The Dilworth-Riter Family
History Resource Page

Launched 30 January 2005

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Caleb Dilworth b. 24 May 1784 d. 25 Mar 1852	Eliza Wollerton b. 14 Oct 1793 d. 21 Dec 1876

This page will gather high-quality photos and histories of members of the Dilworth and Riter families for use by all family members.

We hope to find good materials on all the family of Caleb and Eliza Wollerton Dilworth (not just Rebecca), as well as all descendants of Michael and Elizabeth Niede Riter (not just Levi), through the third generation.

Photos

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Levi Evans Riter	Rebecca Wollerton Dilworth

Ann Elizabeth Riter daughter of Levi E. and Rebecca D. Riter	Ann Elizabeth Riter Young	Ann Elizabeth Riter Young

Seymour B. Young Sr. husband of Ann Elizabeth Riter	Seymour B. Young Sr.	Seymour B. Young Sr.

*Click here for additional photos and histories of Ann Elizabeth Riter and Seymour B. Young*

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Charles Alfred Harper	Lavina Wollerton Dilworth

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William Bringhurst	Ann Wollerton Dilworth

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David Brinton	Harriet Wollerton Dilworth

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Amos Herr Neff	Martha Ann Wollerton Dilworth

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George Nebeker	Elizabeth Wollerton Dilworth

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Francis Asbury Hammond	Mary Jane Wollerton Dilworth

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George Nebeker	Maria Louisa Wollerton Dilworth

Note to the Cousins: Please let us know of your photos so we can build a good collection of Dilworth and Riter photos.

Histories

Caleb Dilworth and Eliza Wollerton

• Virginia W. Bushman, Sketch of the Life of Eliza Wollerton Dilworth: A Utah Piooneer of 1847, 26 pages, with family group sheets, letters, and photos (reproduced here). Family History Library has this.
• ———, comp., Dilworth Families in America, 1970. Mostly pedigrees, but with biographies, original documents, and photos.

Levi Evans Riter and Rebecca Wollerton Dilworth

Levi and Elizabeth were pioneers of 1847. Their cabin is one of the oldest extant pioneer structures in Utah and is on display at This Is the Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City (click here for virtual tour, or try here if the other link goes dead). Levi went to San Francisco temporarily after the family came to Utah and had interesting experiences mining gold in 1849.

• Levi E. Riter, Letter, 15 Jan. 1848, Chester County Historical Society in West CHester, Pennsylvania, transcript and photostats in Bushman, Dilworth Families in America, 187–89
• Jennifer Larson Lund, "Everyman's Saint: The Lives of Levi Evans Riter and Rebecca Dilworth Riter," 1989 for Pioneer Trail State Park, 28 pages. I believe Utah State Historical Society has this. Thorough, scholarly treatment.
• "Obituary of Levi E. Riter," 2 page typescript, I have a copy.
• W. W. Riter, Letter to Susie Wells, 10 Jan. 1917, in Kate B. Carter, comp., Heart Throbs of the West, vol. 7, pp. 402–8, DUP, 1946; gives the history of Levi E. Riter
• Geo. W. Riter, Letter to Levi Edgar Young, 6 Jun. 1914, 7 page typescript, additional history of the Riters.
• J. Kenneth Davies, Mormon Gold: The Story of California's Mormon Argonauts, Salt Lake City, Olympus Publishing Company, 1984; chapter 10 (pages 145–55) tells of Levi's adventures digging gold; with footnotes.
• "Levi Evans Riter," DUP, 4 page typescript; written by Jennifer Larson Lund, 1985–89, and submitted by Marjorie Mills, 17 Jan. 1994 (perhaps this is a paraphrase of "Everyman Saint").
• Maryan Lambert Watrous, "Rebecca Dilworth Riter," DUP, 16 Oct 1978, 5-page typescript.
• Levi Edgar Young, "Elizabeth Riter's Christmas," in "Christmas Day on the Old Frontier," Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Dec. 1922, society section p. 9.
• ———, "My Mother," Improvement Era, May 1958
• ——— and others, "History of Ann Elizabeth Riter Young, Pioneer of 1847," submitted to DUP by member of LaBrea Camp.
• Seymour Bicknell Young Jr., "Ann Elizabeth Riter Young," dated 3 June 1932, with comments added by his daughter Louine Y. Cromar on 1 Feb. 1981.

Francis A. Hammond and Mary Jane Dilworth

Mary Jane started the first school in Utah in 1847. She and her husband Francis A. Hammond served a mission in 1853 in Hawaii.

• Mary Jane Dilworth Hammond, Journal, 1853–54, in BYU Special Collections (part of Francis A. Hammond collection). Partly transcribed in Oldroyd below.
• Julia Ann Oldroyd, A Mighty Woman in Zion: The Roles of Mary Jane Dilworth Hammond as an LDS Missionary Wife in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii, 1993
• Francis A. Hammond, Journals and Letters, 1851–1901; in Francis A. Hammond Collection in BYU Special Collections. Includes diaries, letters, and other items. Register online through BYU library catalog.
• ———, "The Early Days, My Introduction to Mormonism," The Juvenile Instructor 29 (1 June, 1894 to 15 August, 1894): 353–55; 364–69; 395–98; 463–64; 517–21.
• Preston Nibley, "Francis A. Hammond," Stalwarts of Mormonism (Deseret Book Co., 1954), pp. 45–52
• Andrew Jenson, comp., "Francis Asbury Hammond," LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, 4 volumes (1901), 1:351–53.
• Nathan W. Adamson Jr. Francis Asbury Hammond: Pioneer and Missionary,Salt Lake City, Utah: David H. Allred & West Hammond, 1993, 126 pages.

Other Riter and Dilworth Relatives

Please let us know what sources are available on your lines.

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