"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
PAGE 187
WILEY S. HALTON (HALTOM), Sheriff of Morgan County, is a native of Owen
County, Ind., and was born April 28, 1843; he was reared in the county
of his birth, where, April 15, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Fourteenth
Indiana (three months') Volunteers, after which service he re-enlisted,
in October of the same year, in Company A, Fifty-ninth Indiana Volunteers,
and served in the following engagements: New Madrid, Corinth, Raymond,
Jackson, Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge and
Sherman's campaign through Georgia and to Washington. After his
discharge--July 25, 1865--he resumed farming in Owen County, at which he
continued three years, when he removed to this county and farmed until
1882, except four years passed at Eminence and Louisville, in this county.
December 7, 1867, he married Catherine Munday, with the result of five
children--Minnie, Alpha, Daisy, Ethel and Clarence (twins). In 1882,
Mr. Halton was elected Sheriff by the Republicans. He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, and also of the G. A. R. He owns a half interest in
a store and has other property in Louisville.
Data Entry Volunteer: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
This message was received 08/07/98
I note the biography of Wiley S. Halton. I am quite sure this should be
Wiley S. Haltom.
See the 1850 Owen Co. census, Jackson Township, Dwelling 569, Wiley S.
Haltom age 8 in household of his parents James W. Haltom and Rebecca Sugg.
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