Person:Katie Dillard (1)

According to Jody Dillard:

Katie Louise Dillard 1899-1993

Remembrances from Katie's son Neal:

When as a small child in Bell County I asked Mom, "How come we get new screens for the windows and we still have 'skeeters' in the house at night?" Mom's reply was "The mamma mosquitoes push their tiny babies thru the screen so they can grow up in the house and eat on us."

Katie used to tell us of her childhood enjoyable experiences. Seems that Jerry Dillard had a brother, or close kindred (probably his half brother) who was referred to as Uncle Dan Dillard of Washington State and Vancouver, Canada area. He would write us often and then when the Washington apples were in season he would ship a barrel of apples to Jerry & Leona in Bell County, Texas. When the apples arrived it was "Christmas all over again!" she said. Other times he would send cases of canned Red Salmon from Vancouver B.C. and another occasion fond and vivid in her memory was when Uncle Dan sent them a wooden box (case) filled with 25 pounds of raisins from California.

Another story Katie told many times was about "Uncle Dan Dillard coming across a river from Canada into the U.S. (or vice versa) and was stopped and investigated by the Border Police. They inspected his belongings in the canoe and then questioned him and proceeded to search him. They came upon a small leather pouch and they asked Uncle Dan what this was. Scowling, he held the bag at arms length over the side of the canoe, "It's me gold dust!" he replied "and I'll deposit it here in the deep before ye shall have it!"

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Rootsweb chart of Jody Dillard: James C. Dillard Family wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db jody44.