KAY LASH COLLECTION, CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF STEUBEN COUNTY, ANGOLA, INDIANA HANNAH (POWERS) DILLINGHAM, 11 Oct 1828 - 12 Aug 1895 DIED-At Marion, Kansas, August 12, 1895, Mrs. Hannah Dillingham, aged about 66 years. Mrs. Hannah Dillingham was born in Allegany county, New York. She was a daughter of Winn Powers, and came with her father's family to York township in the spring of 1887. She was married to George Dillingham in June 1847. Since about 1854 she has resided just over the state line in Ohio until the death of her husband a year ago. For the past year she has lived with her children in Kansas. The remains were brought here for burial, and funeral services were held at the Powers church Aug. 15, (Old Settler's Day), conducted by Elder D. C. Hanselman. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Hannah (Powers) Dillingham, 12 Oct 1828 - 12 Aug 1895, on 06 Jun 1847, married George Dillingham, 10 May 1826 - 26 Jun 1894. Hannah was the daughter of Winn Powers, 08 Dec 1801 - 24 Jun 1883, and Betsey (Reeves) Powers, 11 May 1801 - 14 Apr 1875. George was the son of Jeremiah Dillingham, 14 Sep 1786 - 09 Aug 1857, and Nancy (Thayer) Dillingham, 31 Dec 1791 - 28 Sep 1883. They were pioneer families who settled in York Township, Steuben County, Indiana. All are buried at Powers Cemetery, Steuben County, Indiana. CHILDREN OF THE MARRIAGE OF HANNAH AND GEORGE: Elisha W. Dillingham, 10 Apr 1848 - 07 May 1854, buried at Powers Cemetery. Laura Jane (Dillingham) Whaley, 17 Mar 1853 - 30 Nov 1916, on 28 Feb 1869, married Jerry F. Whaley, 07 Oct 1847, no date of death. Laura died in Marion, Kansas. In Feb 1918, Jerry married his 2nd wife, Mrs. Emma Robbins. Lorenzo Dow Dillingham, 11 Jul 1855 - 29 Nov 1934, on 04 Sep 1882, married Clara Cedelia/Delia (Williamson) Dillingham, 16 Apr 1865 - 03 Jan 1922. They are buried at Powers Cemetery. Clara died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Otto J. (Lotta) Gaedke, near Perry, MI. SIBLINGS OF HANNAH (POWERS) DILLINGHAM: Myron Powers, 19 Aug 1826 - 20 Sep 1863, on 07 Dec 1851, married Eliza (Dillingham) Powers, 22 May 1831 - 18 Jul 1896. Eliza was the daughter of Jeremiah Dillingham, 14 Sep 1786 - 09 Aug 1857, and Nancy (Thayer) Dillingham, 31 Dec 1791 - 28 Sep 1883. They are all buried at Powers Cemetery. Edwin Powers, 17 Feb 1831 - 01 Dec 1900, on 17 Nov 1853, married Philena M. (Carter) Powers, 1832 - 1855. On 08 Oct 1857, he married his 2nd wife, Clarissa L. (Jones) Powers, 02 Dec 1838 - 05 Apr 1875. His 3rd wife was Ann (Kirk) Malcolm Powers, 15 Aug 1850 - 02 Dec 1920. They are all buried at Powers Cemetery. Calvin `Put' Powers, 19 Jan 1834 - 18 Jun 1911, on 01 Jan 1860, married Nancy Jane (Clark) Powers, 23 Sep 1840 - 06 Mar 1906. They are buried at Powers Cemetery. Nancy was the daughter of Horatio N. and Eliza (Bailey) Clark. Mowry/Morey Powers, 29 Nov 1836 - 02 Aug 1839, page 595 of the "History of Steuben County, Indiana, 1885," states this was the first death in York township, Steuben County, IN. He is buried at Powers Cemetery. Ann Eliza (Powers) Rose, 02 Jan 1839 - 29 Mar 1916, in Oct 1861, married Minard Fitch Rose, 09 Dec 1841 - 08 Feb 1923. They are buried at Powers Cemetery. Ann was the 2nd white child born in York Township. George Riley Powers, 27 Jul 1842 - 21 Jul 1925, on 03 Sep 1864, married Lydia (Hemry) Powers, 21 Aug 1845 - 09 Oct 1929. She was the daughter of Abram Hemry who died 28 Aug 1879, age 66 years, 8 months and 8 days, and his 1st wife, Mary Ann (McClaskey) Hemry who died 15 Feb 1863, age 41 years, 9 months and 15 days. They are all buried at Powers Cemetery. The Powers Family History available at the Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, on pages 41, 42, has this information about the Powers Cemetery: The death of little Morey was the first in the family after they had reached the new homes in Indiana. It was then the Powers Cemetery was established about one-fourth mile north of Powers Corners. Little Morey was the first to be buried in the Powers Cemetery. Winn wrote to his mother in New York state on August 11, 1839: "He died on August 2, and was buried on Clark's land, which he has designed for a family burying ground, twenty- five rods south of my door." Stephen's Elizabeth died the next day, August 3, and he wrote: "A place has been selected on brother Clark's land for a family burying ground. It seems to me like consecrated ground and sometimes it seems as though I should like to be buried there. I wish mother could see it. There is a charm that hangs over the place that is not easily broken." In December of the same year, Calvin's Lorenzo was taken there to rest, and in October 1846, Clark's William Edwin. Winn wrote of the latter: "We bore his little beautiful remains in silence without ceremony to our little grove to sleep with its kindred and mother dust." Each brother was allotted "a strip extending from the driveway to the fence", and within eight years each strip was occupied. Since then, these strips have been filled and many other lots used by the family. The four brothers rest near each other, and their mother and many of the members of their families lie near them; and now it seems like consecrated ground to all of us. "Powers Family History," pages 39, 41, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 79, 139, 140. "Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree Seibel Lewis, Vol. 1, pages 501, 876, 877; Vol. 2, pages 1462, 1463, 1464, 1465, 1466, 1467, 1468, 1555, 1557. Steuben Republican, 21 Aug 1895, "The pioneers" death list, Hannah Dillingham. Submitted by Mona Hilden-Beckwith e-mail: hilbeck123@att.net