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EPHRAIM DILLEY JR.
On Sunday last, just as the old year was closing, Henry Watson Barber, a former old time resident of this community, passed on from the scenes of this world, at the ripe old age of nearly 85 years. His death occured at his home in Foreston, MN, and was perhaps 1argely due to the decline of old age , although he has also been affected with a number of bodily ailments. The remains were brought to New London for interment, arriving here on Tuesday, and the funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church the day following at 11 O'clock in the forenoon. Rev. T. M. Finley conducted the services. The remains were interred at Oak Hill cemetery.
Henry Watson Barber Was born at Lowell, Mass. , June 22nd, 1832. He thus would have attained the age of 85 years had he lived until the coming summer. The exact date is uncertain, but it was about sixty years ago that he came to Minnesota, settling first at Farmington, in Dakota County. He was first married to a Miss Barnum, and to this union one child was born, a daughter, who grew to womanhood and who passed away last summer. Some time after the decease of his first wife, and while still living at Farmington, he was united in marriaqe with Elizabeth Dilley. (She was Mary Elizabeth Dilley a daughter of Ephraim and Rachel (Henry) Dilley). To this union, five children were born, three sons and two daughters, all of whom are living. They are W. W. Barber of this village, Arthur Barber of Andover, South Dakota, and Harry Barber of Webster, South Dakota; also Mrs. J. E. Smithson and Miss Nellie Barber of the town of Roseville. In about the year 1881, the family moved to this county, and settled on a farm a few miles east of New London. He made his home in the community until about six years ago, when he moved to Foreston. While living here, his second wife passed away, and he was later united in in marriage with Mrs. Emma Brown, a half-sister of John Wright of this place. He is survived by his widow, two sons by his last marriage, Ferman and Lawrence Barbar, all of the children of his second wife, as above named, besides other relatives and a large circle of friends.
The deceased was a man of a kind and generous disposition, and was well liked by those who knew him. He served his country in the Civil War for a period of two years, enlisting while he was a resident of Farmington. Among those from a distance who were present at the funeral were: Georqe Babson, a son-in-law of Castle Rock, Minn., Mrs. B. Wriqht of Willmar, and Frank Dilley of Foreston.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to thank all those who rendered us their assistance and sympathy during our recent bereavement, occasioned by the death of our husband and father. Mrs. Henry Baer; Ferman Barber; Laurence Barbar; W. W. Barber and family; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Smithson; and Nellie Barber. New London Times 1-4-1917
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(Ephraim Dilley clan)
1. What is your full name? Ralph H. Dilley
2. What is your fathers full name? Permenes L. Dilley
3. When and where was he born? Was born March 7, 1849 at Senecaville, Guernsey Co., OH.
4. Where does he live? Two and one-half miles NE of Senecaville
5. What is your grandfather's name? Bulkley E. Dille.
6. When and where was he born? Born February 11, 1813, and died February 14, 1891, one mile north of Senecaville.
7. When and where did he live? Did live at Senecaville
8. What is your great grandfathers name? Joseph Dilley
9. . When and where was he born? Was born near Senecaville, May 1783, and died May 4, 1833 in the 50th year of his age. (not true! Born in NJ--JDA)
10. Where has he lived? One mile north of Senecaville (from 1814 thereafter to his death only--JDA)
11. When did he die? May 4, 1833.
12. What was your great-great, grandfather's name? Ephraim Dilley; he was born in the state of New Jersey November 5, 1755, and died July 26, 1844 age 98 years, 8 months and 20 days.
Ralph H. Dilley
Senecaville, OH
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Ephraim Dilley Sr served as a Private in Capt Henry Countryman's Company, Second Regiment Sussex Co. N. J. Militia; enlisted Oct 1776 and served one month, Private Capt Jacob Stull's Co, Second Reg. Sussex Co, N. J. Militia, Col John Seward, Spring of 1776, and served one month; Private, Capt Matthias Beckwith's Co. Sussex Co. N.J. Militia, fall of 1778, and served one month; Private, Capt Christian Longstreet's Co, Second Regiment, N. J. Militias 1779, and served three terms of two weeks each on the frontiers over the Blue Mountains, during the Rev. War.
It has been stated by some that Ephraim was at Valley Forge. I believe it is true that the Sussex Co 2nd Reg N.J. Militia was at Valley Forge, and there is undoubtedly a monument in the Valley Forge 1500 acre Park 24 mi of Phila memorializing it; however, from the record of his terms of service, it is evident that Ephraim Dilley did not serve at Valley Forge. I do not believe that the above terms of service agree 100% with those I found on record with his claim for Pension in that division of the Archives Bldg in Washington but it does agree with the facts as I previously found them. The famous winter at Valley Forge was 1777-78 and Ephraim was not in service anywhere during that time. VWO'H This does not belittle his service when rendered but does discount certain claims jumped at by deduction.
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Dear Russel, 24 Jan 1997
I will try to interpret the land records that you sent. I presume that Ephraim Sr. and Joseph obtained their land (NW l/4 of Sect. 20) in 1813, but the patent was received in 1819. In Washington Co., PA. the early settlers obtained land and lived on it often for years before a patent was obtained. A survey was required, and apparently they waited until they tried to sell the land to get a patent.
I am a little perplexed about whose land was being sold for distribution of an inheritance in your patent records. The Quit-claim deeds were headed by E. M. Dilley, who I suppose was Eprhaim Sr., but the land being sold in 1/13 portions of Joseph's 80 acres was for his children who were getting their inheritance. There must be more quit-claims, because all of Joseph's children were still alive. We may have to look at court records to explain distribution of Dilley estates.
One wonders what happened to Ephraim Sr.'s estate of 80 acres. Apparently Ephraim Jr. lived near his father for some 35 years before migrating to MN; he was 21 in 1820 and he moved to MN in 1856. I have not worked the land records in Guernsey Co., although I do have a list of land transfers. When I was there in 1988, 1 had time to cover only library and cemetery records. I expected Sandra Williams of MA, who was doing a very intensive collection of all Dilleys and their relatives in Guernsey Co., to continue her search. In fact, she quit her search abruptly after my visit and got involved in computer work. Her grandmother who lived near Cambridge died and she did not go back.
I mentioned the name of Monterville that was bestowed on several descendants of Ephraim in later generations; Thomas Dilley in the sheriff's office at Cambridge, who first alerted me to 'the Minnie Carpenter account of Ephraim's clan, has the middle name" of Monterville, along with his father. Actually, I have never seen Ephraim Sr. listed with that name, but I'm willing to bet that he had Monterville for the initial M in his name. Recently, I found this name in Lucy's ancestry. You will recall that I believe Hannah Perry married Abram Ayres and they were the parents of Lucy as described by Robert Dilley in a letter to his brother Ephraim Jr. in 1870. Most people know who their grand parents are, and Robert and Ephraim Jr. lived close to their father until the latter's death in 1844.
1 have a list of land transfers in Guernsey Co. which is not in my Ephraim compilation. It shows only one of the quit-claims (E.M. to James in 1838) involved with dissension of Joseph's estate. The land sold by the Government is separate from county records. I don't understand the absence of land transfers from about 1815 to 1840 and up in Guernsey Co. One can see where Ephraim Jr. sold some 223 acres of land in 1856, just before leaving for MN. Joseph never got into the county records. The first item may be the sale of Ephraim Sr.'s land just before he died. I will be interested in your interpretation of these land records. I appreciate your enterprise in obtaining them. I have listened twice to the new federal land location system for states other than the original colonies. I have the forms but have not used them yet. (Bureau of Land Manageuient, GLO Automated Records Project).
I am deeply impressed by the longevity of Ephraim's descendants. Ephraim Jr.'s children are an example. The ages of his children in order of birth are: 82, 75, 95, 42, 87, 79, 87, 94, 77, & 45. I had a problem with a Samuel Dilley age 67 who appeared in the census for Ephraim Jr. This was about the age of Samuel Dilley of Yazoo, MS, but I could not imagine him in MN. The two children in the census record are children of Samuel Jefferson Dilley b 1824, so his age is wrong in that census.
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Dear Russel, 106 Cornwallis Rd. Yorktown, VA 23690, 31 Jan 1997
I updated my account of the first generation of Ephraim Dilley Sr.'s progeny, using the several sources available. I will record the history of my search for Ephraim's clan, and the sources of data and the people involved. (The revision of Joseph's family is two pages long & printed separately).
In mid-November 1949, my wife and I drove to western Kansas to visit my parents. I had corresponded with several people in Mercer Co., PA, where my ancestor Price Dilley had lived for 26 years and died there. I learned about the Thomas Ray Dille records at the Univ. of W. VA, in Morgantown. We stopped there for a day, where I found two large cardboard boxes full of loose genealogical papers. It was Thanksgiving weekend, and the library closed on me. I hurriedly sorted the papers after the librarian offered to copy the records on microfilm. She produced four film rolls for me. There were over a thousand pages, with lots of duplication, on all branches of Dilleys. I still have the films, but they are so crinkled that it is almost impossible to read them now.
On these films, I found an organized account of Ephraim's clan hy families, all hand written on a wide photo-type booklet by Minnie Carpenter. I used a microfilm reader to print out pages, but it was difficult to copy these wide pages. I copied many other items from these films and made abstracts of page contents as a sort of index. From 1920 to 1939 when he died, T. R. Dille collected genealogy from all branches of Dilleus. He wrote many letters seeking info from families. There are hundreds of other letters often lacking any useful data. He also copied or kept? the records of Jesse Brooks Dille, a descendant of David Sr. who collected f rom families in the 1890s. He was the first and most able co11ector of Di11ey records. He made some 70 charts of Dilley families and clans which are difficult to read. He became president of a Normal School in IL, and never worked on genealogy again. His sons became prominent citizens, but were too busy to reply to T. R. Dille. Jesse,as quite knowledgeable on the David Dille clan in the 1890s, and I found him dependable about families and relationships. He also originated the clan traditions which have been repeated by numerous researchers, including the author of the Dille Book. These stories of the origin of families and their migrations are mostly false. One story about two brothers using different spellings of the name because of a quarrel is silly. Most could not read or write then, and clerks often misspelled them.
NY first Ephraim compilation was based on this T. R. DDille account. I placed bound copies at Guernsey Co., OH, Wash. Co., PA, and the Morgantown library. There was no index; the lady at Washington City library, who helped a group of us one afternoon, kidded me pleasantly about this missing index. I learned the lesson.
In December 1985, I bought an Apple IIe computer, and began putting records on itin old-style family groups. I now regret that I did not use a program such as PAF. It is too late to change. I continued to extract records from the T. R. Dille films. In Oct 1986, my wife and I made a trip to all three sites--Morgantown, Washington, and Cambridge. The Cambridge Library has an upper room devoted to genealogy , and a knowledgable lady to help, I had become Acquainted with Sandra Williams of Wakefield, MA who had begun searching Guernsey Co. , records for Ephraim Dilley and their relatives down to 1963. She was an excellent researcher who documented her data carefully, by sources, and compiled on a computer. After a couple of phone calls, she sent me a copy of her compilation, along with specific items that she needed. I made the trip and reported my results to her. She never answered letters. I kept telling searchers that Sandra was producing a great compilation of Ephraim, and that I was not searching the clan anymore. It took me years to realize that Sandra had quit qenealogy that fall, and that she was busy with computer contract work. Her grandmother lived not far from Cambridge, and previously Sandra visited her at least twice a year and did genealogy. The grandmother died and she quit coming that fall. Sandra's records are unavailable because she has no computer to process them.
Jay D. Andrews
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1870 Census, Rice Co., MN
Dilley, Ephraim 71 Farmer $2000 $320 PA (Samuel lost his
Rachel 68 kphs PA wife in 1861; he
Samuel 67 Brick mason OH born in l.'24; he
William 10 MN age 47?)
Mary, 9 MN
The land records are puzzling! John and Mary Anne (Dilley)
Sills, who quit-claimed for their 1/13 part of Joseph's estate,
were married in 1838. Abraham (Joseph's son?) was paid by E. M.
Dilley $42 on the section 20 quarter of land? James Dilley was
paid
$50 by E. M. Dilley for his share of the estate of Joseph Dilley
There seems to be a page missing for Bulkley Dilley's turn at
an inheritance. Elizabeth Dilley and her husband (2) Irwin follow
for an inheritance, and next came Lucy Dilley and John Morrison.
What about the rest of the 13 children all of whom were still
alive?
I have not gone through the Yahoo list of Dilleys buried in the Northfield Cemetery yet. Northfield seems to be quite a large city. I still do not have a mental picture of the Dilleys who lived at or near Northfield; it will take several runs through these records to identify and recognize who they were. I am enclosing a few accounts of Joseph and Ephraim Sr. There are quite a few families in Minnie's Salt Lake City account, which included families other than Dilleys, that I did not use in my Dilley account. I doubt that the Olson records will be of use to me now that I have the cemetery records. I see that I have repeated the 1870 census that I sent to you nearly a year ago, but I don't believe that 1 had solved who Samuel Dilley was then.
Enclosures: Living sites for the Ephraim clan
New improved families of Joseph Dilley over Minnie's account List
of Guernsey Co. land records, 1802 to 1868
Several 'ts by JDA to Sandra in early years
Sincerely yours,
Andy
Jay D. Andrews
There are a bunch of deeds on section 20!
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(Deed for 80 acres (Sec 20), 21 MAY 1849, Vol. 2, p553-54)
(Ephraim Sr.)
Know all men by these presents, that, we Abraham Dilly and Jane
his wife, Hannah Rose, Enoch Thomas and Anna his wife. heirs at
law of Ephraim Dilly, late of Guernsey Co., Ohio; and in consideration
of the sum of $100 to each of us paid by William Sayer of the
county aforesaid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged,
hath granted, bargained, and sold, and by these presents, grant
bargain and sell, and quit claim to the said William Sayer, all
and right title interest and claims as heirs at law, of the said
Ephraim Dilley, deed of and to the estate, half of the Northwest
quarter of section 20 in township 1, of Range 2, military
District of the lands directed to be sold at Janesville, containing
80 acres, be the same more or less, and lot the estate of the
said Ephraim Dilly, deceased. To have & to hold the above
described premises with the appurtenances unto the said William
Sayer, his heirs and asigns forever, and the parties of the first
part doth hereby covenant and agree to warrant and defend, forever,
the interest hereby conveyed, to the said William Sayer, his heirs
and assigns, against themselves and and heirs:, and all others,
claiming by those ---- under them, In testimony whereof the Parties
of the first part hath hereunto set their hands and seals this
21st day of May of 1849.
Executed in presence of: J. Rhinehart Abraham Dilly (seal)
George Sadist? Jane X Dilly (her mark)
Executed in presence of: Thomas Thompson Enoch Thomas
James Thompson Anne X Thomas (her mark)
In presence of: Noah G. Morrison Ehpraim Dilly
Andrew Morrison Rachel X Dilly (her mark)
William Dilly
Elizabeth X Dilly (her mark)
State of Ohio, Guernsey Co., S8
Personally appeared before me, Subscriber, a Justice of the
Peace, within ---- for said county of Guernsey, Abraham Dilly
and Jane his wife, Hannah Rose, and Enoch Thomas and Anne his
wife, the grantees in the within conveyance, pledge the same to
be their act and for the purpose therein, expressed, Jane Dilly
and Anne Thomas being by me examined, separate and apart, from
their said husbands, each being fully acquainted with the contents
whereof, did declare upon such separate examination, that they
did of their own free will and accord, sign, seal and acknowledge
the same, and that they are still satisfied therewith. Given under
my hand this 29 March 1849:
J. Rhinehart, J. P.
(Similar J. P. accounts for Eohraim Jr. and Rachel
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APPLICATION BY ABRAHAM DILLEY FOR A PENSION IN WAR OF 1812
The State of Ohio, County of Guernsey:
On this 23rd day of June 1871 , personally appeared before me
E. C. Riggs, clerk of the Court of Common Peas, of record within
and for said county and state aforesaid: Abraham Dilley, aged
86 years, a resident of Richland Twp., Guernsey Co., OH, who being
duly sworn according to law, declares that he is a widower, that
his wife's name was Jane W. McCleary, to whom he was married at
Fayette Co., PA on the 16th day of April 1808 AD. That he served
the full period of sixty days in the military service of the United
States in the War of 1812; that he is the identical Abraham Dilley
who was a private in Capt. Simon Bennie's company, don't recall
regiment, brigade, or division, drafted here, Washington, Guernsey
county Ohio, who on the July 1812, and was favorably discharged
at Cambridqe in the said county & state on the 15th day of
October 1812, a part of our company was assigned to guard Copis
& Settler, and were attacked by the Indians in which attack
Warner and Jetree were killed and George Dil was wounded. That
he at no time during the late Rebellion against the authority
of the United States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the
government, giving them diet of comfort; or exercise the function
of any office whatsoever under any authority or pretended authority
in hostility to the United States; and that he will support the
Constitution of the United States; that he is not in receipt of
a pension under any previous act; that he makes this declaration
for the purpose of being placed on the pension roll of the United
States under the act approved February 14, 1871, and he hereby
constitutes and appoints with full power of Substitution and Revocation
of his true and lawful attorney to prosecute his claim and obtain
the pension or certificate that may be issued, that his post office
is at Senecaville, county of Guernsey, State of Ohio, that his
domicile or place of abode is near Senecaville.
Abraham Dilley, Applicant
Also personally appeared, John Hill, resident of Senecaville,
and Robert McClune resident of Senecaville. Persons whom I certify
to be respectable, entitled to credit and who being by me duly
sworn say: They were present and saw Abraham Dilley the claiment
sign his name to the foregoing declaration & that they have
every reason to believe from the appearance of the said claiment
and their acquaintance with him, that he is the identified person
he represents himself to be; that no time during the late Rebellion
against the authority of the United States, die he adhere to the
cause of the enemies of the government giving them aid or comfort,
and that they have no interest in the presentation of this claim.
Robert McClune & John Hill
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