OF
GUERNSEY CO., OHIO
Jay D. Andrews
106 Cornwallis Road
Yorktown, Virginia 23690
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EPHRAIM DILLEY SR., BORN 1755 IN HUNTERDON CO., NEW JERSEY
Ephraim Dilley Sr. was born 6 Nov 1755 in Hunterdon Co., N. J.,
and died at Senecaville, Ohio, (Guernsey Co.) 26 July 1844. He
married about 1780 Lucy Uiss Ayers, born in Sussex Co., N. J.
in 1763. Lucy died 15 March 1840 and she too, along with Ephraim
and many of their descendants, is buried near the SE corner of
the Senecaville cemetery one-half mile from the old Ephraim Dilley
homestead where his son Robert Dilley lived in later years.
In a letter to Minnie Carpenter, Mrs. Lura Thompson of Lore City, IA wrote: "We live on a farm where Ephraim Dilley Sr. lived and the house in which he died stood in the corner of our yard. It is situated about a mile north of Senecaville and about half a mile away is the beautiful cemetery where he and so many of his descendants are buried. The graves are very well kept and those of Ephraim Sr. and Abraham are decorated with flags in memory of their service to their country. Ephraim served in the Revolution and was present at the battles of Stony Point and Trenton. With his children he settled near Senecaville, Guernsey Co., OH about 1814 Lucy Ayres Dilley was a daughter of Dr. Ayres of New York. Her brother was a patent medicine doctor. (Note by JDA--I have omitted Ephraim Dilley Jr's name in the burial list because he was buried in Northfield, MN; also, I substituted 1814 for the date of arrival at Senecaville).
Ephraim Sr. served in the Revolutionary War and was reputed to have been present at the battles of Stony Point and Trenton but his pension record does not support that claim. He enlisted in October 1776 and served one month as a private in Capt. Jacob Stull's company, Second Regiment of Militia. He served one month as private in Capt Matthias Beckwith's company in the fall of 1778, and three terms of two weeks each as a private in Capt. Christian Longstreet's company on the frontiers over the Blue Mountains. Although Ephraim's regiment served at Valley Forge during the famous winter of 1777-78, Ephraim was not in service at that time. Archive records of his claim for a pension were examined by V. W. O'Hara in the 1950s and by Gerald and Ruth Dilley in 1985. He may have supplied wood for the iron forges near Trenton because he lived nearby.
Ephraim and Lucy had six sons and two daughters, all but the younqest two sons were born in New Jersey. All eight children lived to maturity. The gaps between birth years hint that other children may have died during infancy and been buried in New Jersey. On 8 May 1870, Robert Dilley wrote a letter to his brother Ephraim Jr. listing the ages that his brothers and sisters would have been in 1670. He also listed the birth and marriage dates of Ephraim's children. Four of the children lived to be-over 70 years of age and Abraham was 90 when he died. This record of family robustness and longevity is remarkable for children born in the 18th century when medical treatment was primitive.
Ephraim Dilley Sr. and his family moved to Fayette Co., Pa. in 1799 where Ephraim Jr. was born in 1799 and Samuel in 1802. In 1814 he moved to Guernsey Co., Ohio, where he lived on a farm one mile north of Senecaville. Ephraim and Lucy were founding members of the Senecaville Presbyterian Church. The two oldest boys were reaching maturity at the time of the move to Guernsey Co. Ephraim Jr. married in 1821 and apparently lived on or near the home place of Ephraim Sr. who died in 1844 at age 89. All of Ephraim Jrs' 12 children were born at Senecaville before he moved to Minnesota.
Ephraim Dilley Jr. moved with his family to Hazelwood, Rice Co., Minn. in 1856 at age 56. This is eight miles from Northfield where he died in 1882 at his son Georges's home, and both he and his wife Rachel Henry are buried at Northfield.
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Four of Ephraim Jr.'s sons enlisted for the Civil War. Robert spent his time in a hospital in Indiana; Samuel was in the cavalry and fought Indians in Minn. as did Ephraim Valentine Rose Dilley; James Frances, the youngest son, fought with General Grant at St. Louis and Vicksburg, and afterwards was with Sherman, on his march to the sea.
James F. Dilley entered the Civil War as a private in the 4th Minn. Volunteers and came out a Lieutenant. During the War, he visited the home of his uncle Samuel Dilley near Phoenix in Yazoo Co., Miss, but Samuel was in refuge in Madison Co., Miss. The Mississippi incident was written to Minnie Carpenter of Utah, historian of the clan, by Thomas Abraham Dilley of Phoenix, her uncle. Samuel Dilley moved to Mississippi about 1825 where he married twice and became a Southerner with sons in the Confederate Army.
There are statements in some family records that Hannah Perry was the wife of Aaron Dilley b 1721 in New Jersey. Robert Dilley b 1793 was probably right in his letter to Ephraim Jr. in 1870 when he stated that Hannah Perry married Abram Ayres whose daughter Lucy married Ephraim Sr. The Ayres were a New York family originally, but they may have lived in New Jersey later where many by that name lived. When Robert calculated the ages of his brothers and sisters in 1870, all but Joseph and Hannah were still alive. It was a family of unusual longevity and large families with 6, 8, 10, 10, 11, and 13 children in that second generation most of whom survived into adulthood.
Minnie Carpenter collected family records from many sources in the 1920s including the following: Alice R. Sayre, a daughter of Harriett Dilley and John Sayre of Northfield, Minn.; Mrs. Susan A. Wood of Northfield and Mary L. Dilley of St. Paul, Minn.. several others provided records for individual families. Minnie sent a compilation of Ephraim clan families to Thomas Ray Dilley of Morgantown, W. Virginia, but deposited a different account in the Salt Lake City Mormon records. Both have been used in this compilation.
1-1 Children of Ephraim Dilley, Sr., and Lucy Ayres: (m 1783?)
2-1 Joseph B. b 1782? d 4 May 1833 age 51 yrs; m Sarah Bulkley
2-2 Abraham b 29 Apr 1785 d 5 Sep 1875 age 90 m Jane Wilson
McCleary d 7 Oct 1851
2-3 Hannah b 20 Jun 1787 d 14 Mar 1865 age 77 m Benjamin Rose
2-4 Anna b 3 Nov 1789 d 12 Jul 1883 age 93 m Enoch Thomas
2-5 Robert b 22 Sep 1793 d 14 Mar 1878 age 84 m Hannah McDonald
Waters
2-6 William b 1796 m Elizabeth Lowery (Rachel?)
2-7 Ephraim Jr b 25 Oct 1799 d 20 Mar 1882 age 82 m Rachel Henry
b 17 Mar
1802 at Philadelphia, PA, d Jul 1872, both buried at Northfield,
MN.
2-8 Samuel b 8 May 1802 d 30 Sep 1674 age 72 m Charlotte Lemanda
Hinds Usher and lived in Miss.
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2-1 FAMILY OF JOSEPH S. DILLEY B 1782, SON OF EPHRAIM SR.
by Jay D. Andrews
Joseph Dilley Aas born ca 1782, ih Sussex Co., NJ, a son of Ephraim
Sr. and Lucy Ayers. His wife was Sarah (Buckley) Dilley b 1787,
d 14 Feb 1834. He moved with his father and three brothers and
two sisters to Fayette Co., PA in early 1799 where Ephraim Jr.
and Samuel were born in 1799 and 1802. Ephraim Sr. remained in
Fayette Co. until 1814, when he moved to Guernsey Co., OH, and
settled at Senecaville, in Richland Twp. Joseph was married to
Sarah Buckley in Fayette Co., and they appeared in the 1810 census;
Ephraim had 3 sons <1 <10, and 2 10-16), and 1 daughter
(Anna) over 16 yrs of age. Therefore, Abraham, Hannah, and Robert
were already out of the nest and married, but did not appear in
the 1810 census for Fayette Co. It is possible that they had moved
west to Guernsey Co. earlier than Ephraim Sr. with families into
which they had married; all but William and Anna were married
before 1810, probably in Fayette Co., PA. A second earlier wife
of Joseph was found in DAR applications; Cynthiana Rose was the
mother of Joseph's first 3 children born before 1810, if she was
his wife.
Ephraim Sr. and Lucy were already over 45 years of age in 1810, and in the 1820 census they had two boys 16-26. By 1830, Ephraim was over 70 years of age, but the females are confused (1 5-10 & 1 80-90) because Lucy was about 8 years younger than Ephraim Sr. He was not found in the 1840 census although he died in 1844, and Lucy in 1840. Both are buried in the Senecaville cemetery, half a mile south of their farm. Their sandstone gravestones are eroded, but a new stone with dates has been erected--possibly by Bernice Scott Hoge, a daughter of Dr. Winfield Scott who married Candace Hill. She was a daughter of Dr. Noah Hill and Mary Dilley (Abrahams daughter). Dr. Scott practiced medicine at Senecaville for 30 years, and Noah Hill 50 years. I have a letter from Bernice Scott in 1947, describing these relationships. She and her brother visited the graveyard every 2 or 3 years from their home in Philadelphia.
Joseph Dilley died 4 May 1833 and Sarah Buckley on the 14 Feb 1834; both are buried at Senecaville Cemetery. They left a large family of 9 sons and 4 daughters, several of the daughters were mature or nearly of age, but there were young children left without parents. Arrangement of Joseph's family by age of birth is based on the will of Ephraim Monterville Dilley, the oldest son. who left 1/3 of his estate to his wife, and 2/3 to his siblings. The 7 youngest children appeared in court and chose Abraham Dilley as their guardian; their ages appeared in the court records. These data were found in the court records by Lisa Fair. There is no evidence that any of Joseph's children actually lived with Abraham, but legally he was their guardian.
The children of Joseph and Cynthiana Rose (1) were: (first
wife from record by Daisy Jeanette (Dilley) Lowry).
3-1 Ephraim M. Dilley m Cassandra _____. Will. Vol. A, p 441;
no children: d ca 1839
3-2 William R.Dilley m Hannah _____.
3-3 Lucy Dilley m 4 Apr 1933 John Morrison, Guernsey Co.
Children of Joseph and Sarah Bulkley (2):
3-4 Elizabeth (Betsy) b 1811 (census) and (b 1806 tombstone);
d 1871 m (1) Solomon Shafer; m (2) ca 1835-36, William Irwin b
in Ireland (1804-1&871 on tombstone). Both are buried at Bethel
Cemetery, Valley Twp. Guernsey Co. OH. (b 1811 by census)
3-5 Buckley Erasmus (Bulkly on marriage cert.) b 11 Feb 1813,
d 14 Feb 1891 (tombstone), bur at Senecavillle. He m 6 Jan 1838
Jemima Shaw b 27 Jun 1817 at Fredricksburg, MD, d 9 Mar 1907 (tombstone).
Buried at Sen.ecaville. Buckley appeared in the 1840 census with
I male 5
yrs. but no wife found. In 1850, he had 4 children ages 1 to 11,
all males. He was a bricklayer.
In 1860, he had 6 children ages 2-21, all males except Sarah Frances
age 4 years. In 1870, listed as Erasmus, he was 57 and 5 children
ages 4 to 19 were listed. There were 4 bricklayers in
the family, and one daughter Sarah age 14.
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3-6 Valentine Joseph Dilley b 25 May 1814, d 25 Aug 1885 (tombstone). He m 13 Jan 1835, Amanda S. Hutchison b 1817, d 8 Apr 1905 (tombstone) both at Senecaville. In the 1850 census, Valentine had 3 children age 1-9, James, Richard and Mary A. His son James L. b 1841 was a Civil War soldier who lost a leg 3 days before Lee's surrender; he became a jeweler with a large family and a prominent public life. He spent 9 years in Muskingum Co., OH.
3-7 Abraham Dilley b 9 Oct 1815, d 9 Jun 1876, m 2 Oct 1838 in Guernsey Co. Isabel Shaw b in MD. He did not appear in the 1840 census, but in 1850 he was in Washington Co., OH (Aurelius Twp) as a farmer with 4 children: Clinton 11, Sarah Jane 9, Tobias 6, & Valentine 3. In 1870 Abraham and Isabel appeared in the census for Muskingum Co., OH, both age 54 and a dau Isabel A. age 16. He d age 60 in 1876, leaving a will dated 2 Jun 1876 giving son Tobias 37 acres of land and leaving two daughters Sarah J. Perkins and Isabella R. and his wife Isabella C. See copy of will.
3-8 James R. Dilley b 15 Jun 1817; m 8 Dec 1840 Eliza Timberlake.
3-9 Mary Ann Dilley b 14 May 1818; m 27 Apr 1836 John Sills, Guernsey Co.
3-10 Robert P. Dilley b 19 Jun 1821; m 16 Dec 1841 Nancy Collins b in VA ca 1622. They appeared in the 1850 and 1860 censuses for Wash. Co. PA, both ages 28 and 38 resepectively in successive censuses, with 6 children ages 1-13; he was a farmer.
3-11 John B. Dilley Sr., b 19Jun 1822, d 9 Feb 1875 age 50 year; m Mary Jannie Whalino b 23 Feb 1825; she m (2) 15 Sep 1847, James Frame; he was a merchant at Senecaville (two John B's probably confused! (Sandra has a John dying Oct 1844 age 22 by tombstone in Senecaville cemetery with reference).
3-12 Sarah Jane b 19 Jul 1824; bur. at Senecaville (d 1852?); m 30 Sep 1847 John Wallace.
3-13 Brazilla (or Balzer) b 31 May 1818, m Elizabeth Jane Monahan. They appeared in the 1850 census for Wash. Co., OH, (Liberty Twp), with two children; John 12 & William 9. He was a blacksmith in 1850. (The 1828 birth year for Brazilla must be wrong; I have 1818 but that conflicts with Mary Ann's birth).
Note: This is a mixture of data from Sandra William's and Minnie Carpenter's records. Both Sandra and I had most of the early censuses. This is a sample of the changes that will occur throughout the Ephraim clan when all our records are combined in this version of Joseph's children, the order used is found in Ephraim M. Dilley's will, and the court proceedings for guardianship by Abraham Sr. for the four youngest children, as reported by Lisa Fair. This allows the gap in Joseph's family between Lucy and Bulkley's birth dates to be filled. Elizabeth may yet be the oldest child of Joseph if the gravestone date of 1806 is valid for her birth. I have chosen Lucy as the probable daughter of Joseph before 1810 in Fayette Co., PA, and in the 1810 census (2 males & 1 female <10 yrs).
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2-2 Children of Abraham and Jane Wilson (McCleary) Dilley.
Jane b 29 Aug 1783, m 19 Apr 1808, d 7 Oct 1851.
Children b at Senecaville
3-14 Lucy Ann b 8 Mar 1810 m Samuel Stiers 31 Mar 1829
3-15 Nancy Jane b 10 Jun 1811 d 1835 m-Enoch Satterthwaite 24
Apr 1834
3-16 Mary Roland b 18 Nov 1812 d 13 Aug 1837 m Noah Lovejoy Hill
3-17 Hannah b 19 Aug 1814 d 1894 m 8 Jan 1835 Joshua Martin b
1815 d 1905
3-18 Sarah b 19 Nov 1815 d 1892 m Mifflin Gooderal 9 Aug 1838
3-19 Margaret b 22 Jul 1817 d 1892 m 1 Jan 1838 William Thompson
1815-1889
3-20 Robert C. b 19 Nov 1818 d 16 Feb 1902 m Sarah Ann Russell
1821-1897
3-21 Eliza Catherine b 24 Sep 1820 m 24 Jul 1844 Rev Arline Reese
3-22 Jane Wilson b 19 May 1822 1897 m James Hatton 22 May 1844
3-23 Elizabeth b 25 Jun 1825 1890
2-3 Children of Hannah and Benjamin Rose b 2 May 1789, d 18
Jul 1825, m 1809
(All born at Senecaville)
3-24 William b 9 Oct 1810 1 Jul 1878 m Mary Ann Thompson
3-25 Ephraim Ayres 14 Mar 1812 8 Jan 1903 m 1 Jane Thompson 2
Hannah Glaisoner. Moved to Iowa in
1858
3-26 Annie 15 Dec 1813 1890 m Samuel Reed 1807-1882
3-27 Elizabeth 15 Jan 1816 9 Mar 1874 m I George Walraven 1839,
(2) Joseph Whitten 1850.
3-28 George Washington b 4 Mar 1818 d 1895 m 1840 Hannah Robbins,
m (2)
3-29 Benjamin F. b 20 May 1822 d 9 Jun 1918 m I Sarah Ann Whalino;
m (2) 2 Feb 1843 Jane White.
Sarah b 28 Jul 1823 d 31 Mar 1865. They moved to Iowa; source:
Whaling bible; also Rose bible;
2-4 Children of Anna Dilley and Enoch Thomas b 10 Jun 1783
d 18 May 1857. Enoch m (1) 5 Sep 1807 Charity Shipman;
They came to Ohio and settled in Wills twp, Guernsey Co. where
they lived until her death Feb 1814 Children
deceased. Enoch J. m (2) Anna Dilley b 3 Nov 1789 in N.J. They
had eight children:
3-30 Hannah b 2 Dec 1816 m Jacob Glasner 6 May 1840
3-31 Harriet m John Morrison
3-32 William D. b 20 Sep 1818 d 20 May 1899 age 84 m 3 Jun 1841
Levina Kinney b 2 Sep 1816 or 18 d 25 Feb 1913
3-33 Lucy Ann 14 Jun 1820 d 15 Jan 1913 m William Campbell
3-34 Enoch J. Jr. 1823 d 30 Jun 1900 m Mary Ann Griffith
3-35 James 19 Dec 1824 d 28 Sep 1918 m Caroline Creighton
3-36 Ephraim Ayres 5 Feb 1827 d 29 May 1909 m I Mary M. Fogel
2 Mary Ann Saylor b 1848 d 1911
3-37 Edward Y. 19 Jun 1629 d 25 Oct 1841
3-38 Martha A. L. 1832 d 1907 m William Brooks (She writes that
Esther Hardin was the mother of
Ephraim Sr.)
3-39 Mary B. 1835 d 16 Nov 1859 m James King
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2-5 Children of Robert and Hannah Waters McDonald m 29 May
1817, she b 1793 in Scotland d 10 Sep 1872
Children b in Senecaville. See Robert's will in Guernsey Co. signed
9 Mar 1878. All Children except Lucy alive 1878.
3-40 Lucy b 1 Mar 1818 d 1874 m William Holsman 1814-1895
3-41 Katherine b 8 Aug 1820 d 27 Aug 1909 m Stephen P. Dennison
1813-64
3-42 Eliza b 24 Oct 1822 d m 13 Apr 1848 Jacob Waller
3-43 Jonathan Fletcher 17 Feb 1825 May 1893
3-44 Samuel Morris 23 Jan 1827 d 7 Jul 1903 m Mary Bennett Taylor
1832-1918
3-45 Benjamin Franklin 3 Jun 1829 29 Feb 1892 m Phoebe Korne Holdzkon
3-46 Hannah Marie 19 Dec 1831 d 28 Aug 1917 m 3 Apr 1855 Jesse
C. Hickman who d 1894
3-47 Robert Ayres 22 Mar 1834 d 1920
2-6 Children of William and Elizabeth (Lowery) Dilley m 12 Jun 1822
3-48 Maria b 1822 d 26 Sep 1901, Stanton, Goodhue Co., MN;
m Shultz
3-49 Elijah L. b 13 Oct 1824, d 18 Dec 1913 age 89 yrs; m 13 Nov
1845 Elizabeth Griffith; he moved to Spencerville,
IN, DeKalb Co. He m 1873 Mrs. Susan Ayres; buried in Spencerville
Cemetery.
3-50 Oliver b 1827 Noble Co., OH d 1902, Stanton, MN
3-51 Malinda b abt 1830 d 25 Nov 1870 m Jacob Stoff
3-52 William Jr. b 14 Oct 1830 d 21 Jul 1917 m 17 or 20 Mar 1854
Marqaret Elizabeth Davis. He was born in Noble Co., OH
3-53 Nancy b abt 1836 Noble Co., OH m Wm Robey
3-54 Emaline b 25 Oct 1839;d 25 Jul 1898 m Edmond Phillips
3-55 Samuel unmarried
3-56 George Washington b 1842 d 1862 unmarried
3-57 Mary Ellen b 1844 d 19 Jan 1905 m John Smith
2-7 Children of Ephraim Jr. and Rachel (Henry) Dilley. She
b 17 Mar 1802 d 9 Jul 1872.
Both buried at Northfield. m 7 Sep 1821; All children b at Senecaville.
3-58 Perry Ayres b 1 Apr 1822 d 20 Jan 1905 age 82 m Harriett
Burson 12 May 1845 No children.
3-59 Robert Henry b 23 May 1823 d 23 Feb 1898 age 75 m 27 Mar
1845 Catherine Phillips b 1827 d 5 May 1917, bur. Northfield,
MN
3-60 Samuel Jefferson 3 Sep 1824 d 11 Nov 1919 age 95 m Mary Sayre
3 Oct 47
3-61 Harriett b 23 Aug 1826 d 22 Oct 1868 age 42 m John Sayre
5 Jan 47
3-62 Abram b 25 May 1828 d 15 Dec 1915 age 87 m Marie J. Yakey
2 Jul 1848
3-63 Joseph b 25 May 1830 d 9 Dec 1909 age 79 m Jane Campbell
8 Nov 1860
3-64 Eliza Jane b 26 Aug 1832 d 3 Nov 1919 age 87 m John Gordon
8 Apr 1850
3-65 Ephraim Valentine Rose b 21Nov 1833 m Alice A. John 5 Jan
1858
3-66 William Clark b 12 Dec 1834 d 14 Mar 1928 age 94 m Margaret
Hagerty 22 Jan 1862
3-67 George Washington 12 May 1839 28 Aug 1910 age 71 m Margaret
Elizabeth Nicholson 15 Jan 1862
3-68 James Francis b 28 Jul 1841 d 22 Jun 1919 age 77 m Mary E.
Sheridan 13 Sep 1870
3-69 Mary Elizabeth 30 Sep 1845 d 5 Jan 1890 m Henry W. Barber
26 Feb 1861, both buried at New London, MN.
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2-8 SAMUEL DILLEY OF PHOENIX, MI, SON OF EPHRAIM SR.
Samuel Dilley b 2 May 1802 in Fayette Co., PA d 30 Sep 1874 near Phoenix, Yazoo Co., MI. At the aqe of 25 years, Samuel went to Jefferson Co., MI, and later settled near Phoenix, MI. He m (1) Martha Ann Little b Jan 1809 at Utica, Hinds Co., MI; she d without children in 1828 after her marriage on 20 Jul 1827 at Utica. Samuel in (2) Charlotte Lemenda Hinds Usher b 25 Jul 1817 d 12 May 1890 near Phoenix. All his children were by Charlotte Usher. Samuel dealt in the nursery business and was a local Methodist minister. Children: ((all born near Phoenix)
3-70 Ephraim Ayres b 11 Apr 1836 d 6 Sep 1837 as an infant
3-71 Lucy Ann b 10 Sep 1837 d 11 Sep 1883
3-72 Sarah Katherine b 7 Apr 1839 d 16 Jan 1929 almost 90 yrs
old
3-73 Joseph Andrew b 2 Jan 1841 d 6 Sep 1911, a confederate soldier
3-74 Robert William b 27 Nov 1842 d 23 Apr 1863, a confederate
soldier
3-75 Samuel Usher b 15 Jan 1844 d 11 Sep 1861, a confederate soldier
3-76 Eugene Perry b 10 Nov 1845 d 29 Nov 1869, a confederate soldier
3-77 Abraham Thomas b 17 Jan 1848
3-78 Benjamin Rose b 30 Jan 1850 d 17 Jul 1868
3-79 Laura Lemenda b 1 Nov 1851
3-80 Hannah Elizabeth 1 Jan 1854 d 3 Aug 1888 m Wm Edward Carpenter
3-81 Mary Keziah b 24 Sep 1855
Notes by Minnie Carpenter: War records given me by Uncle Abraham Thomas Dilley in his own words: 'My brothers Joseph Andrew, Robert William and Samuel Usher Dilley enlisted in 1861, the first company to serve in the Confederate Army from this part of MI. On his way to Virginia, Sam contracted Pneumonia and died on 11 Sep 1861. They were sent to Virginia and arrived there the day after the battle of Bull Run. Sam wasn't in a battle. Brothers Joe and Robert were both wounded in the Battle of Seven Pines near Richmond. This wound left brother Joe a cripple for the rest of his life, although he recovered suff iciently to ride horseback and served the remainer of the War as an independent scout for generals Adams and Ross. Brother Robert recovered from his wound and was with his Army in all the battles until 1863. He took sick and was sent to the hospital at Lynchburg, VA, and died on 23 Apr 1863. Eugene Perry Joined the Gale Reserves in 1862."
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3-1 BULKLEY DILLEY SR. SON OF JOSEPH DILLEY
Bulkley Dilley Sr. b 13 Feb 1813 at Senecaville, OH d 14 Feb 1891, m 6 Jan 1838 Jemima Shaw b 1815 d 9 Mar 1907 age 90. Children: (all born at Senecaville) Bulkley was reported as Erasmas in 1870 census, age 57.
4-1 William Allen b 7 Oct 1838 d 6 Feb 1881 m Caroline Kurst
4-2 Cynthia Ann b abt 1840
4-3 Lorensier b 15 Sep 1842 d 1855
4-4 Joseph Burl b 29 Aug 1844
4-5 George b 29 Jan 1847
4-6 Parmenus L. b 7 Mar 1849 d 1934 m 8 Jul 1874 Evaline Rose,
a cousin
b 8 Dec 1850 d 1926
4-7 Bulkley Jr. b 6 Aug 1851 m 5 Oct 1880 Clara Lohn
4-8 Henry A. b 16 Dec 1853 m 28 Nov 1878 Laura Morrison, living
at
Senecaville for the 1900 census. He d 2 May 1940 at Cambridge,
age 86
4-9 Sarah Frances b 16 Jun 1856 m 5 Sep 1876 Samuel Eldridge Saltsgaver
4-10 Ephraim M. 16 Aug 1858 d 20 Mar 1952 m Laura Dugan
(Evaline Rose was a cousin of Parmenus and a dau of Georqe W.
Rose.)
3-2 VALENTINE JOSEPH DILLEY, SON OF JOSEPH DILLEY
Valentine Joseph Dilley was b in 1814 and d in 1885 according to his graveyard inscription in the Senecaville graveyard. He is variously referred to as Joseph or Valentine with either name first. He m 13 Jan 1835 Amanda W. Hutchison. She d 9 Apr 1905. About the time of the beginning of the Civil War, he and two or more sons of Joseph moved into Washington Co., OH south of Senecaville. Three of Joseph's sons enlisted for the Civil War from there and during the 1860s they were selling oil leases on their land. He later moved back to Senecaville. No record of Valentine's family appears in Minnie Carpenter's records of the Ephraim clan, so I have reconstructed his family from census records. He was a shoemaker in Guernsey Co., OH at the 1850 census
4-11 James L. b 24 Mar 1841 d 3 Feb 1928; m Clara A. Miller
b 21 May 1850 d 10 Feb 1944 age 93 at Macksburg rwashington Co.,
OH. He was a Union soldier who spent four years as a drummer in
the Union Army. He was wounded in the thigh three days before
Lee surrendered and lost a leg. He returned to Macksburg in Washington
Co., OH and was in the merchantile business with his brother Richard
H. Dilley for four years. He married Clara Miller at Macksburg
and moved to
Muskinoum Co., OH where he was a jeweler for 9 years. He returned
to Seneca ville in 1880 and lived there until 1908.
They had 8 children, some of whom lived at Senecaville. See 1900
census for sons Wm b 1872 age 27; Samuel M. b
1876 age 23; James A. b 1882 age 17 in 1900. See 1850 census for
ages of f irst 7 children , p 46.
4-12 Richard H. of Cambridge, b 1845 census
4-13 Joseph b 1848c, of Duncan Falls, Muskingum Co., OH, wife
Mary A. 4 children in 1900 census
4-14 Mary Ann b 1849c, dead 1911
4-15 Carol ine E. b 1852c census, m John W. James of Maxburg,
OH
4-16 Minerva U. m Richard Lowry of Senecaville, OH
4-17 Harriet dead in 1911
4-18 Amanda m James Nelson of Senecaville, OH
4-19 William b 1860c, dead in 1911
4-20 Ephraim dead in 1911
4-21 Sarah Frances dead in 1911
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3-4 ABRAHAM AND ISABEL (SHAW) DILLEY (1850 Census)
He was a blacksmith in Aurelius Twp., Wash. Co., OH in 1850; he
m Belle Ruth Bailey.
4-22 Clinton b 1839co died 1862 in Civil War
4-23 Sarah Jane b 1841c m Perkins
4-24 Tobias b 1844c
4-25 Valentine b 1847c (male.)
3-5 ROBERT P. AND NANCY (COLLINS) DILLEY (1860 Census)
Robert was a son of Joseph who moved to Wash. Co., OH by 1860
census, and enlisted for the Civil War there. His family from
census records in 1860:
4-26 Sarah E. b 1847c
4-27 Pedro P. b 1849c
4-28 Enoch M. b 1850c
4-29 James W. b 1855c
4-30 Robert E. b 1857c
4-31 Milford b 1859c
3-7 BALZER (BRAZILLA) DILLEY SON OF JOSEPH
1850 Census, Washington Co., OH
Dilley, Balzer 32 Blacksmith $800 OH
Elizabeth J. 30 <Monahan) OH
John 12 OH
William 9 OH
3-8 ELIZABETH (DILLEY) SHAFER, IRWIN, DAU OF JOSEPH
Elizabeth or Betsey Dilley m (1) Solomon Shafer. Their daughter:
4-32 Sarah E. m Martin Larue; they had Mary R. b 1851 d 1917,
and Alta
El izabeth m (2) William Irwin (age 55 in 1860). She was age 49
in 1860.
Their children were:
4-33 Thomas C.
4-34 Marmena R.
4-35 Damarius (Joseph age 18 in 1860 census)
4-36 James Henry
3-14 LUCY ANN (DILLEY) STIERS DAU OF ABRAHAM DILLEY
Lucy Ann Dilley b 3 (8) Apr 1810 was a dau of Abraham and Jane (McCleary) Dilley b at Senecaville, OH, m 31 Mar 1829, Samuel Stiers b 15 Feb 1809 at Senecaville. Children: (all b at Senecaville, John and Lucy by a 2nd wife)
4-37 Abraham Dilley Stiers b 20 Apr 1830, m (1) 20 Feb 1850
Elizabeth Thompson; They had one dau Jane Elizabeth Stiers b 10
Dec 1851.
4-38 Samuel Arze b 23 Sep 1831, d 1867, m 24 May 1855, Phebe Johnson
4-39 William Newton b 4 Apr 1833 25 Nov 1855, Jane Morrison
4-40 Georqe Washington 27 Apr 1834 d Mar 1851
4-41 Robert E. b 5 Mar 1836 15 Aug 1864, Letica Ann Marson
10.
4-42 Nancy Jane b 29 Sep 1838 d 13 Feb 1869, m 11 May 1856,
Jesse Jasper Griffith
4-43 Joshua Martin b 31 Jan 1840 m 5 Jan 1862, Susan Lear Bivens
4-44 Alexander Smith b 4 Jan 1842
4-45 Joseph Hamilton b 12 Sep 1844
4-46 Noah Hill b 6 Oct 1846
4-47 James Aramine b 22 Mar 1848 d 22 Aug 1849 in infancy
John Avery Eisenbery b 24 Dec 1855 m Mary Lucy Norton b 15 Nov
1862
Source: Mrs. Arch. P. Cooper, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 1932
3-16 MARY ROLAND (DILLEY) HILL DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM DILLEY
Mary Dilley b 1812 at Cambridge, OH, was a dau of Abraham and Jane Wilson (McCleary) Dilley, m 30 Sep 1833 Dr. Noah L. Hill b 1813 in Senecaville, OH. She died in 1887 and Noah in 1894. Their children:
4-48 Dr. John Hill b 1834 d 1904
4-49 Jane Hill b 1836 d 1896 m _______ Collins
4-50 Abraham Dilley b 1838 a farmer
4-51 Sarah Hill b 1840 m _______ Weeden
4-52 Elizabeth b 25 Oct 1842 m M. L. Spaid a widower
4-53 Leicester King b 1844 d 1910 m _______ Taylor, a lawyer
4-54 Mary Dilley b 1846 m _______ Taylor
4-55 Stephen b 1848 a farmer
4-56 Joseph1850 d 1851 in infancy
4-57 Nancy b 1851 m ______ Robins
4-58 Candace Hill b 1853 m ______ Scott
4-59 Homer Melton b 1855 publisher
4-60 Noah Lovejoy Jr 1858 d 20 Jun 1922
3-20 ROBERT C. DILLEY & SARAH ANN RUSSELL, SON OF ABRAHAM
1870 Census, Taylor Co., IA, 1870
Dilley, R. E. 53 Farmer OH
Sarah A. 50 OH
Emmett A. 20 Farmer OH
Mary N. 17 at home OH
Nancy 14 at home OH
3-24 WILLIAM ROSE SON OF HANNAH (DILLEY) AND BENJAMIN'ROSE
William Rose son of Hannah Dilley and Benjamin Rose was b 9 Oct 1810 at Senecaville, OH and d I Jul 1878, m Mary Ann Thompson b 17 May 1810 d 16 Feb 1901 near Senecaville, dau of Robert Thompson and Susanna Torrence. Their children: (all born at Senecaville)
4-61 Elvira Jane b 26 Jan 1832 d 4 Jul 1868 m John Dollison
27 Jun 1860
4-62 Hannah Susannah b 29 Jan 1834 d 20 Jun 1879 m Henry C. Secrest
1 Feb 1855
4-63 Mary Emily b 16 Mar 1836 d 4 Aug 1871 m Nelson Connet 11
Apr 1854
4-64 John Calvin 17 Apr 1838 d 19 Jul 1910 m Emily G. Lowery 22
Sep 1881
4-65 Benjamin Frankiln 28 Jan 1840 m Elizabeth Million 18 Dec
1866
4-66 Robert Thompson b 15 Mar 1842 d 6 May 1864
4-67 Thomas Jefferson 3 Jun 1844 d 1 Sep 1899 m Mary Unstott 5
Oct 1865
4-68 Sarah Katherine b 22 Jan 1847 d 20 Feb 1893 m John Rowland
28 Mar 1867
4-69 William Sylvester 31 Dec 1850 d 26 Jan 1856 child
Source: Mrs. Della Rose Findlay, Lore City, OH
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