Wiley S. Halton

    Wiley S. Halton, Sheriff of Morgan County, is a native of Owen County, Indiana, 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 (Morgan) 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.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.