This was submitted by Joel Franklin the gg grandson of Joel Dillon

“Joel Dillon came to Jefferson Township in the winter of 1855, and has made this his home since. Shortly after he came here, he engaged in the profession of teaching, which he followed for twenty years with the exception of one winter. He enlisted in 1865, in Company A, Eleventh Indiana Infantry, under Col. Daniel McCayley and Capt Henry Kemper. He was principally on garrison duty, and was discharged at Baltimore on account of physical disability July 7, 1865.”

History of Owen County - 1884, Page 905

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