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Generation: 1

1. Ruth Wilkins was born on 2 Mar 1934 in Michigan (daughter of Dillman Franklin Shoemaker Wilkins and Bernice Blossom Monti); died on 25 Sep 2008.

Generation: 2

Dillman Franklin Shoemaker Wilkins was born on 2 Sep 1909 in Alpena, Alpena, Michigan (son of Warrington Ray Croyle and Mary Elizabeth Shoemaker); died on 20 May 1993 in Hancock, Delaware County, New York; was buried in East Branch Cemetery, Hancock, Delaware County, New York.

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]

Bernice Blossom Monti 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.

Children:

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 .
1. Ruth Wilkins was born on 2 Mar 1934 in Michigan; died on 25 Sep 2008.
Mary E. Wilkins was born on 28 Nov 1937 in Rivervale, New Jersey, USA; died on 11 Jun 2011 in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA.
Ethel Wilkins
Homer Franze Wilkins was born on 7 Dec 1942 in Teaneck, Bergen, New Jersey; died on 3 Jul 1993 in Ramsey, NJ.
Eugene Wilkins

Generation: 3

Warrington Ray Croyle was born on 4 May 1883 in Ridgeville, Randolph, Indiana; died on 23 Jan 1959 in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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]

Mary Elizabeth Shoemaker was born on 5 Aug 1888 in Bluffton, Wells, Indiana, USA (daughter of Dilon Ewing "Dellie" Shoemaker and Orpha Lozetta McAfee); died on 20 Aug 1961 in Grand Traverse, Michigan, USA.

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.

Children:

2. Dillman Franklin Shoemaker Wilkins was born on 2 Sep 1909 in Alpena, Alpena, Michigan; died on 20 May 1993 in Hancock, Delaware County, New York; was buried in East Branch Cemetery, Hancock, Delaware County, New York.
Ray Frantz Wilkins was born on 26 Aug 1912 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA; died on 25 Jun 2005 in Newberry, Luce, Michigan.
Ernest Walter Wilkins was born on 25 Jun 1914 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA; died on 6 Nov 1992 in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio; was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Ida, Monroe, Michigan, USA.

Generation: 4

10.

Dilon Ewing "Dellie" Shoemaker was born on 17 Aug 1865 in Decatur, Indiana, USA (son of Levi Ewing and Lydia Margaret Heckathorn); died on 2 Aug 1925 in Morris, Grundy, Illinois; was buried on 4 Aug 1925 in Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit, MI, USA.

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]

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Orpha Lozetta McAfee was born on 3 May 1868 in Jefferson, Wells, Indiana (daughter of William James McAfee and Mary Elizabeth Taylor); died on 18 Jul 1942 in Riverside, CA, USA.

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

Children:

Lydia A. Shoemaker was born on 10 Jun 1886 in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died on 14 Dec 1915 in Pontiac State Hospital, Oakland, Michigan; was buried in Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit, MI, USA.
5. Mary Elizabeth Shoemaker was born on 5 Aug 1888 in Bluffton, Wells, Indiana, USA; died on 20 Aug 1961 in Grand Traverse, Michigan, USA.