Date:  ca. 1905

Image Number:  B114cdB17

Comments:  Benjamin Lewis Dillard was born September 4, 1852, and was the son of George Walden Dillard, who lived at Mill House on Glendower and at Chester in Scottsville.   G.W. Dillard owned various properties in Scottsville, including the old Eagle Hotel (later known as the Carleton House) on Valley Street from 1872-1880.  Other children of G.W. Dillard included Alice E., Mary E., George Mason, William Barclay, and Nora Dillard of Scottsville.  

Benjamin Dillard received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and returned to Scottsville to marry first, Maude Baptist (b. Nov. 25, 1870; d. Oct. 1905) of South Garden.   After his wife died in 1905, Dr. Dillard moved his young family into the Barclay House on Main Street.  His medical offices were located on the second floor of the Fidelity National Bank on Valley Street. Dr. Dillard was deemed an excellent doctor by Mayor Raymon Thacker, a former patient.

Dr. Dillard later married Mildred Scoville Horsley, who ran the Travelers' Rest Hotel just up Main Street from the Barclay House.  Mildred was a descendant of Merriwether Lewis and the sister of Fannie Horsley, who married Reeves Nicholas of Scottsville.  Dr. Dillard's children were Benjamin, McGruder, Edward, Maude, Sarah (married Richard Haines); and Martha (married Lindsay Pitts). Many of his children graduated from Scottsville High School.

Dr. Benjamin Lewis Dillard died on April 12, 1929, and is buried at Scottsville Cemetery.