The Max T. Dail Family of Illinois:Information about Robert Dail

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Robert Dail (b. January 12, 1842, d. 1927)

Robert Dail (son of Nathaniel Dail and Jane McNeil) was born January 12, 1842 in Ireland, and died 1927 in 85y, Portland Township. He married Elizabeth A. McNeill on July 04, 1867 in Whiteside County, IL³³, daughter of William McNeill and Jane A. Gillis.

More About Robert Dail:
Date born 2: June 13, 1843, at Adengosh, Monaghan County, Ireland (Emerald Isle).³⁴
Burial: Unknown, Sharon Cemetery, Spring Hill, Whiteside County, IL.
Emigration: 1850, New Orleans.
Individual Note: 1851, Lived with an uncle for four or five years after coming to US..³⁵
Military service 1: Did duty along the lines of the Memphis and Charleston Railway, guarding transportation for nearly six months after his term of enlistment expired..³⁵
Military service 2: May 08, 1864, Enlisted for one hundred days in Company B, 140th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which started from Springfield to join the Army of Tennessee in the Civil War.³⁵
Military service 3: October 19, 1864, Honorably discharged from the service in Chicago.³⁵
Occupation: 1900, Farmer.

More About Robert Dail and Elizabeth A. McNeill:
Marriage 1: July 04, 1867, Whiteside County, IL.³⁶
Marriage 2: July 04, 1866³⁷
Marriage license: #1850, Whiteside Cty, IL.³⁸

Children of Robert Dail and Elizabeth A. McNeill are:

+Florence Dail, d. date unknown.
Lillian Dail, b. Abt. 1860, IL, d. date unknown.
D. Tremayne Dail, b. 1868, d. 1933.
Bertha Dail, b. Abt. 1870, d. date unknown.
William Dail, b. June 18, 1877, Portland Township, Whiteside Cty, IL, d. May 29, 1935.
+Robert L. (Jr.) Dail, b. 1886, IL, d. 1932.