Individual Details

Lived in Exeter at time of his father's death. Steiner's book alsonotes he lived in Exeter.

Obituary copied in "Passing in Exeter, An Anthology of Exeter'sNecrologies", at the Exeter Library, doesn't give the newspaper and isdated only "1932". It reads:
"Woodlake Man Dies in Exeter - Exeter, April 22, - Delbert Dillon, 75,a native of Woodlake and a resident of this vicinity all his life,died yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock in his home four miles east ofhere after a lenthy illness of heart disease.
Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Sue Howard Dillon of Exeter; fivedaughters, Mrs. Maude Stewart of Exeter, Mrs. Ruth Collier of Fresno,Mrs. Lena Cummings of Visalia, Mrs. Zelpha Cunningham of Taft and Mrs.May Gray of Santa Barbara; three sons, M. C. Dillon of Exeter, DelbertDillon, Jr., of Three Rivers, and Howard Dillon of Monterey; twobrothers, Henry A. Dillon of Lindsay and Alma Dillon of Porterville,and one sister, Mrs. Joe Green of Lindsay.
Funeral rites will be conducted here at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoonwith the J. M. Hadley parlors in charge of arrangements. Rev. McClarenwill officiate and interment will take place in the Exeter cemetery."

Birth	19 Jun 1858	California
Census	Jun 1880	Kaweah & Mineral King, Tulare Co., CA, pg 18A; Delbert, 21 (1859), born CA, father born SC, mother born Canada. Farmer. Next door to sister Emma and her husband and child.
Census	Jun 1880	Tule River Twp., Tulare Co., CA, pg 109B, ED 102; "A", 21 (1858-59) born CA, both parents born U.S. Believe this is Delbert because of age.
Marriage	10 May 1881	Tulare Co., California - Susan H. COMBS
Voting Register	1898	Index. Delbert #49, Exeter, 37, born CA. NOTE Age is from first registration in Exeter
Census	1 Jun 1900	Exeter Twp., Tulare Co., CA, ED 60 sheet 6B; Delbert, head, 39 born June 1840 (age appears to be OK, but year is not), married 20 years, born CA, no info on parents. Farmer, owns farm free and clear, can read and write.
Census	1 Apr 1930	Exeter Twp., Tulare Co., CA, ED 54-25 printed pg 46, sh 5A; Delbert Dillon, head, rents, 75 (1855), married 22 years, born CA, both parents born United States.
Death	21 Apr 1932	Exeter, Tulare Co., California
Burial	23 Apr 1932	Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, Tulare Co., CA
Reference No		2083

Spouse	Susan H. COMBS (1857 - 1932)
Child	Clara Maude DILLON (1882 - 1955)
Child	Nathan Cuthbert DILLON (1884 - 1955)
Child	Delbert DILLON (1886 - 1954)
Child	Howard O. DILLON (1890 - 1935)
Child	Ruth DILLON (1893 - 1976)
Child	Gertrude DILLON (1895 - 1932)
Child	Kate Lena DILLON (1897 - 1955)
Child	Zylpha DILLON (1898 - 1985)
Child	May DILLON (1903 - 1954)

Father	Nathan Patrick DILLON (1820 - 1903)
Mother	Zylpha VAN LEUVEN (1824 - 1886)
Sibling	Leander DILLON (1843 - 1907)
Sibling	Eliza DILLON (1845 - 1846)
Sibling	Ellen Zylpha DILLON (1847 - 1932)
Sibling	Emily Catherine DILLON (1851 - 1851)
Sibling	George DILLON (1852 - 1915)
Sibling	Samantha DILLON (1855 - 1860)
Sibling	Amanda DILLON (1857 - 1932)
Sibling	Emma Jane DILLON (1862 - 1932)
Sibling	Larinda Annie DILLON (1864 - 1887)
Sibling	Nathan Alma DILLON (1866 - 1934)
Sibling	Henry Anson DILLON (1870 - 1932)