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Subject: Guy Downing Author: ron bechtold Date: 22 Sep 2000 12:00 PM Email:
Obituary from Lafayette Journal & Courier, July 3, 1943:
BATTLE GROUND, July 3. -- Guy Downing, 71, carpenter-contractor, died this morning at the family residence here.
Born in Tippecanoe county, he was married to Dora Jane Kelley, who survives, with a son, Chester, of Lafayette; a
stepson, Norwood Dillman, of Chicago; two brothers, Harry, of Monticello, and Clay, of Battle Ground; two sisters,
Mrs. Bessie Smith, of Delphi, and Mrs. Sally Carter, of Rensselaer. Body at the residence after 7 this evening. Services
Monday at 2. Methodist church. Jackson funeral home in charge.
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Subject: HARRIET (KELLEY) DILLMAN Author: ron bechtold Date: 22 Apr 1999 12:00 PM Email:
LaFayette Morning Journal, Thurday, March 13, 1913:
\t\tHarriet Dillman
Mrs. HARRIET DILLMAN died at her home in Battle Ground yesterday afternoon from heart trouble. Her maiden
name was Harriet KELLEY and she was born in Battle Ground thirty-three years ago. Her entire life was spent in that
place. Mrs. DILLMAN was an earnest member of the Methodist church and was a woman of noble character. She is
survived by her husband and one son, NORWOOD DILLMAN. She is also survived by her father GEORGE W.
KELLEY, and the following brothers and sisters: GEORGE and CHARLES KELLEY, Mrs. ELLA BROWN, Mrs.
DORA DOWNING and Mrs. GEORGE TULL. All reside at Battle Ground, except her brother George, who lives in this
city. The funeral will be held from the Methodist church in Battle Ground tomorrow afternoon at 2:20 o'clock. Rev. C.C.
Jordan will officiate with interment in the Battle Ground cemetery.
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Subject: Dillmans in Battle Ground Author: ron bechtold Date: 16 Mar 1999 12:00 PM Email:
I am interested in learning about the descendants (and ancestors!) of Cline DILLMAN. He is my great grandfather. He
was born in Ohio in 1834, died in 1903 in Brookston, White Co., and is buried in Battle Ground Cemetery. He married
Emily Burgett (1839-1903), the daughter of John and Catherine (HENDERSON) Burget. They had (I think!) 8 children:
Frank V. DILLMAN, b. abt 1857 (he may have married Anna N. Bane in 1884, but when his mother's estate was
settled in 1904, his place of residence was unknown); John DILLMAN, who was a 7 month old baby at the time of the
1860 census, but does not appear later; Martha L. DILLMAN, b. abt 1862, married in 1891 Silas C. SHEETZ, son of
James SHEETZ and Debina (?) CALVERT; Squire W. DILLMAN, b. abt 1866 (I know nothing further!); Charles
(Charley) DILLMAN, b. abt. 1872, married 1903 to May WATKINS, daughter of Joseph WATKINS and Clementine
WARD; Emily (Emma) DILLMAN, b. abt. 1869, married in 1890 to Frank Fletcher FISCHER, son of illiam FISCHER
and Amy ALBURN; Guy D. DILLMAN, b. 1872, married in 1903 to Harriett B. KELLY, daughter of George W.
KELLEY and Mary Jane JACKS (Guy is my grandfather); and Herman Arthur DILLMAN, b. 1880, married in 1925
to Lizzie May LAMB, daughter of J.L. and Anna Lee LAMB.
Guy and Harriett Dillman had just one son, my father, Norwood Arthur DILLMAN, b. in 1906 in Battle Ground, IN.
His mother died in 1913, and Norwood was raised by his mother's sister's family: Dora (Aunt Doad, nee Kelly) and Guy
DOWNING. My father went to Purdue University, worked in Evansville, IN, married Elizabeth F. FROST, moved to
Chicago then on to Plainwell, then Kalamazoo, MI. He died quite young in 1960, and we never really knew much about
his family from Battle Ground. I can remember visiting the Downing farm just once when I was about four years old.
I'd love to hear from the DILLMAN family descendants and find out about Cline, Guy and the others.