-Firstborn child of Deriah and Almira Dilley, born 1823 in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Fisher Stuart sometimes went by the name Fisher S. Dilley and sometimes by Stuart Dilley.
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-Moved to Delaware County, Ohio with his parents by 1830, moved to Iowa County, Wisconsin with his parents by 1838.
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-Fisher Stuart's parents had divorced by January of 1843, and his mother Almira re-married to a Daniel D. Dilley prior to the 1850 census. Daniel and Almira resided in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
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-1850 WI census, Iowa County, Mineral Point Twp,:
Stuart Dilly, age 26, a clerk, b. PA.
wife listed as Mary A. Dilley, age 19, b. Vermont
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-Sauk County, Wisconsin land documents as follows (Sauk Co. is where his mother and step father were living during this time). Documents span from 1847 through 1863.
Sauk Co. Deed records, Grantee Index C-F, 1843-1915
Seller, Buyer, Date, Deed Book #, page #, type
Arba M. Seymour to Fisher S. Dilley, 28 Aug
1847, A, 324, W.D.
Fordyce Roper to S. Fisher Dilley, 9 Aug 1854, J, 498, deed
Hiram Rounds to Mary A. Dilley (Fisher's first wife?), 1 May 1856,
O, 291, deed
John Wisen to F.S. Dilley, 25 Jun 1863, M, 593, Mtg.
M.S. Parker to F.S. Dilley, 25 Jun 1863, 4, 477, deed
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-1873 Great Register of Voters, Los Angeles County, CA, El Monte Twp. lists a Derial John Dilley, age 68, with place of birth Pennsylvania. His occupation was Teacher. Date he registered was August 11, 1866. There is also a Fisher S. Dilley, age 43, a farmer, also born in Pennsylvania who was registered July 30, 1866.
From the above, it is shown that Fisher Stuart travelled to California to live with/near his father prior to mid 1866.
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Fisher "Stuart" arrived in Utah as early as summer of 1869. From the LDS Family History Suite cd, we find the following mention of "Steward Dilly" in a journal written by David D. Bulloch. It appears that Stuart was travelling with Hyrum Perry to deliver some goods to St. George, Utah in July of 1869:
(David D. Bulloch courted Alice Bladin for nearly two years before she consented to marry him, she having another young man in mind she thought she loved more. Finally she decided Dave would be best for her. She was a beautiful girl, sang in the choir, was telegraph operator, etc. Very neat, clean and a good cook.)
David D. and Alice
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 18, p.229
Our Wedding. The time was set for us to be married in early March
of 1869. All preparations were made....................
The day we arrived in Salt Lake was one of the stormiest days
we had on the road, it snowed. I was married in the Endowment
House, April 5th, 1869, to Alice Bladin. After staying
a week in Salt Lake we left for home staying again at the Gouldsburry
Hotel on our way back.
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 18, p.230
About the middle of July, I received a letter from a man
in Paranaghat saying he would give me $13.50 per hundred for flour
and wanted 50 hundred. I got my flour loaded and mules harnessed
when Bishop Lunt, C. J. Arthur, and Francis Webster come to see
me and said they heard flour was very scarce in St. George
and surrounding towns, and asked me to wait until they saw
Brother Erastus Snow who would be there to hold a meeting at 10
a.m. I unharnessed my mules and waited until Brother Snow came.
I went down to Bishop Lunt's and talked to Brother Snow. He asked
me to wait until after the meeting and he would think the matter
over. He took hold of my arm and we walked together to the meetinghouse.
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 18, p.230
After meeting I met him at the Bishop's again and had a long talk
with him. He asked me many questions, and was I sure of getting
my money? I told him I had done several thousand dollars worth
of business with Mr. McGuffie and he had been very honorable and
had paid me every dollar he agreed to. He said it being so near
harvest he thought the people could get along and I had better
go. After dinner I started and travelled to Antelope Springs
where I overtook, at midnight, Hyrum Perry and Steward Dilly,
whom I intended going with in the morning. These two men were
loaded with grain, butter, eggs and bacon. We travelled together
there and back. I disposed of my lead for the amount offered and
received in greenbacks $675.00..............
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-Circa 1869 Fisher "Stuart" Dilley remarried to Mary Elizabeth Meredith, daughter of James Meredith and Mary Owen, in Utah. It is not known if he divorced his first wife or not.
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-Sept. 1870 Stuart's firstborn child, Samuel Deriah John Dilley was born in Utah. Possibly died in 1913 at Mercur, Utah and is buried in Provo City Cemetery. Worked as a miner. Samuel was baptised into the Mormon religion on 3 July 1881, as recorded in a handwritten journal entitled "Ledger of Rees Jones Williams", Kanarraville, Utah. This journal was donated to Salt Lake City by a Clay Williams. The below entry was shared with me by Ruth Ann Baker.
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-1873 daughter Almira "Annie" Dilley
was born in Utah. Annie married first at age 19 on 4 April 1892
at
Silver Reef, Washington Co., Utah to Alfred Grant age 50. Her
second marriage at age 23 on 25 September 1895 in Utah to Charles
Conelius Carter. Third marriage to a Mr. Aslop or Alsop. Fourth
marriage to Clark Brink. Annie died in Prescott, Arizona in the
1940's.
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-September 1874 Stuart's third child was born in Utah, James Daniel Dilley. James worked as a miner.
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-1878 Stuart's daughter Mary Elizabeth Dilley was born in Utah. Mary married Henry Long in 1900 in Tooele County, Utah. They lived in Arizona and Wyoming as well as Utah.
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-1882 Stuart died in Utah. Ruth Ann Baker said she was told that Stuart became very ill and walked 18 miles for medical help, but died anyway. If they were living in Silver Reef, St. George Utah is exactly 18 miles from there.
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