604     HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY.
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of his success in life. To this union were born two sons and one
daughter. The eldest son, Henry, is a farmer and resides on a
farm in Owen Township. The next son, Jim, is associated with
the Judge in the practice of law. The daughter is the wife of
W. L. (Coon) Benton, and resides in St. Louis, Mo. In Novem-
ber, 1853, Judge A. came to Jackson County, where he has ever
since resided and practiced his profession, except when holding
official positions. He was judge of the common pleas court from
October, 1860, until August, 1862, when he resigned and entered 
the army as captain of Company K, Sixty-seventh Indiana Vol-
unteers, but resigned the following April on account of physical
disability. In 1864 he returned to the practice of law. In 1867
he was elected county auditor, and in 1870 re-elected, holding
that office eight years. He is now engaged in the practice of
his profession, and has a large and lucrative business. But few
men in this section of the State are more widely and favorably
known than Judge Applewhite. As a lawyer he stands at the
head of his profession.
 
REV. WALTER BENTON, a minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Brownstown, was born near Geneva, Ontario
Co., N. Y., May 7, 1799. His father and mother, David and
Sarah Benton, raised a family of seven children: Henry, George,
Walter, William, Norman, Sarah and Mary. In April, 1819, Mr.
David Benton, with his family, left Olean, N. Y., for the then
"far West," sailing down the Alleghany and Ohio Rivers, land-
ing near Charlestown and locating at Brownstown, this county.
The next year young Walter returned to New York on horseback,
making the trip of 650 miles in twenty-one days, in order to
make some collections. He came back to Indiana, and near the
close of the same year (1820) he made another trip to New York
on horseback, and married Miss Elizabeth Coe. Returning to
their Western home Mrs. Benton soon died, leaving one son-
Albert. In 1824 Mr. Benton married Mrs. Hettie Banks, nee
Vermilya, and by this marriage were nine children: George,
John, Wilbur, Charles, Asbury, Walter, Phebe, Kate and Eva.
Their mother died November 6, 1875, and the following year Mr.
Benton married Mrs. Mary J. Daly, daughter of John and Nancy
Freese. Mr. Benton has now passed a life of half a century as