Family:John Dill and Rebecca Leonard (1)

Research Notes

• According to the obituary of Rebecca (Leonard) Dill, there were 19 children born to this family. Four of them died in infancy (their names are unknown) and one son, Samuel Dill, died in abt 1870 at the age of 25. This number of children conflicts with the number (13) reported by Fox.¹

1. ↑ Family Recorded, in Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne County and the city of Richmond, Indiana: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Wayne County. (Madison, Wisconsin: Western Historical Association, 1912).

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   ... John S. and Rebecca (Leonard) Dill, the former of whom was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, born in 1800, and the latter was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1807. In 1820, as a boy of twenty years, John S. Dill immigrated to the new State of Indiana and helped to build the first house in Milton, having learned the carpenter trade in his native State. He later turned his attention to farming and the greater portion of his farm was reclaimed to cultivation under his direction ; and he became not only one of the substantial agriculturists of the county, but was also a citizen to whom was ever accorded the fullest measure of popular confidence and esteem. He was a man of forceful individuality, guided his life according to the strictest principles of integrity and honor, and wielded much influence in public affairs of a local nature. His political allegiance was given to the Republican party and both he and his wife were members of the Evangelical church. He was summoned to the life eternal in 1869, and his wife's death occurred in 1895.
   
   They became the parents of thirteen children, all of whom are living, except one:
   - Henry is a retired resident of Noblesville, Ind. ;
   - John is a retired resident of Huntington county, Indiana ;
   - Louisiana is the widow of Emanuel Lawson and resides in Berry county, Missouri ;
   - Rebecca is a widow of Peter Livengood and resides in Iowa ;
   - Matilda is the widow of John Burtsfield and resides in Indianapolis ;
   - Jacob is a retired citizen of Huntington county, Indiana ;
   - Lydia is the wife of Adam Fisher, of Iowa ;
   - Susan is the wife of Philip Stetzel, of Huntington county ;
   - Solomon is deceased ;
   - Rachel is the wife of Aaron Scheidler, of Cambridge City ;
   - William W. is the immediate subject of this sketch ;
   - David resides in Kosciusko county, Indiana ; and
   - Israel is a resident of Henry county, Indiana. ...