On 9 August 1872, a Wilson County Superior Court judge ordered three year-old Adline Benton bound as an apprentice to Harrett Battle until she reached 21 years of age. She was to be trained as a house servant.
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United States Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939, database at https://familysearch.org.
Twenty-seven year-old John S. Benton of Wilson County enlisted in the Confederate Army on 28 June 1861 in Craven County, North Carolina. He was assigned to Company F, 4th North Carolina Infantry; was wounded at Seven Pines, Virginia, on 31 May 1862; and died of his wounds on 10 June 1862.
As administrator of Benton’s small estate, Willie Lamm filed this account of the sale of Benton’s property, which included “one Negroman Sezar.” The low price Caesar brought suggests that he was very old and/or infirm.
Estate File of John S. Benton (1863), Wilson County, North Carolina Estate Files 1663-1979, http://www.familysearch.org