A Portrait and Biographical Record of Hendricks County (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1895)--page 1067
William Hylton, of Lincoln Township, Hendricks County, Ind., is a native of Carroll County, Va., and was born July 5, 1829. His father, Samuel Hylton, was also a native of the same county and state, and was born in 1805. In 1835 the latter gentleman came to Indiana and located near Cartersburg, Hendricks County, but in 1837 purchased eighty acres in Washington Township, in the same county, which land he cleared, cultivated and resided upon the remainder of his days. He was the father of six children, named as follows: William, Wesley (deceased), Eli (deceased), Timanda J. (wife of William Hadley, of Washington Township), Stephen (who was a member of Company C, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and died in the service) and Nancy C. (who married John F. Franklin, and with her husband deceased). The father of this family departed this life in 1842.
William Hylton was reared in Indiana on the home place until 1852, when he purchased a farm in Washington Township, Hendricks County, on which he resided until 1856, when he bought eighty acres of his present place, on which he has made all the improvements and which he has increased to 147 acres. In 1851 Mr. Hylton married Margaret, daughter of John Barlow, of Montgomery County, Ind., and to this union have been born the following children: Martha (deceased), John S. (deceased), Allie (wife of H.A. Smith), Mary (deceased), Viola (wife of William A. Smith), Charles W. (deceased), Lilly B. (married to R.C. Smith), Maggie and William H. In politics Mr. Hylton is an ardent Republican and in 1879 was elected county commissioner; he stands high socially and is a member of the Brownsburg lodge, No. 188, I.O.O.F., and a charter member of the encampment. He is also a member of the White Lick Presbyterian Church, and he and family enjoy the regard and respect of all their neighbors.