Ralls County Bio's - DILS, Albert G. Sr.
"History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri"
Published 1884
By St. Louis: National Historical Company
p. 479

Albert G. Dils
(Mail-carrier between Stoutsville and Florida)

Mr. Dils was born July 30, 1846, in Coahoma county, Miss.  
He was the fourth child in a family of ten children.  
His father, Albert G. Dils, was a Virginian, and his 
mother, Nancy Rownd, a native of Maryland.  They were 
married in Ripley county, Ind., October 15, 1833, and 
the husband giving up his position as pilot between 
Cincinnati and New Orleans, moved to Mississippi and 
became a planter.  In 1849 he returned to Indiana, and 
in 1857 moved to Ralls county, Mo., where he was a 
successful farmer and stock-raiser up to the time of 
his death, which occurred November 12, 1870.  
Mrs. Dils is still living at Stoutsville.  
Albert G. Jr., grew up and was educated in Ralls County.  
On coming of age he went to farming, but after a year, 
with unusual ambition and independence, returned to 
school and pursued his studies until he felt himself 
prepared for the conflict with the world. On the 23d of 
December, 1869, Mr. Dils married Miss Lulu Boren, a 
native of Marion county, Mo.  He then resumed his 
interrupted farming operations, also raising stock.  
In 1880 he went West with a view of making it his future 
home, but disappointed in his expectations, he returned 
to Stoutsville in December of the same year and accepted 
a position of contractor for the Hannibal Lime Company, 
shipping wood.  He was next, for awhile, connected with 
the livery stable of Dils Brothers, and in 1883 began 
carrying the mail between Stoutsville and Florida, in 
which occupation he is now engaged.  Mr. Dils is an 
active and energetic man and will always be successful 
in anything he undertakes.  He has five children: Albert 
P., Minnie V., Centennial, George H. and Darthula.  
He is a member of the Florida Union lodge, A. F. and 
A.M., No. 23.  His mother and three sisters belong to 
the Missionary Baptist Church.

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