Isaac Llewellyn Dilley

1875-1950 · Iowa

Born 1875, Page County, Iowa

Died 1950

Father: Henry Register Dilley

Children include Paul

Isaac Llewellyn Dilley was born on 18 October 1875 in Page County, Iowa. His obituary gives the year as 1876. His parents were Henry Register Dilley, a farmer from the mountains of West Virginia, and Nancy Jane Cozad, who had married in 1873. Henry settled near Red Oak about 1875 and farmed there for fifty years. In 1885 Isaac was nine and living at Coburg, in Grant Township of Montgomery County.

On 7 June 1899, at Red Oak, he married Alberta Viola Winn, the daughter of John Winn and Ella Crees. She had come to Red Oak from Cedar County with her parents at the age of eight. Their children were Llewellyn, Ralph Marian, Paul Bryan, Ruth Margaret, Helen Esther and Grace. Paul was born in Sherman Township in 1906.

Isaac was a rural mail carrier out of Red Oak for thirty five years. Rural free delivery had begun in the 1890s, and before it a farm family had to go to town for its mail. He retired from the postal service in 1936, and he and Alberta moved to the Nodaway neighborhood. In June 1949 they kept their golden wedding anniversary with a family gathering. Alberta died that November.

Isaac died on Friday, 28 April 1950, at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, after a week's illness. He was seventy four. The funeral was in the Methodist church at Nodaway, with Rev. C. M. Rowe officiating, and he was buried in Evergreen Cemetery at Red Oak beside Alberta. He left three sons, L. A. Dilley of Red Oak, Paul of York, Nebraska, and Ralph of Dunlap; three daughters, Mrs. Carl Johnson of Nodaway, Mrs. John Baker of Villisca and Grace at home; and eleven grandchildren.

Parents

Henry Register Dilley 1847-1925

Children

Paul Bryan Dilley 1906-1973

Sources

Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1944, FamilySearch ark 1:1:Q246-L2Y3.

Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, Montgomery County; FamilySearch.

Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, 1 May 1950, page 4, as transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 125141800.

Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, 17 November 1949, page 4, as transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 125142002.

Red Oak Express, Red Oak, Iowa, 13 July 1925, page 4, as transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 125143296.

Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, birth of Paul Bryan Dilley (FamilySearch ark 1:1:Q246-L2Y3); Iowa, County Births, births of Helen Esther and Ruth Margaret Dilley; Iowa state censuses 1885 and 1925; 1920 census, Red Oak (ark 1:1:M81R-KZP); Find a Grave burial at Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak (ark 1:1:QVGK-WHNW); Obituary, Red Oak Express, 1 May 1950, page 4, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 125141800; Iowa, County Marriages, 1899 (Dilley and Winn); obituary of Henry Register Dilley, Red Oak Express, 13 July 1925, on memorial 125143296.

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