William Morris Dilllon was the son of Thomas Dillon (1819-1885) and Sarah (Sally) Ann Morris (1818-1898), grandson of John Dillon (1785-1848) and Rachel Hamilton (1785-1840). He was a member of the 22nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Though he was from Lewisville, Monroe Co., OH, he first married a Rachel Farley and was living with her family in Iowa at the outbreak of the Civil War. During the course of the Civil War, a daughter, Hattie Belle Dillon, was born to Rachel Farley at home in Iowa. By 1866, Rachel filed for divorce "on grounds of willful absence." It seems William never returned to his Iowa family after the Civil War. William apparently challenged his "natural father" status involving Hattie Belle Dillon, and eventually a divorce followed (he was the plaintiff, she was the defendant). By 1867, he married his second wife, Amy Ellen Givens. She is also buried in this cemetery. This cemetery is more correctly designated the Lewisville German Lutheran Cemetery, located to the rear of the former site of that church at the top of the hill in Lewisville.
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Civil War Veteran
Co F 22nd Iowa Infantry

From Military Records:
Dillon, William M.
Age 24.
Residence Iowa City,
Nativity Ohio.
Enlisted Aug. 13, 1862.
Mustered Aug. 26, 1862.
Transferred to Invalid Corps April 30, 1864.
Discharged July 6, 1865,Wilmington, Del.

The 22nd Iowa mustered at Camp Pope near Iowa City. Battles included Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, Big Black River, the suicidal, ill-advised attack of well-fortified Ft Beauregard at Vicksburg, MS, the long siege of Vicksburg that followed, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign - Berryville, Opequon, (Winchester), Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek , Virginia as well as many other skirmishes less well known. (From "The Union Army" Vol 4 published 1908.)

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