Dillman Franklin Shoemaker Wilkins

Dillman married Bernice Blossom Monti on 8 Mar 1932 in Alpena, Alpena, Michigan. Bernice was born on 6 May 1915 in Maple Ridge, Alpena, Michigan; died on 9 Apr 1988 in Cooperstown, Otsego, New York; was buried in East Branch Cemetery, Hancock, Delaware County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dillman Shoemaker Wilkins was born on 7 Oct 1932 in Michigan; died on 13 Jan 2008 in Hillsdale, Bergen, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Brig Gen Wm C Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, Burlington, NJ .
2. Ruth Wilkins was born on 2 Mar 1934 in Michigan; died on 25 Sep 2008.
3. Mary E. Wilkins was born on 28 Nov 1937 in Rivervale, New Jersey, USA; died on 11 Jun 2011 in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA.
4. Ethel Wilkins
5. Homer Franze Wilkins was born on 7 Dec 1942 in Teaneck, Bergen, New Jersey; died on 3 Jul 1993 in Ramsey, NJ.
6. Eugene Wilkins

Notes:

His father was Jacob Croyle, mother Sarah Ann Bentz.

Warrington married Mary Elizabeth Shoemaker on 7 Jun 1908 in Wabash County, Indiana, USA. Mary (daughter of Dilon Ewing "Dellie" Shoemaker and Orpha Lozetta McAfee) was born on 5 Aug 1888 in Bluffton, Wells, Indiana, USA; died on 20 Aug 1961 in Grand Traverse, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Three months after the official divorce Mary remarried in Indiana in 1918 and moved with the children (to Illinois (1922), Ohio (1928), Michigan (1930) and Indiana), Worrie to Florida.

Other Events:

• Name: Dill E
• Name: Dillman
• Name: Dillmond
• Name: Dillon
• Name: Ewing
• Name: Shoemaker

Notes:

AKA. Dellman, Dillman, Dilmond or Dill.

1870-census for Harrison township (Bluffton post office), Wells Co., Indiana on the 25th of June 1870, has Dillman Ewing Shoemaker, age 4, with mother Lydia Shoemaker, age 25, born in Ohio, keeping house, and farmer Warren K. Shoemaker, age 27, born in Ohio.

1880 census for Harrison, Wells, Indiana says Warren Shoemaker is Dillmond Ewings stepfather.

1900, Center Township, Muncie City Ward 5, Delaware, Indiana

1904 Anderson, Indiana, engineer.

Died:
Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947

Dilon married Orpha Lozetta McAfee on 26 Nov 1885 in Wells Co., IN. Orpha (daughter of William James McAfee and Mary Elizabeth Taylor) was born on 3 May 1868 in Jefferson, Wells, Indiana; died on 18 Jul 1942 in Riverside, CA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably born in Jefferson, Wells, IN as family is there in 1870 census, Bluffton post office.

1930 census for Long Beach, Los Angeles, California has Orpha L Shoemaker, widow, age: 61, as a nurse for Horace O. Lewis, age 75. Enumeration District Number: 1143 Family Number: 279 Sheet Number and Letter: 10B Line Number: 70 NARA Publication: T626, roll 131 Film Number: 2339866 Digital Folder Number: 4532462 Image Number: 00026.
Orphas father was born in Ohio, her mother in Indiana.

1936 voter registrations is is registered with superintendent Harry Grant Doddridge. They were married in March, and her father is listed as: F. Mcbride. Her second and his fourth marriage.
1940 census Orpha lived at 628 North Main Street in Elsinore, California, married, but not living with Harry. He was at the institution Rancho Los Amigos in Downey, a convalescent hospital. When he died in 1947 he had been 5 yrs 3 mos 19days at Mar Vista Sanitarium.
Her death is registered as Orpha Doddridge in Riverside, CA, 1942.

Died:
Source Citation: Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997.
Orpha Doddridge
[Orpha McAfee]
Place: Riverside; Date: 18 Jul 1942
Birth Date: 3 May 1868
Birthplace: Indiana
Death Date: 18 Jul 1942
Death Place: Riverside
Mother's Maiden Name: Taylor
Father's Surname: McAfee

Notes:

Parents may be William Ewing and Catherine who had a son Levi b. 1819-1820 in Mohican, Ashland, OH, USA.

This Levi was married 30 Mar 1842, to Mary "Polly" Ann Andrews who died in childbirth and in Dec 1850 to Caroline Mozier who died between the census of June 4, 1860 and his supposed marriage on Oct 30, 1861 to Tamson Marinda van Camp (1846-1918). This marriage I believe is to a separate William Ewing. Tamson remarried in 1868. When their daughter Elizabeth (1863-1939) died this William birthplace is said to be Indiana (not Ohio).

Levi is in Vermillion, Ashland, Ohio in 1850 with his son Elmore b. 1843 by his first wife. He was a carpenter. In 1860 he is in Decatur, Adams, Indiana. He died in Mar 1866 in Decatur.

Decatur is where Dillon Ewing Shoemaker was born. Lydia would then have been Levi's third or fourth wife.

Levi married Lydia Margaret Heckathorn on 21 Jul 1864 in Wells Co., IN. Lydia (daughter of George Washington Heckathorn and Mary Ann Weist) was born on 12 Feb 1845 in Ohio; died on 24 Jul 1885 in Harrison, Wells, Indiana, USA; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Heckedorn
• Name: Hickathorn

Notes:

1870-census for Harrison township (Bluffton post office), Wells, Indiana on the 22nd of June 1870, has Dillman Ewing Shoemaker, age 4, with mother Lydia Shoemaker, age 25, born in Ohio, keeping house, and stepfather farmer Warren K. Shoemaker, age 27, born in Ohio.
On the same page we find George Heckedorn age 53, Joseph Heckedorn age 58 and wife Elizabeth Heckedorn age 60, all born in Pennsylvania. Is this Lydias father, uncle and aunt, or just an odd coincidence? Were George and Mary Ann divorced?

1880 census for Harrison, Wells, Indiana says Warren Shoemaker is Dillmonds stepfather.

Lydia Heckathorn Ewing Shoemaker has a marker next to Warren Kelly Shoemaker and his second wife in Fairview Cemetery, Bluffton.

Notes:

1870 census for Jefferson, Wells, Indiana has William born in Pennsylvania, 1850 for Wooster, Wayne, OH has him born in OH.

1880 census for Lancaster, Wells, Indiana:
William and Mary E. with children: Levi H. Mc Afee age 9, James Mc Afee age 7, Orpha Mc Afee age 12.

Williams parents were both born in Ireland.

Second wife of William MacAfee, was Laura Funk b: in Trumbull County, OH d: February 1918 m: June 12, 1889 in Warsaw, IN. Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/a/Daniel-D-Mcafee/ODT3-0001.html

They were living in Bluffton Ward 2, Wells, Indiana in the 1910 census. Census has William J. born in Ohio.

William has a long list of battles he was involved in in the Civil War.

Obituary for William McAfee : W.J. McAfee Died Suddenly in Detroit : Was Victim of Influenza -- Remains will be brought here for Burial. : Friends and relatives of W. J. McAfee, for years a familiar figure in : Bluffton and Wells County, IN, were saddened this morning by the announcement of : his death, which occurred at six o'clock Monday night at the home of his : daughter, Mrs. Bert Tucker, in Detroit, Michigan, at whose home he was visiting. : Death was caused by an attack of influenza.

: William J. McAfee was born in Wayne County, OH, October 3, 1841, a son of : James and Rachel (Dinsmore) McAfee, natives of County Antrim, Ireland. He came : with his parents to Wells County, IN when he was 12 years of age, and lived with : them here until July 12, 1861, when he enlisted in the United States army, being : the first man to enlist in the three years service in Wells County. : During his army experience, he saw much active service and was a : participant in many of the most important battles of the Civil War, namely: : Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge Atlanta, and the march to the Sea. He also participated in the grand review at Washington at the close of the war and : was honorably discharged August 5, 1865. He was wounded twice, in the head at : Mission Ridge and in the foot at Kenesaw Mountain. : At the close of the war, he returned to his home in Wells County and : engaged in farming on the old homestead first and later on a farm which he : bought, in Jefferson township. In 1870 he moved to Osage, Kansas and lived : there three years, when he returned to Wells County and lived on an eighty acre : farm in Lancaster township, later buying 160 acres in Harrison township, and in : March, 1885, he moved to Bluffton, where he was en gaged in business for a number : of years. In the later years of his active life he was a mail carrier on one of : the rural routes out of Bluffton for many years.

: Mr. McAfee was married on September 27, 1867 to Mary E. Taylor, a native of : Trumbull County, OH, who passed away many years ago. He was married a second : time on June 12, 1889 to Mrs. Laura Johnson (Funk) at Warsaw, IN, who also preceded him : to death several years ago.

The following children survive to mourn a kind and : loving father: Harry and Ellsworth McAfee of Fort Wayne, IN, James McAfee of : Indianapolis, IN, Mrs. Bert Tucker of Detroit, MI, and Mrs. John Shoemaker. : There are also two (three?) step children, Mrs. Earl Myers of Portland, Oregon, : Guy Johnson of Fitzgerald, GA, and Mrs. George Goodspeed of Bluffton, IN. One : sister also survives him, Mrs. Mary McAfee of Murray, and one sister and one : brother, Mrs. James Earl and Sam McAfee, preceded him in death. : Mr. and Mrs. McAfee also took into their home two grandchildren, Mrs. : Arthur Lowe, of Farmington, Washington, and Mrs. Clinton Rice of Lawton, : Oklahoma, and raised them from early childhood. : Mr. McAfee was a member of the Presbyterian church of this city and was : also a prominent member of Lew Daily Post G. A. R. He was for a nnumber of : years commander of the post. : The body will be brought to Bluffton, IN from Detroit, MI Thursday morning : and taken to McBride's undertaking parlors. Complete funeral arrangements have : not yet been made, but the services will be conducted by the Rev. D. C. : Truesdale, paster of the Presbyterian church. Internment will be in Fairview.

William married Mary Elizabeth Taylor on 27 Sep 1867 in Wells Co., IN. Mary (daughter of Levi D. Taylor and Keziah Callahan) was born on 4 Jul 1848 in Trumbull County, Ohio; died on 3 May 1924 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary E. is living as the "widow" of William with sons in Fort Wayne in 1896. And as Mary E Baughman, divorced in 1900, with Ellsworth. Her grave marker has her last name as McAfee Egley. She is a landlady on 1715 Calhoun in 1906-07 and 1910, in 1913 also 1713 Calhoun, no mr. Egly on the records. The marriage license is recorded in the Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel on Wed. Nov 5, 1902. 1917 she is on 1933 Spy Run Ave. 1919 she bought lot 49 Charles W. Scherer's add. of East Wayne Heights for 500 dollars. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette and Fort Wayne New and Sentinel has several real estate dealings in her name.