WILL presented by James Wanless, John Wanless and John Waugh Pocahontas Co. 6 Nov 1846
Purchasers by Frederick Burr John Sharp Jr, Joseph Friel, many Lockridge and Burr, Ralph Dilley and Thomas Dilley, Elen and Margaret Dilley, Beverly Waugh, WIDOW Dilley, John Dilley

7 Mar 1847 this sale bill of Henry Dilley, decd was this day turned to court and ordered to be resolved

But no mention of heirs

Original surname could be DILLE


Account Of Henry & Martin Dilley From The Appendix Of The Dille Book
By George Earl, Josephine Kaye, and Earl Kaye Dille
Published in 1965 by Walworth Publ. Co., Marceline, MO

Thomas Ray Dille Visited Pocahontas Co., W. VA (see ltr by TRD), and collected a great deal of material on
the Dilleys of the area. He visited the Dilley graveyard located upon the Heavener Dilley farm near
Marlinton, W. VA, and listed 16 Dilleys buried there. He also listed 14 Dilley families from the 1880 census
for Pocahontas Co., 65 marriage records dated from 1879 to 1907, and 26 wills probated there, ranging from
18 May 1851 when Martin Dilley's will was probated, to Wm. H. Dilley's will probated 23 Nov 1915. This
material is on file in the Library of the University of West Virginia in Morgantown. Much of it is incorporated
in the genealogy and history of Martin and Henry Dilley which follows, and which was sent to us by Arnold
Dilley of Marlinton.

In 1932, Thomas Ray Dille received a letter from L. H. Adams, who was then postmaster of Dille, W. VA, a
town founded by the Dille family in Clay Co. He said that there were no longer any Dilleys or Dilles living
there. He mentioned an Isaac Dilley, who was one of the first settlers, and who died there about 1865. Bill
Dilley died there about the same time, and Alford and Jake Dilley died there about 1892.
The descendants of Henry and Martin Dilley think their forbears may have first settled in Maryland or they
may have been Quakers who came to Pennsylvania with Wm. Penn's colony, or may Have been descendants
of the Huguenots who fled from France about 1685 to England, Holland, or Germany, and thence to America.
Martin claimed to be of German descent. These brothers were Protestants deeply religious, God-fearing men
and taught their descendants that the name Dilley stands for honesty and the power to stand up for what they
believe to be right.

Soon after arriving in Pocahontas Co., Henry Dilley married a neighbor's daughter, Margaret Sharp, and they
settled in Thorny Creek where he built a home and Dilley's Mill--one of the best of its kind in that day, and it
still stands as a monument to its builder. The Henry Dilley estate and the mill are now the property of the
Buckskin Scout Reservation. Henry and many of his descendants are buried in the cemetery on the land
owned by the Reservation. There is another cemetery on the land owned by Gordon Dilley, where Martin
Dilley and many of his family and slaves are buried.

Henry Dilley's son Joseph married the daughter of Joseph Friel, who lived on Greenbriar River five miles
above Marlinton, near the mouth of Thorny Creek. Joseph Dilley and his wife settled this homestead. Henry's
son Thomas, was a Confederate soldier, and his wife was a native of Holland. They lived on Cummings
Creek. Ralph Dilley married a daughter of William Moore near Mt. Zion, and they settled on a section of the
Moore homestead at the head of Moore's Run, which debouches into Knapp's Creek. Daniel Dilley married
the daughter of Dr. Addison Moore, of Edray, W. VA, and he and his wife migrated to Iowa.

William Dilley, Henry’s fifth son, was married three times. He settled in Huntersvi1le, W. VA, as the Village
blacksmith--an occupation in which he evidenced superior skill. He was also an excellent carpenter, and
making coffins was one of his arts. The father of 14 children, he was buried in the McNeill graveyard.
,William and Anne Dilley's son Byron Drepard Dilley, married the great grand-daughter of the pioneer
Jeremiah Friel father of William Dilley’s first wife. Byron spent his life as a woodsman and a reaper with the
scythe and cradle. He was respected for his strength, honor, justice, and fireside stories. Arnold Dilley, a
farmer near Marlinton, is his son. Byron is buried in Fairview Cemetery, and his twin brother Tipton Kohan
Dilley,. and their brother Stephen, are also buried there. Tipton's wife was the daughter of Nathan Barlow, former (line cut off)

John Dilley, sixth child of Henry, was a skillful mechanic. His daughter married Lieut. Poague, a Confederate
officer. A Pocahontas camp of Confederate veterans honored him by naming their organization the Moffett
Poague Camp.