Individual Notes

Note for: Sarah Gregory, 1787 - 4 DEC 1861 Index

Burial:
Place: Danforth Cem.,,Greene Co.,MO

Individual Notes

Note for: William F. Dillard, 1 MAY 1782 - 13 APR 1877 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Danforth Cem.,,Greene Co.,MO

Individual Note:
     William and Sarah moved to Knox Co., KY about 1811, and from there to Monroe
Co., TN in 1820. They lived there until 1837, when they moved to Greene Co.,
MO.

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Love Dillard, 9 MAY 1807 - 28 JAN 1885 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Lower Lake Cem.

Individual Note:
     Mary Love Dillard was born 9 May 1807 in Buncombe County, NC. She married
Horace Snow (born TN). The Snows stayed in MO for about 20 years before making
the long trek to CA in 1856, with two of Mary's brothers, Stephen and Samuel.
Horace died at Napa, CA just two months after their arrival. In 1864 Mary
moved, with the family of her son Matthew, to a farm five miles south of Lower
Lake on the Spruce Grove Road in Lake Co., where she spent the rest of her
life. She was the mother of 14, 8 of whom accompanied her to CA.

Individual Notes

Note for: John McCord Dillard, 16 AUG 1813 - 12 JUN 1893 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Civil Bend Cem.,,Winston,OR

Individual Note:
     John M. Dillard was born 16 Aug 1813 in Knox Co., KY and married Jane Martin on
22 jan 1832 in Monroe Co., TN. He was a preacher and married two of his
brothers, George and William. An Oregon historian writes: John M. Dillard was a
farmer, mechanic and Presbyterian minister. One time (in MO) the Rev. Dillard
had been out conducting a series of evangelistic services. When he returned
home, he found a cyclone had come along and damaged their farm. The family
decided they would leave Missouri. Reverand Dillard made three wagons in which
they crossed the plains in 1850. When the wagon train reached the mountain
country the following fall, the snow storms had begun. The feed for the loose
stock along the way was covered by the snow. While traveling through the Blue
Mountains into eastern Oregon, all the cattle but one died from eating poisoned
laurel rhododendron.The surviving animal was used to carry the Dillard's
feather bed on to their destination.
The Dillard and Burnett families lived on French Prairie, four miles east of
the present site of Salem, from the fall of 1850 to the middle of the spring of
1851. Mrs Jane Dillard was a tailoress and obtained employment in a local store
as a seamstress. She was paid $10.00 a pair for making men's buckskin trousers.
She worked at that type of work while her husband and James D. Burnett wdere at
the gold mines in CA.
After returning from the gold fields, John paid $800. in gold dust for 640
acres in the Valley of the South Umpqua River and settled on the site of the
future town to which he was to give his name, Dillard, OR. He organized a
Presbyterian Church, a private school and was the town's first postmaster.

Individual Notes

Note for: Samuel Dillard, 1811 - 1891 Index

Individual Note:
Samuel Dillard, born 1811 in Knox Co., KY, married Elizabeth Julian on 8 Dec
1831 in Monroe Co., TN. Samuel was a preacher, he went with his brother William
to the CA gold fields in 1849, where they "struck it rich". Later he joined
brother Stephen for the trip to CA, then to OR where he finally settled, two
miles from Cottage Grove in Lane Co.

Individual Notes

Note for: Robert Deering Dillard, 8 DEC 1816 - 25 MAY 1899 Index

Burial:
Place: Palmetto Cem.,,GREENE,MO

Individual Notes

Note for: Amanda Jane Dillard, 8 DEC 1823 - 10 JUL 1906 Index

Burial:
Place: Pontiac Cem.