Hubert Dilger married his wife, Elise, in Philadelphia on September 25, 1865. Dilger eventually purchased a sprawling horse farm, which he called Greenfield, in the Shenandoah Valley near Front Royal, Virginia, where he raised his family. Elise gave birth to 14 children; 12 survived to adulthood.
Elise died in 1906 while visiting her daughters in Germany. They had been married for 46 years.
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| Dilger in Old Age |
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| Dilger Grave |
After his death, a portion of his farm became a remount station for the US Army.
His son Anton Dilger waged biological warfare for Germany against a still-neutral United States in World War I, infecting horses with anthrax and glanders.
Hubert Dilger was the grandfather of General der Kavallerie Carl-Erik Koehler (1895 – 1958), Generalmajor Hubertus Lamey (1896 – 1981), both of whom served with the Wehrmacht, and Captain Carl Anton Keyser, USNR (1918 - 1995). Captain Keyser served as a Gunnery Officer and later the Executive Officer on board the USS Eberle (DD430) during WW2.
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