Walter Aston (Burgess)

Lieutenant Colonel Walter Aston (c.1606–April 6, 1656) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in the first half of the 17th century.

Biography

Aston was born in England and may have been descended from the Astons of Staffordshire.

Aston represented Shirley Hundred Island for the first time from 1629 to 1630. He continued to be a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1631–1632, 1632–1633, 1641, 1642-1643. By the time he died on April 6, 1656 he was a Lt. Col. Aston was buried at the original Westover Parish Church, Charles City County, Virginia. He was buried at Westover Parish Church (in the cemetery on the grounds west of Westover Plantation, not in the graveyard next to the new church).[1]

Family

Aston married twice, first to a woman whose maiden name was Warbowe then to Hannah Jordan who outlived him. She later married Col. Edward Hill. His son, Walter Aston, Jr. (died January 29, 1666), is buried near his father.[1]

Aston is buried near the original site of the Westover Church next to Theodorick Bland of Westover[2] and near Benjamin Harrison.

References

  1. 1 2 kimshockey (reb) (July 5, 2003), Col Walter Aston (Memorial# 7656547), Find a Grave, retrieved November 2013
  2. ↑ Bland, Theodorick (1840), "Appendix", in Campbell, Charles, The Bland papers: Being a Selection from the Manuscripts of Colonel Theodorick Bland Jr. of Prince George County Virginia I, Petersburg, Virginia: Edmund & Julian C. Ruffin, pp. 145–149


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