{"id":2380,"date":"2026-02-02T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:06:49","slug":"george-walton-died-in-augusta-georgia-on-february-2-1804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"George Walton Died in Augusta, Georgia, on February 2, 1804"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Walton died in Augusta, Georgia, on February 2, 1804.<\/strong> He was born near Farmville, Virginia, 1741, but his exact birth date is unknown. Representing Georgia, he signed the Declaration of Independence. He fought for his state militia during the Revolutionary War and was caught by the British in late 1778. He was imprisoned until September 1779, when he was exchanged for a British officer. After the war, he served as Georgia\u2019s governor, a United States senator, and the chief justice of Georgia\u2019s highest court. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/parkhistory\/online_books\/declaration\/bio50.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Walton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Walton died in Augusta, Georgia, on February 2, 1804. He was born near Farmville, Virginia, 1741, but his exact birth date is unknown. Representing Georgia, he signed the Declaration of Independence. He fought for his state militia during the Revolutionary War and was caught by the British in late 1778. He was imprisoned until <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2380' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3666,197,3664,3665,1276],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-augusta","tag-declaration-of-independence","tag-february-2","tag-george-walton","tag-georgia","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29080,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/29080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}