James Harvey Neel and Elizabeth Brierley

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Husband James Harvey Neel ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Harry Neel 3
           Born: 30 Sep 1785 - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: James Neel (      -      ) 1 4
         Mother: Rachel McClure (      -      ) 1 4

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Elizabeth Brierley ³

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            AKA: Elizabeth Brierly 1
           Born:  - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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           Died:  - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Robert Brierley (1749-      ) 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Bell (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Jane J. Neel ^{1 2}

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           Born: 23 Mar 1823 2
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         Spouse: Dr.  O'Brien (      -      ) 2

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2 M John Flavel Neel ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 May 1825 2
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           Died: 31 Aug 1914 2
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         Spouse: Susannah K. Forsythe (      -1857) 1 5
           Marr: 10 Feb 1857 5

         Spouse: Mary Ann Ramsey (1848-      ) 5
           Marr: 18 Sep 1873 5

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3 M Robert B. Neel ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Apr 1828 2
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           Died:  - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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4 M James Harvey Neel ²

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           Born: 28 Apr 1830 2
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           Died: while young
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5 M Hiram M. Neel ^{2 6}

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           Born: 21 Apr 1832 - Mifflin Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2 7
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         Spouse: Agnes West (      -1903) 7 8

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6 F Rachel Neel ²

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           Born: 21 Jun 1833 2
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - James Harvey Neel

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He was well known as a farmer, boatman, merchant and stockman. He was a stanch democrat, and was postmaster in Mifflin township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, for twenty-five years.

He grew up amid the rude surroundings of the pioneer period, helped to clear and cultivate the "Thompson's Run" farm, owned by his father, and at the latter's death inherited one-half of the estate. He was a very progressive, energetic character, and in addition to his farming and lumbering operations conducted a tannery on his farm and had an interest in a wholesale grocery business in Pittsburgh. For many years his house was the government postoffice for the neighborhood and he the regularly appointed postmaster. He prospered in all his undertakings and left behind a goodly estate and honored name. He was a devout Presbyterian, the family all being members of the Lebanon congregation.

Both he and his wife were nearly eighty years old when they died.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 387.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1108.

3 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 264.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1107.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1109.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 387, 682.

7 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 682.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 35.