When Elmer Leroy Dillon was born on 7 March 1875, in Carlinville Township, Macoupin, Illinois, United States, his father, John William Dillon, was 34 and his mother, Sara Ellen Preble, was 30. He married Rena Gladys Bush on 22 October 1910, in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Reno Township, Reno, Kansas, United States in 1920 and Godfrey, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died on 21 July 1949, in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States.
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English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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