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Submitted: 1/3/15 • Approved: 1/3/15 • Last Updated: 4/5/18 • R73680-G73678-S3
Ora Bills was the 2nd of ten children of Lorenzo Bills and Permelia Maynard. He was born 12 Aug 1832, Jamaica, Windham, Vermont. Siblings: Oliver Augustine; Oscar Alvin, James Adam, William Henry Harrison, Martin Asher, Marcia Ann, Marshall Ashley, Loellah and Royal John. He died 8 Apr 1870 probably in Henry County, Illinois. The epitaph on the stone reads: "Our father has gone to his mansion of rest."
Charlotte Dillenbeck was the 4th of eight children of Abraham Dillenbeck and Barbara Elizabeth Crawer. She was born the 16 Apr 1837, Jefferson County, New York. Her siblings: Catherine, Noah, Jeremiah, Willard, Myron, Martha and Sandusky. She died 25 Jan 1915, Geneseo, Henry, Illinois.
Charlotte and Ora married 27 Jan 1857, Edford township, Henry, Illinois, and had three children: George Alfonzo, Clarence Myron and Carrie Isadore.
It is believed that Charlotte married Marcus Taft Houghton in 1902, possibly in South Dakota.
Contributed on 1/3/15 by gvand
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