Silas Wilton was born in Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas, on December 16, 1874. Silas' father, Thomas Abslum Wilton, was born in Marion, Illinois, but died at the early age of 45 in Jack County, Texas, when Silas was just 25 years old.

Silas married Mary Betty Underwood in 1898. Silas and Betty moved to Greer County, Oklahoma before 1900. Their first son, Carless Carl was born in 1900, in Greer, Co.

Silas bought 10 shares in the Blalock Colony in 1902. He, Betty and Carless went with the first group of immigrants leaving Oklahoma in February 1903. Betty's sister, Clementine, and husband, William Wallace Snell, were also in this group.

Their second child, Cora Belle was born in Chamal in 1903, and was the first American child born on Chamal. Their second son, Ruel "Roy" Calvin was born in 1905 on Chamal.

Their time in the Chamal Valley was short. Prior to 1908, Silas and Betty moved to Sabinal, Uvalde County, Texas, where their daughter Eula "Nola" Magnolia was born in 1908. Silas and Betty had another daughter, Silvia Leora, who was born in 1911, but lived for only ten months and nine days. In 1913, they had another daughter, Vellma Wilton.

Silas and his family lived in Uvalde County for the next dozen years or so before moving to Huntington Beach, Orange County, CA in the early 1920's.

Betty kept in touch with the Chamal people, as noted by her open letter to the editor of the Chamal Record in July of 1912.

Silas died March 3, 1935, in Huntington Beach, California, at the age of 60. Betty later married Floyd Abbott and died about 10 years later in Huntington Beach, on January 1, 1945.