Person:Ephraim Dillingham (1)

Ephraim R. DILLINGHAM was born in Muhlenburgh [sic] County, Ky., December 11, 1833, and is a son of Vachel L., and Elizabeth (Oates) DILLINGHAM, natives of South and North Carolina, of English and Irish descent, respectively. When only a small boy, in the latter part of the last century, Vachel L. DILLINGHAM was brought by his parents to Christian County. Here his father, Jesse M. DILLINGHAM, located military land and subsequently improved a farm, upon a part of which the town of Hopkinsville was afterward built. He was for several years surveyor of Christian County; after his wife's death he lived with his children and relatives in Kentucky and Illinois until his death, which occurred at the home of his son Vachel L., near Greenville, Muhlenburgh [sic] Co., Ky., in about his eighty-seventh year. Vachel L. DILLINGHAM, after his mother's death, which occurred when he was only six or eight -years old, lived with his uncle, Jackson Earle, who resided at the Pond River Ferry, in Muhlenburgh [sic] County. He remained with his uncle until his marriage when he bought a farm near Greenville, where he resided, until his death, in August, 1852, in his fifty-eighth year; he was sheriff of Muhlenburgh [sic] County eight years. Ephraim R. DILLINGHAM was employed on his father's farm until the latter's death, after which he came to Hopkins County, and bought wild land near White Plains, moved into a log-cabin and subsequently improved the farm on which he now resides, and which is one of the best improved farms in the neighborhood. He has added to his original purchase from time to time, now owning 230 acres. After his father's death his mother made her home with our subject until her death, July 25, 1884, in her eighty-fourth year. She was for over fifty years a devoted member of the Baptist Church. Mr. DILLINGHAM was married, April 30, 1858, to Miss Mary J. Yeargin, native of DeKalb County, Tenn., and a daughter of John and Judy (Bennett) Yeargin, natives of Virginia and North Carolina respectively, and of English descent. To Mr. and Mrs. DILLINGHAM have been born six children, five of whom - three sons and two daughters - are living. Mr. DILLINGHAM and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; the children, all except one, belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. DILLINGHAM is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has held various official positions in his lodge. In politics he is a Democrat.

DILLINGHAM Oates Earle Yeargin Bennett = Greenville-Muhlenberg-KY NC SC Christian-KY IL DeKalb-TN VA

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1. ↑ Perrin, William Henry; J. H. Battle; and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: a History of the State: Embracing a concise account of the origin and development of the Virginia colony : its expansion westward, and the settlement of the frontier beyond the Alleghanies; the erection of Kentucky as an independent state and its subsequent development. (Louisville: F. A. Battey, 1887).