Walton family members

Samuel Moore Walton March 29, — April 5, was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club , which he started in Rogers, Arkansas , and Midwest City, Oklahoma , in and respectively.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. In at the age of 74, Walton died of blood cancer and was buried at the Bentonville Cemetery in his longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas. He lived there with his parents on their farm until However, farming did not provide enough money to raise a family, and Thomas Walton went into farm mortgaging. He worked for his brother's Walton Mortgage Company, which was an agent for Metropolitan Life Insurance, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] where he foreclosed on farms during the Great Depression.

He and his family now with another son, James , born in moved from Oklahoma. They moved from one small town to another for several years, mostly in Missouri. While attending eighth grade in Shelbina, Missouri , Sam became the youngest Eagle Scout in the state's history. Eventually the family moved to Columbia, Missouri. Growing up during the Great Depression, he did chores to help make financial ends meet for his family as was common at the time.

He milked the family cow, bottled the surplus, and drove it to customers. Afterwards, he would deliver Columbia Daily Tribune newspapers on a paper route. In addition, he sold magazine subscriptions. After high school, Walton decided to attend college, hoping to find a better way to help support his family. During this time, he worked various odd jobs, including waiting tables in exchange for meals.