Golden-Hubbard Ancestry - Reuben Dillow

Reuben Dillow

M, #724, b. 1812

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Reuben Dillow was biography http://www.rootsweb.com/~iabiog/adair/ga1884/ga1884-orienttwp.htm
Reuben Dillow - The pioneer settler of the territory now known as Orient township is found in the personage of Reuben Dillow, a native of Ohio, who emigrated to Iowa and entered land upon section 26, in July, 1860. He immediately set to work erecting asmall shanty for himself and family, which after completed, admitted rain and snow. He tells some interesting but pitiful circumstances of hardships endured in early days. He together with his family lived here by themselves for five years before another family came to the township. Their nearest neighbors at that time were some fifteen miles distant. He was acquainted at that time with every person in the entire county, which only contained sixty-two voters. They used to go to Afton and Winterset for milling and provisions, it being the nearest point, some twenty miles distant. Mr. Dillow never received any schooling, learning to read after he was thirty years of age, but, nevertheless, was naturally a shrewd manager and quick at figures--mentally speaking. He was prosperous from the first after he emigrated to Iowa, and accumulated considerable property, but through reverse of circumstances and his generosity in assisting others by indorsement, he has lost everything. He resides now upon section 36, and as he is too old to work, his sons remember him substantiallly in his old age.
Reuben Dillow was born in Ross county, Ohio, in the year 1812. He was the son of John and Elizabeth (Durflinger) Dillow, who were both natives of Virginia. His father died the year he was born, 1812, in Ross county, Virginia. In 1833, accompanied by his mother, he went to Indiana, where he remained eleven years engaged in farming, after which he returned to Ohio, where he remained until 1860, when he emigrated to Iowa, settling in Adair county upon section 26, Orient township. His mother died in 1845 in Indiana. He was first married in Hamilton county, Indiana, August 16, 1835, to Julia A. Peck, 'Squire Z. Buckweth officiating. She died July 10, 1840, leaving two children--William M. and Elizabeth. He was married the second time January 6, 1842, in Hamilton county, Indiana, to Mary A. Rife, Rev. Huffaker officiating. The union was blessed by the birth of five children, three of whom are living--Catharine A., Mary E. and Pleiades. His second wife died May 18, 1855, in Montgomery county, Ohio. He was again married November 9, 1856, to Eliza A. Welsh, in Mongomery county, Ohio, Rev. William R. Rhinehart officiating, following which six children were born to them--John R., Frederick J., Reuben L., Peter M., Joseph M. and Charles S.

Birth*

1812

He was born in 1812 at Ross Co., Ohio.

Census1840*

1840

He was the head of the household in the 1840 census, pg 268, Whiteriver Twnshp, Hamilton Co., Indiana with 1m20-30 (Reuben) 1f0-5 1f20-30.

Last Edited

27 May 2005