William Foster + Elizabeth Heath
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Absalom Dillingham + Rebecca Foster
1770 - 1837 abt 1794 1779 - 1847
now Franklin Co Va Big Ivy Bunc Co NC Swannanoa Bunc Co NC Bunc Co NC Big Ivy Bunc Co NC
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William Dillingham (Mary Burlison), 1795 - 1867
Elizabeth Dillingham (William Foster Cullen), 1797 - 1815
Margaret Dillingham (William Carson), 1799 - 1857
Thomas Foster Dillingham (Mary Anderson), 1802 - 1881
Hiram Dillingham, 1805 - died young
John Wilson Dillingham (Mary Jane Stevens), 1807 - 1867
Mary Dillingham (Joseph Swain Barnard), 1809 - 1881
Alfred Burton Dillingham (Delila C. Stevens, Catherine E. Stevens (Hudspeth, Carson)), 1812 - 1900
Source: Margaret Wallis Haile, "The Dillingham Family", Heritage of Old Buncombe County, Vol I, 1981 (Doris Cline
Ward, Editor), p. 196.
"Acquiring land in the Big Ivy section, Absalom and Rebecca Dillingham became the first permanent
settlers of the area, and built the house at Mountain Valley which was home to four generations of
Dillinghams. This original house was razed about 1901 when a new county road was surveyed through
the homestead. Since then several descendants of Absalom and Rebecca have built homes on the
same tract, removed only a short distance from the site of the first dwelling . . . .
"Over a thirty year period, Absalom Dillingham purchased several tracts adjoining his original property
until by the time of his death his real estate holdings were among the most extensive in the county. He
was also one of the few slave owners in the Big Ivy area . . . .
"Absalom Dillingham . . . and Rebecca (Foster) Dillingham . . . were buried on Dillingham land, a site
selected by Absalom and given to the community for a cemetery many years earlier. The Absalom
Dillingham Cemetery is located on what was formerly Round Hill Branch, no known as Williams Branch,
one and a half miles south of Barnardsville, off Dillingham Road."
- Margaret Wallis Haile, "The Dillingham Family", Heritage of Old Buncombe County, Vol. I, 1981 (Doris Cline
Ward, Editor), p. 196.