JOHN DELLITT FAMILY
John DELITT
Born: 22 Mar 1769, Lancaster Co. PA
Died: 01 Dec 1845
Parents unknown
Married Barbara ACKERMAN
Born: 30 Aug 1779 Died: 05 Apr 1847
Children of John & Barbara (ACKERMAN) DELITT:
1) John DELLITT
Born: 02 Nov 1810, PA Died: 20 Mar 1877, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
Married Mary A. McMANUS
Born: 14 May 1817, Lancaster City PA
Died: 13 Apr 1895, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
NOTE: John and Mary A. (McMANUS) moved to Duncan, Mercer Co. MO by 1870 Federal Census. They were interred at
Hamlet, Mercer Co. MO
Children of John & Barbara (ACKERMAN) DELITT:
1) Barbara E. DELLITT
Born: 20 Nov 1835 Died: 23 Aug 1869, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
Married Reuben HOUK
2) Levi DELLITT
Born: 19 Oct 1837 Died: 14 Jun 1839, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
3) Infant Son DELLITT
Born: 26 Oct 1839 Died: 26 Oct 1839
4) Mary A. DELLITT
Born: 29 Oct 1840 Died: 1885, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
Married Mr. ARTZ
Children: 1) Minnie ARTZ, Died: 27 Dec 1885
5) Elizabeth "Eliza" DELLITT
Born: 15 Jul 1843 Died: 10 Dec 1846, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
6) Frances "Fannie" DELLITT
Born: 24 Oct 1845, Lancaster City PA Died: 04 Oct 1923
Married Zachariah "Bud" FENDER on 14 Jul 1867
Born: 25 Feb 1848, Owen Co. IN Died: 18 Jun 1925
Child: 1) Beulah FENDER married Mr. SMITH
7) John W. DELLITT
Born: 13 Feb 1848, Lancaster, Lancaster Co. PA Died: 1925, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
Married Barbara E. (?) 10 Feb 1875, Rock Island IL
Born: May 1857 IL
Children: 1) Leroy DELLITT, Born: circa 1878, IL
2) Lewis DELLITT, Born: May 1880, IL
Married Myrtle WAKELAND
Children of Lewis & Myrtle (WAKELAND) DELLITT:
1) Nettie DELLITT
2) Alvin L. DELLITT
Born: 12 Sep 1904, Duncan Twp. Mercer Co. IL
Died: 10 Jan 1992, Moline IL
married Nellie JOHNSON 22 Aug 1930, Wayne NE
Nellie (JOHNSON) DELLITT died: 21 Feb 1976
8) Abraham R. DELLITT
Born: 15 Jul 1850 Died: Hamelt, Mercer Co. IL
Married 26 May 1879 Laura (?)
Born: 28 Aug 1859 Died: 26 May 1879, age 19
9) Annie DELLITT, Born: 20 Jan 1853
10) Amanda E. DELLITT
Born: 13 Jun 1855, OH Died: 26 Apr 1887
Married Jacob H. PATTERSON 24 Dec 1883, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
Born: 1854, Iowa City IA
11) Laura Emila DELLITT, pictured at right
Born: 27 Sep 1857, Hamlet, Mercer Co. IL
Died: 15 Dec 1899, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
Married Stewart Lafayette THOMPSON
Born: 15 Feb 1885, Warren Co. IL
Died: 06 Dec 1940, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
son of Stephen Newell THOMPSON
born 25 Jun 1821, PA
crushed to death 14 Sep 1874 Mount Ayr
& Catherine Thomas (BALDRIDGE)
born 17 Sep 1821, Adams Co. OH
died 28 Aug 1906, Mount Ayr IA
Laura & Stewart interred: Oliver Cemetery
Monroe Twp., Ringgold Co. IA
Stewart Lafayette and Laura Emila (DELLITT) THOMPSON
Children of Laura Emila (DELLITT)
& Stewart Lafayette THOMPSON:
1) Delitte THOMPSON
Born: 25 Nov 1888, IA
Married 1912 Ringgold Co. IA Elva Maude ATWOOD, born 1889 IA
Children of Dellitt & Elva Maude THOMPSON:
1) Alvin THOMPSON, Born: 1913, Ringgold Co. IA; married Inez CLARK
2) Laura Lucile THOMPSON
Born: 01 Mar 1915, Liberty Twp., Ringgold Co. IA Died: 27 Dec 1999, Mount Ayr IA
Married Wayne BENSON
3) Joseph THOMPSON, Born: Apr 1917, Ringgold Co. IA
4) Elenor THOMPSON married Orville CAMPBELL
5) Joseph "Joe" THOMPSON married Cleone JOHNSON
6) Phyliss THOMPSON married Ernest L. MOORE
2) Grace Leona THOMPSON
Born: 09 Feb 1890, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
Died: 08 May 1958, Beaconsfield, Ringgold Co. IA
Interment: Oliver Cemetery, Monroe Twp., Ringgold Co. IA
Married Parks Meredith ELLISON 02 Jan 1908, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
 
Born: 22 Apr 1883, Oka, Calhoun Co. WV
 
Died: 05 Oct 1959, Beaconsfield, Ringgold Co. IA
 
son of John Wesley ELLISON (1853-1921)
 
& Emma Sedalia (WATSON) (1858-1940, Tingley IA)
Parks Meredith and Grace Leona (THOMPSON) ELLISON Wedding Day, January 2, 1908, Mount Ayr, Iowa
Children of Grace Leona & Parks M. ELLISON:
1) Lula Laverne ELLISON
Born: 09 Sep 1910, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
Died: 16 Feb 1980, Ellston, Ringgold Co. IA
Interment: Oliver Cemetery, Monroe Twp., Ringgold Co. IA
Married Francis Leonard MATHANY 24 Nov 1927, Mount Ayr, IA
 
  Born: 12 Jan 1902, Beaconsfield IA
 
  Died: 11 Mar 1952, interment Oliver Cemetery, Monroe Twp., Ringgold Co. IA
 
  son of Earnest & Gertrude (CLAYTON) MATHANY
2) Edna Evelyn ELLISON
Born: 28 Oct 1912, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
Died: Jul 2002, Interment: Winterset Cemetery, Winterset IA
Married Delbert Avery DOLSON 10 Jun 1933, Creston IA
 
  Born: 10 May 1901, Ellston IA; Died 03 Jan 1982, Winterset IA
 
  son of James Hugh DOLSON (1854, NY - 1938, Mount Ayr IA)
 
 
& Celesta (CORNWALL) DOLSON (1865 IA - 1945, Mount Ayr IA)
3) Stewart Veril ELLISON
Born: 24 Jun 1915, Snyder CO Died: 26 Mar 1993, Kansas City KS
Interment: Oliver Cemetery, Monroe Twp., Ringgold Co. IA
Married 08 Aug 1942, Mineral Wells TX to Opal Rudeen FREEMAN (1910 - 1999)
4) Pauline K. ELLISON
Born: 02 Feb 1918, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA Died: 12 Dec 1980, Golden CO
Interment: Crown Hill Memorial Park, Wheat Ridge CO
Married Earl James LEWIS 26 Dec 1936, Golden CO
5) Herbert Wayne ELLISON
Born: 06 Sep 1920, Beaconsfield, Ringgold Co. IA Died: 09 Dec 2002, Eden TX
married 1st Velma ROBBINS; married 2nd Genevieve Mary MILLER (1823-1978)
6) Marjorie Lois ELLISON, Born: 25 Feb 1923, Ellston, Ringgold Co. IA
married 25 May 1940 Harold Edward ADKISSON (1921-2008)
son of Fred Eugeon ADKISSON (1899-1975) & Elise Frances (HOLBROOK) (1896-1922)
3) Anna Lois THOMPSON
Born: 14 Sep 1891, IA Died: 09 Aug 1922
Married Edward Cornelius WOOD
Born: 26 Sep 1886 Died 01 Aug 1935
Children of Anna Lois & Edward C. WOOD:
1) Berwin Lloyd WOOD, married 1st Velma YARYAN; married 2nd Cleo Ida YOUNG
2) Erma Pearl WOOD married Clarence Albert HARRIS
3) Velmar Adrain WOOD
married 1st Mildred T. ANDERSON; married 2nd Bernice PAUSTIN (1915-1962)
4) Infant Son WOOD, born 09 Aug 1922 died 09 Aug 1922
4) Newell Baldridge THOMPSON
Born: 18 Dec 1892, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
Married Fannie ARNOLD & had a son, Virgie THOMPSON
5) Infant Son THOMPSON
Born: 1895, IA Died: 23 Apr 1895
6) Wilford S. THOMPSON
Born: Oct 1896, IA Died before 1900
7) Muriel Catherine THOMPSON
Born: 06 Nov 1906, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
NOTE: Stewart Lafayette THOMPSON married 2nd January 6, 1906 to Barbara (SALTZMAN) SHAY WOOD. Barbara was born
April 21, 1864 and died March 6, 1951. She was the widow of Jim SHAY and David WOOD. Stewart and Barbara had two children:
1) Muriel C. THOMPSON, born 06 Nov 1906, Mount Ayr, Ringgold Co. IA
2) Kenneth Ivan THOMPSON, born 06 Aug 1908; died 21 Feb 1973, Las Vegas NV married Bertha NAZARINE
12) Benjamin Harvey DELLITT
Born: 24 Mar 1860 Died: 14 Oct 1906 Married Anna (?)
13) Alvehdore E. "Alva" DELLITT
Born: 04 Jul 1862
NOTE: Catherine America THOMPSON, daughter of Stephen Newell & Catherine Thomas (BALDRIDGE) THOMPSON, was
born April 21, 1852, Adams Co. OH; married 1st J. A. OGIER; married 2nd September 11, 1875 George W. NOBLES
(1837-1878); married 3rd April 13, 1905, Mount Ayr IA Harry A. PARSONS (? -1917); died March 21, 1941 in Valley Falls KS with interment at Oliver Cemetery, Monroe
Twp., Ringgold Co. IA
NOTE: Emma Carolina THOMPSON, daughter of Stephen Newell & Catherine Thomas (BALDRIDGE) THOMPSON, was
born November 14, 1863, Warren Co. IL; died of cancer on March 12, 1909, Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, IA; interment at Oliver
Cemetery, Monroe Twp., Ringgold Co. IA; married 1st Irwin E. MOORE
married 2nd February 18, 1882 to Oscar Alvarrao RICHEY [born 1851 PA; died 18 Jan 1927, Norfolk NE];
mother of Oryn Clair RICHEY.
NOTE: Oryn Clair RICHEY, son of Emma Caroline (THOMPSON) and Oscar Alvarrao RICHEY, was born in Liberty Twp., Ringgold Co. IA
February 11, 1882; died August 5, 1945, Liberty Twp., Ringgold Co. IA; interment at Oliver Cemetery, Monroe Twp.,
Ringgold Co. IA; married August 5, 1907 to Ruby COX who was born May 11, 1885 in Liberty Twp., Ringgold Co. IA and
died March 22, 1944. Children of Ruby (COX) and Oryn Clair RICHEY:
1) Audrey Cleo RICHEY married Kenneth HAGVE
2) Cleta Lavern RICHEY married Oral GERMAN
3) Doris Elaine RICHEY married Dale COVERDALE
4) Velda Roberta RICHEY married Carl Axle FENTON
5) Duane Clair RICHEY
Born 24 Feb 1905, Ringgold Co. IA; married 1st Phyllis HILL; married 2nd Clare WILSON
6) Thelma Ruth RICHEY
Born: 19 Aug 1908, Ringgold Co. IA Died: 08 May 1944
Married John R. TURNER 03 Mar 1934
Born 28 Jan 1894, KS; Died 17 Feb 1952; Interment Kansas City KS
Thompson-Dolson photographs courtesy of Gene Dolson, April of 2010
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