appointed Deputy District Clerk and in about two years saved enough money to go to the University of Virginia, where he studied law. He did not graduate before returning to Carroll County. In Carrollton, Will began to read law, studying with the firm of William Cothran and James Z. George.〔 In the fall of 1852, he was granted his license and given permission to practice law by a special enabling act of the legislature since he was not yet 21.〔 After his licensing, Walton, and his only surviving brother George, decided to sell their father’s land and move to Austin, Texas.
While in Carrollton, Walton met and grew to love seventeen-year-old Lettie Watkins whose parents, Dr. Thomas A. Watkins and Sarah Epes Fitzgerald Watkins, had a plantation nearby. Will asked Lettie to marry him and go with him to Texas but her parents withheld their permission. Despondent, young Walton started on his way out of Mississippi but, after a day or two, came back to Carrollton to ask again, resulting in a secret engagement.
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