DILLION Family Genealogy-History

(Updated February 24, 2026)



FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS...


Contributed by Deanna Jean Adams Holm






Deanna Jean Adams Holm
1989




(left to right)
Mahala Morris (2nd wife)
Quincy Dillon (son)
George Wilson Dillon


Front Row (left to right)
George Wentworth Dillon b. 1865,
Deanna Jean Adams Holm,
Amanda Ellen Atha Dillon

Back Row (left to right)
Nancy Tyree,
Quincy Dillon,
Granville Dillon


Deanna with Great-Grandparents
(left to right)
George Wentworth Dillon,
Deanna Jean Adams,
Amanda Ellen Atha
1949


Deanna's Mother,
Shirley Arvada Dillon
1949


Deanna's Mother and Step-Father
When they got married,
Shirley Arvada Dillon and
Oliver Pierson
1949




This photo was taken at the 1949 - Dillon Reunion

(left to right)
Ina Dillon Daniel,
Garnet Dillon Hurt with son Tommy Hurt,
George Wentworth Dillon b. 1865,
Leta Dillon Boggs Honaker,
Amanda Ellen Atha


This photo was taken at the 1918 - Dillon Reunion

(left to right)
Grandmother - Edith Mae Beckelhimer,
Grandfather - Charles Ray Dillon,
Mother - Shirley Arvada Dillon,
Grandmother's Sister - Focie Beckelhimer,
Alice Clyburn (wife of James L. Dillon),
James L. Dillon (right edge of photo)




This photo was taken about 1908

The George W. Dillon Family
In front of their home by Dillon Creek
in Sand Lick, West Virginia


(left to right):
Wilmer F. Dillon
Ocus W. Dillon and Mary Jane Wiseman Atha (on porch),
Amanda Ellen Atha Dillon (in front of steps),
Ina Dillon Daniel, Henry Howard Dillon and Leta Mae Dillon (on steps),
George Wentworth Dillon holding baby, Garnett F. Dillon,
James L. Dillon, and Deanna's grandfather, Charles Ray Dillon (far right).

All the clothes they're all wearing were made by my great-grandmother.
In 1912 she gave birth to her last child, George Doff Dillon. The baby
being held by George is still alive in a nursing home in Fairmont, West Virginia.




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