Brief Life History of Absalom
When Absalom Dillon was born on 8 May 1787, in Guilford College, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Daniel Dillon Jr., was 30 and his mother, Ann Pugh, was 22. He married Gulielma Tuly Hiatt in 1818, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1830. He died on 11 July 1834, in Tremont, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Dillon Cemetery, Tremont, Tazewell, Illinois, United States.
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- Absalom Dillon, "United States Census, 1830"
- Absalom Dillon, "Find A Grave Index"
- FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org)
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1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
1789 · Becomes 12th State
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
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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From: The 1879 History of Tazewell County, Illinois, published by Chas C. Chapman and Co, Chicago
"Mr. Shipman came from Kentucky in 1826....He brought with him to this township a negro man, his wife and children. He treated them kindly and they in turn loved him. They all lived here in peace an …
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