On Sunday, August 6, 2000, hawkeyes@rogersark.net wrote: ------------------------ "I printed several newspaper articles out from the Port Byron Globe newspaper. I was reading other info that was on the same pages as my info. There is an obit for a Joshua DILLON b 5 Oct 1829 Gurnsey Co, OH, married to Mary Jane DILLON 3 Sept 1852. Her maiden name was also DILLON. Joshua died in Rock Island Co, IL in 1910. The date on the paper was 17 Feb 1910." ------------------------ ..... >> This is from a book that lists pioneer & settlers of Coe Twp, Rock Island >> Co, IL. Coe Twp is just out side of Port Byron. Port Byron will be on >> the map, right on the Mississippi River, north of Moline & Rock >> Island. There are two DILLON settlers listed: Joshua in 1856 & a David >> in 1857. I have a copy of the 1905 land plats for Coe Twp, & didn't find >> either of these other names, but did find a William DILLON with 116 acres >> in sec 34. Wm is probably son to one of these guys. I have a William DILLON off the edge of my family tree in Guernsey County. He married Margaret BORTON and they had a daughter named Phebe (b. 1810, OH), who married Archibald CRANSTON (my 4-great granduncle) on 8 JAN 1827 in Guernsey Co. Their third son was named William Dillon CRANSTON, in almost perfect Scots-Irish tradition. I'm told that Phebe had a brother named James, but don't know anything else about the family. It's possible that James or another brother might be the father of the Joshua and/or David DILLON mentioned above. On a related note, Archibald CRANSTON's older brother James and his family went to Iowa in the early 1850s. For a while they were located in DeWitt, Scott Co., just across the river from Rock Island, so this seems to be a common migration. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson phssra@physics.emory.edu Administrator, {C{offield,ollosky,ranston,ummins},OHGuerns}-L@RootsWeb.com USGenWeb Coordinator, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/oh/county/guernsey/