Willie Herbert and Lethie Anderson Dillehay Family 1940
Back Row: Robert Ester Kemp, Casper Petty, Doyle Dillehay, Ottis 'Bob' Dillehay, Lutrell Dillehay
Middle Row: Pearl Dillehay, Osa Dillehay Kemp w/o Ester Kemp, Mildred Dillehay Petty w/o Casper Petty,
Bottom Row: Shirley Kemp d/o Ester and Osa Dillehay Kemp, Willie Mundy Dillehay, Willie Herbert Dillehay
All eight Dillehay children were born to Willie Dillehay and his first wife Lethie Anderson. Lethie died
Willie Mundy Dillehay was Willie Herbert Dillehay's step mother. Willie's father James Harvey Dillehay
Willie Herbert Dillehay was the oldest son of James and Dossie Brooks Dillehay.
Evia Shoulders Dillehay w/o Doyle Dillehay holding their baby Troy Daniel Dillehay, Beatrice Dillehay,
Hazel Boze Dillehay w/o Lutrell Dillehay, Garvice Nixon, Helen Dillehay Nixon w/o Garvice Nixon.
and wife Lallo West Hudson Dillehay, Elnora Nesbitt Anderson, Ramona Kemp d/o Ester and Osa Dillehay Kemp
when the youngest child was 2 years old. Elnora Nesbitt Anderson is Lethie's mother and the children's
maternal grandmother. Lallo West Hudson was a widow with two adult daughters and a young son when
she and Willie Dillehay married. She was a wonderful wife and step mother to them. They had no children
together. Some years after Lallo's death Willie married Nannie Lou Blackburn.
was widowed twice, his first wife being Dossie Brooks and his second being Frances Brooks Smith.
His third marriage, later in life was to Willie Mundy.
James was the son of Dixon Alexander and Mary R. Craighead Dillehay.
Dixon was the son of Thomas R. and Nancy Goodner Dillehay
Thomas R. was the son of Edmond and Joannah Asher Dillehay, the first Dillehays in Smith County.
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This picture was taken in 1917. Willie and Lethie will have four more children.
Willie Herbert and Lethie Anderson Dillehay Family 1917
Between parents is oldest child Osa Front left: Doyle, Mildred and baby is Lutrell
Doyle Dillehay was my father in law. He died in 1997 at age 84.