‘Catherine Rose was English, very prim and strict. Muzzie (Carrie Proctor Dildine) said she was a very cold woman. It is said that she didn’t approve of hanging underwear outside on the line to dry so people could see it, although someone said it was better to show that you had underwear than none at all. With ten children, perhaps there was no time to laugh or be gay. She must have been a brave person though. One day, when Indians were prowling around the house and she was washing, she poured boiling water out of the window onto them.’

Migrated with her parents in 1849 to Indiana.

1870 Federal Census. Age 39 living in Neosha Co., Kansas with husband Ralph, age 41 and 9 children.

The Chanute Times
> March 10, 1881
> Chanute, Neosho, Kansas United States
> Page 3
- Estate of R. DILDINE, deceased, Administratrix files inventory and
appraisement, and is ordered to sell personal property at private sale.
-Catharine B. DILDINE appointed Administratrix of Ralph DILDINE.

Son of Samson L. and. Sarah M. Dildine, born at Hartford, Blackford County, Indiana, 23 March 1827, died in Neosho County, Kansas 30 Dec. 1880. He married in Blackford. County, Indiana 7 Nov. 1850 to Catherine Bernard Rose, daughter of Daniel and Susannah (Brown) Rose. Her mother is said to have been kidnapped and brougt to the colonies from Cornwall, England. Catherine was born at Harper's Ferry, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia and migrated with her parents in 1849 to Indiana.

Ralph enlisted as a Private in Company D, 59th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers on 30 Nov 1864 and served in the Civil War with the Union Army. He was with General Sherman on his "March to the Sea" and was honorably discharged July 17, 1865. He migrated with his family to Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas in 1868. Ralph was a sone mason by trade. He and Catherine, along with their children Margaret, Edgar and Nathan are buried in the family plot, Mt. Hope Cemetery, Galesburg, Kansas.

Source: Verne Ross Clark
DOB for Ralph Dildine is 23 Mar 1828, Ohio Ralph DILDINE is buried next to his wife, Catherine Bernard (ROSE) DILDINE in the Galesburg Cemetery, Galesburg, Kansas. Have letter from the caretaker who gave me the inscriptions on both tombstones - Ralph DILDINE - Dec. 30, 1880 - 52 y 9 m 7 d - Co. D 59th Ind. Inf. (Letter from Albert SHAW, Caretaker, Galesburg Cemetery, Box 134, Galesburg, KS 66740 - dated about July 1990). On Catherine's tombstone is - Catherine Bernard DILDINE - Dec. 30, 1829 - Sep 19, 1902.

Enlist Date 30 November 1864 Enlist Rank Priv Served Indiana  Drafted D Co. 59th Inf Reg. IN Mustered Out at Louisville, KY on 17 July 1865 Battle on 03 March 1865 Battle at Darlington, South Carolina on 03 March 1865 Source: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
Abbreviation: INRoster
Published by Holloway on 1865-66

153 153 Dildine, Ralph 31 M W Farmer 2000 1100 Ohio
Dildine, Catherine B. 39 F W Keeping house Virginia
Dildine, Lycurgus 17 M W At home Indiana
Dildine, William B. 16 M W At home Indiana
Dildine, Margaret J. 13 F W Indiana
Dildine, Emory J. 11 M W Indiana
Dildine, Florence 9 F W Indiana
Dildine, Aaron 7 M W Indiana
Dildine, Edgar 5 M W Indiana
Dildine, Ira 3 M W Indiana
Dildine, Nathan W. 5/12 M W Kansas born Dec.
1870 Census for Centerville Township, Neosho County, Kansas

The following is the obit for Ralph Dildine which is from a book compiled and published by george paine concerning Hope cemetery Records. This is the only Dildine obit although there are several Dildine's in this cemetery.

Wednesday, January 12, 1881
Obituary
Died--December 30, 1880, at his home in Centerville township, Meosho county, of rheumatism of the heart, Ralph Dildine, in the 53rd year of his age.
The deceased was a native of Ohio, and with his father removed to Blackford county, Ind., which was then almost an unbroken wilderness; was married in 1850 to Catherine B. Rose, who with ten children remains to mourn his loss. He was a soldier in the war of the rebellion and followed Sherman in his march from Atlanta to the sea coast. He removed to Kansas in September, 1868 and settled on the farm where he died. His last illness was short but his sufferings were great. As a man he was industrious, self-reliant, kind hearted and generous, upright in his life, and in his last sickness expressed a willingness to die, saying it was all right with him and that he only regretted to leave his dear family. H. C. P.