When Richard A Dial was born on 20 January 1856, in Jackson, Alabama, United States, his father, George Washington Dial, was 30 and his mother, Cynthia Caroline Thomas, was 28. He married Julia Hicks in 1880, in Jackson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 29 Gross Spring, Jackson, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 4 Carpenter, Jackson, Alabama, United States in 1930. He died on 11 June 1937, in Long Island, Jackson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Harris Chapel Cemetery, Bryant, Jackson, Alabama, United States.
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Scottish: variant of Dalziel , representing the usual pronunciation of this name in Scotland.
Perhaps also an altered form of Irish Dyal , itself an altered form of Doyle .
Indian: Anglicized form of Dayal . It is also found in South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
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