"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
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN
PAGE 252
W. W. HELTON, farmer and stock-raiser, was born October 25, 1807, in East
Tennessee, and is the fifth of the eight children of Beecher and Susan
(Winkler) Helton, natives of North Carolina, and respectively of English and
German extraction. After the death of his father, our subject moved with
his mother to Kentucky, where he was reared on a farm. In 1828, he came to
this county and entered the land on which he now resides--having once owned
310 acres in the county, and now has 190. For several years he followed the
trade of a shoemaker. September 6, 1827, he married Miss Nancy Hale, of
Tennessee, with an issue of ten children--James B., Eliza J., Julia A.,
Harriet L. (deceased), Sarah E. (deceased), Mary C., Nancy (deceased),
Miranda (deceased), John W. and Susan C. Mr. Helton is a strong Democrat,
having first voted for Gen. Jackson; he also took an active part in the
late Grange movement. He is a worthy citizen, and has the blessed record of
a well-spent life. He and wife have been members for fifty years of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
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