The David Hilton family near Weissert, Custer County, Nebraska.

summary: Note: Photographer's annotation: "We did not want to show the old sod house to friends back east, but the young lady and mother wanted to prove they owned an organ." See NEBRASKA HISTORY. magazine. Vol. X No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 1927, Pg. 323.<p>In 1975, Phillip Gardner of the Custer County Historical Society identified the Hiltons as living one and one-half miles south of Weissert, and being one of the oldest families in that area.<p>Mrs. F. E. Howland identified those pictured as, from left to right: George Leonard Hilston, the eldest son of David. Born 17 March 1881 at Weissert, Nebraska; David Hilton, born 26 September 1846 at Manchester England; Emma Rhoda Hilton Campbell (daughter of David), born 13 March 1876 in Seneca, Wisconsin; Lydia Hilton Pickett, born 7 June 1879 at York, Nebraska; Leonard George Hilton, born 16 July 1883 at Weissert, Nebraska; Isabell (Chapman Hilton, born 1 December 1853 at Steubenville, Ohio. Another daughter, Frances Hilton Pennington, was born in 1889, after this picture was taken. David Hilton was the youngest of four boys, and the only one of his family to come to America. En route to Nebraska, he visited his uncle at Seneca, Wisconsin, and never returned to England. He was about 25 years onld when he came to American in 1871.
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