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Yuma County, Colorado
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Edward E. and Mary E. (Robinson) Dillon

, 3 North 44 West
In 1880 Wayne County, Iowa, Ezekiel Robinson is 69, Sarah 31, with Minerva 8, John B. 6, Alexander 5, Norvel K. 3, adn Mary E. 1.
Ezekiel Kennedy Robinson 1810-1907 is buried in Decatur County, with Sarah Robinson.

In 1880 Decatur County, Iowa, Edward is 7, with Abram Dillon 38 and Jane 37. William is 16, Willis 13, Ettie 10.

Iowa marriage records have Edward E. Dillon marrying Ella Thompson, 17, in Dectur Count March 29, 1898, daughter of Luther Thompson and Arah M. Spicer.
They also have Edward, 26, marrying Mary Robinson, daughter of E. K. Robinson and Sarah A. Burrough, on March 27, 1898 in Decatur County.

In 1900 Decatur County, Edward is farming, born Sept 1872, married two years to Mary E. born November 1878, both born in Iowa.

In 1910 Norton County, Kansas, Edward is farming, 37, with Mary 30. Ira M. 5 and Ivan 2. His brother David C. 27 born in Iowa is with them.

November 1912 Wray, Colorado "Ed Dillon of Norton, Kansas, was in town a few days this week looking for a ranch location."

March 20, 1913 "Ed Dillon and family arrived from Norton, Kansas, the first of the week. They will live on a homestead northwest of here."

May 1913 "Ed Dillon a new homesteader living in the sand hills several miles north of this place came to Wray after a load of lumber last Saturday."

September 1916

1916 Decatur County, Iowa "Ned Dillon, who has been visiting relatives and friends over at his old home in Morgan township, left Monday for his home near Wray, OKLAHOMA. He wawss accompanied by W. H. Coontz of WOodland town ship, who ahs a claim adjoining Mr. Dillon's and will spend the winter there looking after and improving his land Lineville Tribune"

In 1920 Yuma County, Edward is farming, 47, with Mary E. 41, both born in Iowa. Ira 14 and Ivan 12 were born in Kansas.

Edward proved up 320 acres in sections 8, 9, and 17, 3 North 44 West, and another 160 acres by Stock, in 1921.

In 1930 Ed, 57, Mary E. 51, and Ira 25 are in Canyon County, Idaho.

Edward and Mary are alone in 1940 Canyon County.

Edward 1872-1961 is buried in Canyon County, Idaho # 75648077, with Mary Elizabeth (Robinson) Dillon 1878-1980 # 75648004.
"Marriage: March 27, 1898 Lineville, Wayne, Iowa"
Luther 1850-1919 is buried in Decatur County # 133593243, with Arah Matilda (Spicr) Thompson 1856-1914.

Ivan Dillon married Alma Kammeyer on October 17, 1929 in Canyon County.

In 1940 Canyon County, Ivan E. is 32, Alma M. 30 born in North Dakota, Raymond E. 9, Verna L. 7, Ralph 4, all born in Idaho. Ira, brother is 34, both farmers. Helen G. Kammeyer is a sister-in-law, 13, born in Idaho.

Ira M. Dillon married Marjorie Miler Gruler in Canyon County on January 26, 1949.

1957 Middleton, Idaho "Guests in the Ira Dillon home were Mrs. Dillon's cousin, the Rev. Frank Elliott, and his wife of Mishawaka, Indiana. They were en route to Portland, Ore., to attend the Presbyterian National Assembly."

Ira 1905-2001 is buried in Boise, Idaho # 183319712.

Ivan Elmore Dillon 1907-1998 is buried in Caldwell, Idaho # 87394750, with Alma 1909-1998 # 87394747.

Raymond Earl Dillon, 70, Klamath Falls, died January 22, 2001, of natural causes.
Mr. Dillon was born in the farmhouse at the old Walter's place near Caldwell, Idaho, where his parents, Ivan and Alma Dillon, made their livelihood farming. The eldest of five children, he was by age five adept at driving the family's International Harvestor F-20 tractor and helped with all aspects of crop cultivation, planting, and harvesting. He attended Enrose Grade School and played football at Caldwell High School, where he graduated in 1949. Mr. Dillon served as a baker in the Navy during the Korean War from 1949 to 1951 until a spinal cord injury led to his medical retirement at the age of 21. He married his childhood sweetheart, Barbara Heyer of Melba, Idaho, in 1953. In 1963, they moved to Klamath Falls, where he earned an associates degree in diesel technology from Oregon Technological Institue. Depsite physical limitations that had left him in a wheelchair since he was 21 years old, his passion for building led him to design and build numerous homes, RV's, livestock trailers and heavy equipment, such as rock crushers, from scratch. He maneuvered throughout his two shops freely and never let his handicap limit him. Mr. Dillon was a member of Crater Lake Lodge No. 211 and Hillah Temple of the Shrine.
Survivors include his wife, Barbara Dillon of Klamath Falls; children, Alice and Darrell Lorenzen of Indianapolis, Ind., Gordon and Kim Dillon of Vancouver, Wash., and Margaret and Chris Doyle of Milwaukie, Ore.; sisters Velma Michel of Baker City, Mary Bryce of Nampa, Idaho, and Elizabeth Renfrow of Meridian, Idaho; grandchildren, Eldon and Jonathan Lorenzen and Dagney Doyle; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Ralph Dillon.

FindaGrave # 27452359.

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