Margaret Dimler

DIMLER, SIMPSON

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/5/2003 at 14:36:49

Dimler, Margaret M., widow, Section 26 (Harlan township); PO Maynard; with the assistance of an adopted son, she successfully manages a farm of 120 acres. Her late husband, Geroge Dimler, was born in Allegheny, Penn., July 4, 1819; when a boy he was bound out to a man in Ohio, but not receiving the proper treatment; he ran away and came to Illinois; at Rockford he became acquainted with Margaret M. Simpson, whom he married Jan. 1, 1850. Mr. D. enlisted in Co. G, 27th I. V. I.; was discharged on account of sickness. Came to this county in 1868; on the 19th of March 1877, from the effects of internal injuries caused by a spirited horse jarring him against a stall out of which he was trying to lead the animal, he departed this lfe, greatly to the regret of his bereaved widow and all others who knew him. Mrs. D. is a native of Farfar, Scotland, where she was born Oct. 14, 1833; she came to this country, with her parents, when 11 years old; two adopted children -- Thomas F. and Olive were born respectively June 29, 1853, and Jan. 13, 1865.

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