John Dils, Jr.

Birth Date

1818-09-15

Death Date

1895-08-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Pike County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Ann Rattiff Dils in Pike County, Kentucky, on November 6, 1842. Father of Georgia Ann Dils, Mary E. Dils, Augusta Dils, L. C. Dils, and John R. A. Dils. Merchant in Pike County in 1850. Merchant in Pike County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Pike County in 1860. Arrested by Confederate forces and held prisoner at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, in 1861. Served in the 39th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from January 21, 1863, to December 10, 1863. Dishonorably discharged on December 10, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pike County, p. 458A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pike County, District 1, p. 975.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pike County, District 1, p. 193B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pike County, Pikeville, p. 23B.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0423.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pike County Marriages, Film 000839494.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 94286, State 1962.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application 716277.
William Ely, The Big Sandy Valley: A History of the People and the Country from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, reprint ed., (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969), pp. 45-55.
"COL John Dils Jr. (1818-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 5134800, accessed December 8, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5134800.

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