Individual Details

She is listed in the Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956, Sheet 22, Page 371. It indicates: Name: Rachel Emily Dillon; Age: 74; Sex: F; Marriage Status: Widowed; Occupation: None; Reads; Writes; Nationality: Canadian; Race: Scotch; Last Residence: Loverna, [can't tell if its Manitoba or Saskatchewan]; Nearest Relative: Loverna, Father Charles E.; Final Destination: Merrill, Wisconsin.
Bonnie Palmer records that her grandmother indicated that Rachael left Eliakum for one of his brothers. Research indicates that this brother is Henry. A divorce record has not been located. See Eliakum notes on his publication of Rachael leaving him.
On 6 January 1894, Rachel Dillon is issued a Civil War Veterans pension in the name of Henry Stevens.
The 1900 Census the Dillons are in Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska. It indicates she was born Jan 1838, immigrated 1840, 7 children, 4 surviving. The number of children is confusing as it appears at this time she had 14 children of which eleven are surviving (Note: the death dates of five of those children have not been determined.)
On the 1920 Census, she is listed as widow Rachel Dillon, age 80, birth place as Canada, mother tongue as Irish, and that she immigrated in 1855(9) and is living with her widowed daughter Mary Degner in Merrill, Lincoln County, Wisconsin.

Birth	9 Jan 1837	Canada
Marriage	Bef 1854	Eliakim (Eliakum) STEVENS
Separation	Abt 1877	Wisconsin - Eliakim (Eliakum) STEVENS
Marriage	8 Jun 1878	Lloyd, Dickinson County, Iowa - Henry Jr STEVENS
Marriage	Abt 1885	Thomas DILLON
Death	Apr 1925	Pelican Lake, Oneida County, Wisconsin
Burial	15 Apr 1925	Merrill Cemetery, Merrill, Lincoln County, Wisconsin

Spouse	Eliakim (Eliakum) STEVENS (1827 - 1902)
Child	Florence E. STEVENS (1854 - 1860)
Child	Abbe E. STEVENS (1856 - 1925)
Child	Mary Elizabeth STEVENS (1858 - 1920)
Child	Charles E. STEVENS (1861 - )
Child	Ida STEVENS (1862 - 1940)
Child	Walter E. STEVENS (1863 - 1886)
Child	John G. STEVENS (1864 - )
Child	Clara STEVENS (1865 - 1904)
Child	Anna Mae STEVENS (1868 - 1950)
Child	Alice M. STEVENS (1869 - )
Child	Henry Eliakum STEVENS (1871 - 1948)
Child	Julia Annette STEVENS (1872 - 1959)
Child	Kate (Katie/Catie) Laid STEVENS (1873 - 1924)
Child	Elmer (Francis E.) STEVENS (1875 - 1899)

Spouse

Thomas DILLON (1828 - 1900)

Spouse	Henry Jr STEVENS (1844 - 1886)
Child	Lily May STEVENS (1879 - )

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