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Note for:   Cynthia Caroline Dillard,   ABT 1825 - 1898         Index

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Burial:   
     Place:   Mammoth Cem.

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Note for:   Stephen Dillard,   10 MAR 1810 - 1867         Index

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Individual Note:
     Stephen Dillard, born 10 Mar 1810 in Buncombe Co., NC. Moved with the family to
MO. He lived on a farm 15 miles northwest of Springfield, MO. One of the
founders and first ruling elders of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church in 1839.
In 1852 he was captain of a wagon train starting to move west with his family.
They got as far as Kansas and had to turn back because of a cholera epidemic.
In April of 1856 they started out again, departing from the parents home place,
where they had come to bid farewell. There were two trains of about 25 wagons
each. Stephen was captain of one; brother-in-law Horace Snow of the other.
Stephens train had 18 teams of oxen, 6 or 8 horses and over 100 cattle.
Stephen's son George Milton Dillard, remembered his father as a strict
disciplinarian. The wagons, he said, never traveled on Sundays, making good
camp every Saturday night and resting over the Sabbath.

Individual Note:
     George remembers: A chunk of corn bread was luxery enough for us in those days.
Even in a train as large as ours, there was need to hurry along as fast as
possible and at that the wagons could not average 15 miles a day. My father
used a yoke of three oxen on each of his three wagons and he never worked one
yoke two consecutive days. He always insisted on the cattle being given their
rest and I remember one time when one of our drivers hitched one oxen team -
Rum and Brandy - to the wagon one morning just before we started. My father
happened by, saw the team, and spoke to the driver. "Didn't you work Run and
Brandy yesterday?" he inquired. The driver admitted he had and my father made
him change the team right there. Our train was too large for the Indians to
risk an open attack, but we were bothered by those of them who came and begged
for things from us, at various times. We always tried to give them what they
wanted to keep them peaceable, but on one thing my father was insistant: He
never allowed us to give them powder and bullets, which were the things they
asked for oftenest.

Individual Note:
     The pioneers arrived at Petaluma, CA late in September 1856. There, Stephen
bought a farm and ran a dairy ranch. In 1858 the family moved to Lane Co., OR,
whereStephen bought a 640 acre farm four miles southwest of Goshen. In the fall
of 1866 he went back to CA where he died the following spring. One source dates
his death as 31 Mar 1867, but the Lake Co. Great Register records his presence
in May of that year, with the indication that he died soon after.

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Note for:   Thomas Dillard,    1730 - 1784         Index

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Individual Note:
     Thomas served as Lt. of the Militia, Pittsylvania Co.; justice of the peace,
vestryman of the church; He commanded a company of Pittsylvania Militia in
the Indian Campaign of the Revolutionary War;

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Note for:   Thomas Dillard,   ABT 1725 - JUN 1774         Index

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Individual Note:
     Thomas died at his plantation on Straitstone Creek in Pittsylvania Co., VA;
His will is on file in that county, dated 4 May 1774;

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Note for:   Edward Dillard,    1668 -          Index

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Individual Note:
     Edward lived in Middlesex Co.;

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Note for:   George Dillard,    1624 -          Index

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Individual Note:
      GEORGE DILLARD

Individual Note:
      The Dillard Family were an ancient French Huguenot family from the Illard
province of France. The name has been: de Illard, D'Illard and finally Dillard
The first Dillard in America was George Dillard, who was born in England in
1624. He was brought to America in 1660 by Capt. James Moore Faultery, who
brought over a colony of 107 persons, for which he received a grant of 5350
acres on the Rappahannock River, May 22, 1650.
        As a member of the Jamestown militia, he fought against the Indians and
was given 250 acres of land in New Kent Co., VA (later King & Queen Co.). On 29
November 1665, he was granted an additional 250 acres for the transfer of five
persons to Virginia, which lay upon the branches of the Tassitromp Swamp. The
plantation was near the old Stratton Major Parish Church on the Arracoa Creek.
His land lay half way between West Point and Shackelfords. In 1694 he was
granted 139 acres adjoining his other land.

Individual Note:
      It is believed that George had three sons: Thomas, Nicholas and Edward.
Edward was born about 1668 and was the father of Thomas, Sr. and George.

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