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Elizabeth Walton, Portrayed by Kami Cotler

Elizabeth Tyler Walton Cutler
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Family Zebulon Walton (Grandfather),†
Esther Walton (Grandmother),
Benjamin Walton (uncle)†,
John Walton (Father),
Olivia Walton (Mother),
John-Boy Walton,
Jason Walton,
Ben Walton,
Jim-Bob Walton
Joseph Walton† (brothers),
Mary-Ellen Walton,
Erin Walton, (sisters)
Drew Cutler (husband),
Joyce Culter (Daugther)


Actor Kami Cotler
Status Alive

Elizabeth Tyler Walton (born October 1927), Elizabeth is the youngest daughter of the Walton family. Throughout the series, we see her grow from a very young child into a young woman. She is outspoken, very sensitive, and shares John-Boy's love and talent for reading and writing.

Her friend is Aimee Godsey, her distant cousin and is Ike and Corabeth's Adoptive daughter. Elizabeth's other best friends are her siblings. She admires her sisters and heeds their advice, as she loves and respects her brothers. At the beginning of the series, it shows that Elizabeth is closest to her brother, and youngest of John and Olivia’s son’s, Jim-Bob.

Throughout the show, Elizabeth goes through the trials and errors of early adulthood and teenage years. When beginning her teenage years, Elizabeth is frightened at the thought of growing up, which trigged an episode where a Poltergeist messes with her daily life on Walton’s Mountain, until she finally grows into the idea of growing up.

She becomes romantically involved with Drew Cutler, Drew and Elizabeth enjoyed their first date when his close friend, and Elizabeth’s initial love interest turned her down and took someone else to a school dance at the Baldwin’s. They pursue their relationship throughout the rest of the series. Drew goes away to college. Drew later returns to Walton's Mountain to work in the mill, and Elizabeth tells her father that she will eventually marry Drew. In the series, Drew and Elizabeth fought when he felt, at a too young age to enlist, he was meant to join the service. Upset with the fact that all of her brothers were enrolled, and scared of losing any of the leading men in her life, she talked Drew out of his compulsive behavior.

In earlier seasons, Elizabeth traditionally wears her hair in signature braids, but as she grows into a young adult, she wears it down, out of braids and styled. Elizabeth has a mind of her own, is not easily swayed into doing the wrong thing by others. She is a very kind, cute, sweet and loving girl that tends to be teased when she says something wrong or silly. She had a doll that accompanied her when she was lonely, as well as an imaginary friend for a short time when she was sick of being the youngest Walton. She was imaginative when she colored, drew pictures and she never gave up. She loved her parents and grandparents who loved her back.

Trivia[]

  • The actress that played Elizabeth was 6 years old when she was cast in the role, Kami Cotler also played the role of Elizabeth in the movie “The Homecoming”, and following Movies.
  • The character of Elizabeth Walton is based on Earl Hamner, Jr.'s younger sister Nancy Hamner Jameson.
  • Kami Cotler’s siblings often appeared on the show as extras.
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