Richard Carton

    Richard Carton, farmer, is a native of Illinois, and a son of James and Ellen Carton, natives of Ireland, and pioneers of Ottawa County, Illinois, where they located in 1852, and subsequently died.

    Richard Carton was married at Vincennes, Indiana to Miss Mattie Parker, daughter of James Parker, a pioneer of this county, where Mrs. Mattie Carton was born. Mr. Carton located on his present home, where he owned 160 acres in 1873, and to which he afterward added eighty acres, the place now comprising 210 acres of excellent land. Mr. and Mrs. Carton have been blessed with four children -Nellie, Mary, James and Ralph (twins).

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.