When Sarah Dillon was born on 17 December 1812, in Oxford Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, her father, William Dillion, was 26 and her mother, Martha Borton, was 22. She married James Head on 19 January 1832, in Guernsey, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 26 September 1898, in Oxford Township, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Fletcher Cemetery, Oxford Township, Guernsey, Ohio, 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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