Hoskins, Benjamin Franklin 1827-1913

HOSKINS, DILLON, PICKERING, MUSICK

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 7/3/2003 at 23:28:38

1879 History of Jefferson County, Iowa, p. 555.
B. F. HOSKINS, farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Pleasant Plain; born in Clinton Co., Ohio in 1827; moved to Illinois with his parents; thence to this state in 1839. Married Miss L. A. Dillon in this county in 1849; she was born in Tazewell Co., Ill., in 1829; have six children - Catharine; Albert (who m. Miss Eleanor Pickering); Benjamin; Cynthia Ann; Luther and Joseph D. . . . .His father, Moses Hoskins, born in Guilford Co., N.C., about 1789; went to Ohio; thence to Illinois; to Washington Co., Iowa, in 1839. . . . .a consistent member of the Society of Friends. . . . .Mrs. Hoskins' father, Joseph Dillon, was a native of Ohio; went to Sangamon Co., Ill., where he married Miss D. Musick; moved to this county in 1839, where he died in 1865. Mrs. D. is still living, aged 72 years.

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