When Rebecca S Dillon was born in 1798, in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel James Dillon Jr., was 40 and her mother, Chloe Ann Farley, was 34. She married John Bailey Callicoat on 13 February 1817, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Franklin, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Hendrysburg, Belmont, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 17 March 1878, in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Gladehill, Franklin County, Virginia, 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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