MRS. MARY JANE BOYD DILLON, WHO HAS BEEN AN INVALID FOR SEVERAL YEARS,
PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. A.T. GINSBACH.
FUNERAL
SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE FAMILY HOME SUNDAY AFTERNOON,
BEING
CONDUCTED BY REV. MR. GORNALL, OF THE METHODIST CHURCH,
AND INTERNMENT
WAS MADE IN THE ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY IN ASOTIN.
MRS. DILLON, WHO'S MAIDEN NAME WAS MARY JANE BOYD,
WAS BORN ON DECEMBER
15TH,1835, IN TUSCARAWAS COUNTY, OHIO
AND THERE GREW TO WOMANHOOD.
AT
THE AGE OF NINETEEN SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ISAAC DILLON ON
SEPTEMBER 5TH,1854.
THE HUSBANDS DEATH HAVING PRECEDED HERS SOMETIME AGO.
TO THIS UNION TWELVE CHILDREN WERE GIVEN,
FOUR SONS AND EIGHT DAUGHTERS,
OF WHOM THREE SONS AND FIVE DAUGHTERS ARE LIVING.
AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN THE DECEASED UNITED WITH THE METHODIST CHURCH.
SHE CROSSED THE PLAINS IN 1873 AND SETTLED IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY
LIVING THER UNTIL 1881.
IN 1884 WITH HER HUSBAND AND FAMILY,
SHE MOVED TO A HOMESTEAD ON THE FLAT BACK OF CLOVERLAND,
AND FOURTEEN YEARS AGO MOVED TO ASOTIN, WHERE HER HOME HAS
BEEN MAINTAINED EVER SINCE.
MRS. DILLON WAS ONE OF THOSE SPLENDID PIONEER WOMEN,
WHO MAINTAINED THE
LOVE AND RESPECT OF ALL WHO KNEW HER.
THE SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE:
MRS. M.J. LEWIS-SILVERTON,OREGON
W.R. DILLON-NAMPA, IDAHO
A.B. DILLON- WALLA,WALLA
MRS. R.A. ELWELL-DAYTON
J.J. DILLON-CHENEY
MRS.A.T. GINSBACH-ASOTIN
JESSIE M. DILLON-SAN-FRANCISCO
MRS.J.E. SHEILDS-SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA