A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--page 1072
Aaron Acton, of Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Ind., is one of the old soldiers from Indiana who fought in over thirty battles in the late Civil War, and shed glory upon the name of Indiana's volunteers. He was born in Ripley County, Ind., July 22, 1839, and is a son of Aaron and Mary A. (Woodfell) Acton, and was reared to farming and carpentering, and worked at his trade in Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and other states, and finally located in Hendricks County, Ind., in February, 1861, on August 13 of which year he enlisted, at Belleville, in Company B, Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three years, and served until honorably discharged at Indianapolis, March 17, 1865, with the rank of sergeant, after having taken part in over thirty battles and endured many months of incarceration in rebel prisons, in which his weight was reduced from 165 to ninety-three pounds, and after having been wounded six times. After his return to Hendricks County he was confined to his bed by sickness for several months, and then resumed his trade, which he followed ten years. January 31, 1869, Mr. Acton was united in marriage at Clayton, Ind., with Amanda I., daughter of Samuel B. and Mary A. Hall, and the result of this marriage is one child, still living—Glenrose. Mr. and Mrs. Acton are both members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Acton is a member of the I.O.O.F. and the G.A.R.