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Mary Turner Dill (1785-1884)

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Mary Turner Dill (1785-1884)

desloan  (View posts) Posted: 26 Jun 2009 2:35AM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Dill, Wadleigh, Turner, Gibson, Stults
Mary is my GGG-Grandmother. If anyone has any information on this family I would love to exchange infomration with you. In particular I only have 6 of her 11 childrens names and would love to learn what the other 5 children's names were.

Butler County Democrat Thursday 21 Feb 1884 p4:5
Mrs. Mary Dill departed this life on the 7th day of February, 1884, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Wadleigh [Rebecca] in Oxford, Ohio. She was born in 1785 in Baltimore County, Maryland. She moved to Muskingum County Ohio, near the site where Zanesville now stands. Many thrilling events of frontier life she could relate as well as Indian encounters, hardships and struggles to endure in order to make a comfortable home, in the wild forests along the Muskingum. Her maiden name was Turner, a descendant of John Turner, who was one of the party that came over to this country in the “Mayflower” 263 years ago. She was the mother of eleven children, of whom three survive her, B. F. Dill, of Chicago, Mrs. Gibson, of Cambridge, Ohio, and Mrs. [Rebecca] [Charles M.]Wadleigh of Oxford, and one sister and brother at Rushville, Ohio vis., Mrs. Ann Stults and John Turner. She was grandmother of 23 children, and some of those children are grand parents. Her husband [Solomon A. Dill 1790-1848] was a private in the war of 1812. She has enjoyed good health until within the last few years, when her health began to fail, and on February 2d she left the house to enjoy the bright sunshine, after a long and severe winter, to walk around in the yard when she fell and dislocated her hip, which caused her death. Her spirit took its flight at 3 o’clock a. m. February 7, 1884, through the dark valley reaching the golden shore, beckoning others to follow. Her mortal remains were laid at rest in the cemetery vault at Oxford until the weather is more favorable for burial, in this connection we may appropriately say, “Life is a mystery, a dark, deep mystery, and man’s boasted knowledge thereof is small.”

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