My earliest DILLON ancestor is Reuben Miller DILLON. He was born in 1832 in Kentucky (county or town unknown). By the late 1850s he had moved to northeastern California. Reuben had two wives. The first was Eliza A. Satchwell. From that marriage four children were born: Sarah A. DILLON, born about 1859 in California Elizabeth May "Lizzie" DILLON, born August 26, 1860 in California and died October 13, 1950. She married ? McPhee. William Benjamin DILLON, born January 21, 1863 in Plymouth, Amador county, California and died May 9, 1898 in Hayden Hill, Lassen county, California. He married Harriet "Hattie" "Nam" ANDERSON on October 2, 1887 in Hayden Hill, Lassen county, California. Mariah F. DILLON, born about 1864 in California. Reuben's second wife was Mary Margaret BRICE (married December 2, 1872 in Plymouth, Amador county, California.) Eight children resulted from that marriage: Claude E. DILLON, born 1882 in Amador county, California and died 1882 in Amador county, California. Christina Lucinda "Lou" DILLON, born December 1872 in Plymouth, Amador county, California and died December 6, 1969 in Jackson, Amador county, California. Ralph C. "Pat" DILLON, born June 24, 1878 in Plymouth, Amador county, California and died December 3, 1953 in Plymouth, Amador county, California. James M. "Jim" DILLON, born May 1880 in Plymouth, Amador county, California and died in 1923 in Plymouth, Amador county, California. George M. DILLON, born January 20, 1884 on Dillon Ranch, Shenandoah Valley, Amador county, California and died December 6, 1954 in Placerville, El Dorado county, California. Reuben R. DILLON, born February 17, 1889 in Plymouth, Amador county, California and died 1889 in Plymouth, Amador county, California. Ruby DILLON, born February 17, 1889 in Plymouth, Amador county, California. Cloice Leroy DILLON, born July 6, 1894 in Plymouth, Amador county, California and died July 13, 1970 in Jackson, Amador county, California. He married Jessie (Clark) Labadie. Full details of the descendants of Reuben Miller DILLON are on my website at the URL below. I'd like to exchange information with anyone researching this DILLON family or related families. Bill Dillon http://members.aol.com/wbdillon/wa3scw.htm