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Welcome to the
Dillow Family Homepage
The purpose of this website is to provide information on research that has been done on the Dillow Family. Our branch of the Dillow's came from Southwestern Virginia. If you can trace your Dillow roots to Bland, Smyth, Tazewell or Wythe Counties in Virginia; Boyd, Carter, Greenup, or Lewis Counties in Kentucky; Lawrence or Scioto Counties in Ohio; or Mercer or Logan Counties in West Virginia; then you are most likely a member of our family.
As of now we trace our roots back to one man named Abram Dillow. As you scoll through the website you will see that it begins with Abram Dillow and followed by his children. Most all the information on this website has been contributed by fellow family members. Without their help and contributions none of this would have been possible.
This site is dedicated to my daughter Erica, my wife Cheryl, my mother, Helen, and to the loving memory of my father, George, and my daughter Olivia, gone but not forgotten.
Abram Dillow Sr., the probable father of our Abram Jr., was born circa 1720. Nothing is known about Abram's wife, Mary, other than her first name. Abram was a member of Zachariah Johnston's Company, Augusta County, Virginia during the American Revolution but was exempted for age in 1778. Abram (Delo) was also mentioned in the Minutes of West Augusta in the tax records for 1778. Abram Sr. and Mary are believed to have been the parents of at least four known children: James born about 1764, William born about 1766, Abram Jr., and Elizabeth born about 1776, married William Mullin on June 16, 1794 in Montgomery County, Virginia. Abram Sr. appeared on the 1793 Wythe County, Virginia tax list along with sons James and William. The last name was spelled "Dillon" on that record. There was also a Samuel Dillon listed but his relationship to them is undetermined. On the 1800 Wythe County Tax List, May 24th, Abram Sr., Abram Jr., James, and William were listed. The last name was spelled "Dillard" on that record. This is the last place Abram Sr. is seen on public record. Any further information on Abram Sr.'s sons James and William is minimal, and their families are unknown at this time.
The father-in-law of Abram Dillow Jr., Robert Steele, is a well-documented frontiersman and soldier. His life and family history has been recorded by his descendant, Carl Edmond Steele Jr., in A Gathering of the Clan published in 1981. The Steele family traces it roots back to Argyll County, Scotland. Robert's parents were Ruben and Hannah Crockett Steele. Ruben's parents were Alexander and Hannah King Steele. Alexander was the leader of the famous McGregor Clan in Scotland. Ruben's wife, Hannah Crockett, appears to have descended from Antoine Dessasure Pernonette de Crocketagne' a French Huguenot. Other children of Robert and Polly Keeling Steele were James, Samuel, Jeffery, Edmond, William, John, and lastly Elizabeth. Robert Steele remarried after the death of Polly to Rebecca Oury and had the following children: David, Rueben, Robert, Catherine, Crockett, George, Nancy, and Oury.
We know from land records that Abram Dillow died about 1852. Elizabeth Steele Dillow lived on a few years past her husband. She last appeared on public record on the 1860 census living with her son William. She apparently died sometime between 1860 and 1870 as she did not appear on that census. No known burial record or marker exist for Abram or Elizabeth.
Children of Abram Dillow and Elizabeth Steele are: