226                 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY


when he went with a two-horse team across the country to Iowa, being
eighteen days on the road. Locating about two miles north of Des
Moines, he was there living when the commissioners located the site for
the present state capitol. There were then no railways in the state, and
the people had to haul their produce to the Mississippi river, a distance of
one hundred and fifty miles. He put in one crop, living there until June,
1853, when he returned to Clay county, settled in section nineteen, Lewis
township and built the log house in which the family lived until he
replaced it with a frame house several years later. In 1885 Mr. Luther
moved with his family to Clay City, but a few months afterwards returned
to Lewis township, locating on the farm which he had previously pur-
chased and has since made this his home.
    On April 10, 1850, Mr. Luther married Sarah Wilson, who was born
in Putnam county, Indiana, December 8, 1831, a daughter of William
Wilson. Her grandfather, Thomas Wilson, was a pioneer settler of
Woodford county, Kentucky, locating there when the Indians were plen-
tiful and hostile towards the whites, being so very aggressive that while
he was at work clearing the land his wife, who was an expert shot, had
to watch for the foe with a rifle, On the farm that he cleared he spent
the remainder of his life. His wife survived him and came to Indiana
to live with her children, and died in Sullivan county at the remarkable
age of one hundred and four years. William Wilson was born in Wood-
ford county, Kentucky, and in Bourbon county, that state, married Ellen
Hathman. About 1830 he came with his wife and eight children to Put-
nam county, Indiana, locating two and one-half miles east of Greencastle,
where he lived a number of seasons. In 1839 he settled in Pierson town-
ship, Vigo county, but a few years later sold out and moved to Nevins
township, Vigo county, where he remained until 1852. Selling out in
that year he went to Warren county, Iowa, where he resided until his
death in the summer of 1853. His widow survived him, dying in 1854.
    Mr. and Mrs. Luther have one son, Jacob Luther. He was born
November 7, 1852, in Nevins township, Vigo county. He married Randy
Crist, who was born in Lewis township, a daughter of Henry W. and
Lucinda Crist. Genevra, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Luther,
married Charles Boston, of Sullivan county, and they have two children,
Jerrold Judson and Madeline. When Jerrold Judson Boston was an
infant he had four great-grandfathers living, and his picture, with his
father, two grandfathers and the four great-grandfathers, was taken,
forming a group interesting to others aside from the immediate family
and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Luther are highly esteemed and respected,
and are worthy members of the United Brethren church.

    HERBERT E. SUTTON.—Among the sturdy, energetic and successful
agriculturists of Clay county who are thorough masters of their calling
and are therefore enabled to follow it with profit to themselves and the
general progress of the community is Herbert E. Sutton, of Harrison
township, who is widely and favorably known individually and as presi-
dent of the Clay County Farmers’ Institute. A son of Alonzo Sutton and
descendant of a pioneer family, he was born on the 5th of November,
1870, being a native of Putnam county, Indiana. David Sutton, his
grandfather, came to Indiana from Ohio in 1855, and after residing
for a time in Jackson township, Clay county, purchased a tract of timber
land in Washington township, Putnam county, where he subsequently