Biographical Sketch of William Smith Dillard, Greene County, Missouri, 
Taylor Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Dillard is the son of William and Sarah (Gregory) Dillard, and was
born in Monroe county, Tennessee.  When he was about ten years of age
his father moved to Greene county, Missouri, and settled upon the farm
of William and his brother George A. now own in partnership.  Here 
their father lived and reared his family, carrying on farming until
his death.  William acquired his education chiefly in the subscription
schools of that day, which were not very extensive or good.  He has 
always been a farmer, and soon after his marriage began farming for
himself on the old homestead, and that has been his chief occupation
since.  He has traveled considerably in his time.  In 1849 he took the
"gold fever," and in the company made up for that expedition by Ex-Gov.
McClurg, went to California as a goldseeker.  He remained there about 
twenty months, and then went by water to Mazatlan, Old Mexico, and from
there came to Texas and sold a drove of horses and mules which he had
bought in Mexico.  In 1852 he returned home, and his travels since then
have been in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Kansas, Arkansas, Indian
Territory and Colorado.  During the war, Mr. Dillard was a Union man
and served in the enrolled Missouri militia, 72nd regiment, and was in
the Marmaduke fight at Springfield.  He married September 20, 1848,
Miss Nancy E., daughter of Thos. Langley, of Illinois.  They have had
ten children, eight of whom are still living.  Mr. Dillard is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, Stafford lodge, No. 497.

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