Biographical Sketch of Silas Dillion, Dallas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Silas Dillion, an enterprising farmer of Lincoln Township, Dallas
County, was born in Virginia in 1819, and is a son of William and
Mary (Plyburn) Dillion, both natives of Virginia, who were born
respectively in 1793 and 1787, and spent their lives in their
native State.  They had a family of ten children, seven of whom
still survive, viz.:  Louis Dillion, Jacob Dillion, Lydia Sink, 
Silas Dillion, Jesse Dillion, Reed Dillion, Tyra Dillion.  Those
deceased are Becky Bonson, Polly Dillion and Moses Dillion. 
William Dillion, who was a farmer, died in 1846; his widow lived
until 1876.  The paternal grandparents of our subject were Jesse
and Elizabeth (Blankenship) Dillion of Virginia, where the former
was a large planter and slave holder.  Silas Dillion was reared
in his native State, where he spent his early manhood.  In 1840
he went to Kentucky, and engaged in teaming until 1843, when he
returned to Virginia, but the following year again went to Ken-
tucky.  In 1847 he married Elizabeth J. Vaughan, who was born in
Kentucky in 1830, and was a daughter of Jeremiah and Frances
(Barker) Vaughan, also natives of Kentucky, the former a farmer
and merchant.  Mrs. Dillion died in 1869, leaving seven children,
viz.:  Mary Frances Brown, Jeremiah, Anna E. Wattenboyer, William,
Robert, Jennie E., Bonner and Crawford.  In 1871 Mr. Dillion 
married Sarah E. Sample, a native of Tennessee, and a daughter of
John and Elizabeth Sample, of that State.  By his second marriage
Mr. Dillion has five children, viz.:  Dona Belle Crudginton, Jacob,
John L., Mella S., and Rebecca J.  In 1862 Mr. Dillion enlisted in
Company E, Missouri State Militia, under command of Col. McClurg
and Capt. Allen, and served until the close of the war, participating
in the battles of Sentinel Prairie and Vaughn Station.  He removed 
from Kentucky to Missouri in 1856, and first settled in Polk County,
where he remained one year, and then went to Hickory County, removing
to Dallas County in 1865, which has since been his home.  He owns 278
acres of land, 100 acres of which are under cultivation, and devotes
his attention entirely to farming.  In religion he is a Free Will
Baptist, and politically he is non-partisan.
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