Thomas Sharp Neal and Nancy Ann(a) Oberlin

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Husband Thomas Sharp Neal ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Thomas Sharp Niel 3
           Born: 2 Sep 1841 - North Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 1921 2
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         Father: John Neal (1816-1903) 5
         Mother: Rachel Maria Blose (      -1906) 6 7 8 9

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Nancy Ann(a) Oberlin ^{2 10 11}

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            AKA: Annie Oberlin 12
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           Died: 1921 2
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         Father: Christopher Oberlin (Abt 1791-1859) 10
         Mother: Catharine Kubach (Abt 1802-1840) 10

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Children

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1 M Preston Neal ¹³

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            AKA: Preston Niel 6
           Born: 
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           Died: when nine years old
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Naoma Neal ¹²

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            AKA: Nioma Neal,11 Naomi Niel 6
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         Spouse: Dr. George E. Simpson (      -      ) 13

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3 M Lawrence Neal ¹³

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            AKA: Albert Lawrence Niel 6
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4 F Selina Neal ^{12 14}

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            AKA: Salina Neal,11 Emma S. Niel 6
           Born:  - West Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA
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         Spouse: Ezekiel Ambrose Barbor (      -1927) 11 14

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5 F Irene Neal ¹³

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            AKA: Irene L. Niel 6
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         Spouse: Joseph C. Buchanan (      -      ) 13

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6 F Grace Neal ¹¹

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            AKA: Grace C. Niel 6
           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1913
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7 M Dr. Harry Beecher Neal, M.D. ^{13 15}

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           Born: 17 May 1882 - Northport, Indiana Co, PA 2 11
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Roxie L. Widdowson (1888-      ) 11 16
           Marr: 20 Jun 1911 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 2 11

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8 M Walter Neal ¹³

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         Spouse: Emma Smith (      -      ) 12

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Sharp Neal

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Trade City, PA

Civil War: he served as second sergeant of company C, second battalion, six months volunteers.

He lived at home until twenty-six years old and was reared to farming on his father's place in North Mahoning township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where he lived for eighteen years. He obtained a common school education. Settling at Trade City, he engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed for eighteen years and also acted as postmaster. He was always a prominent figure in official circles, held numerous local offices, and in 1897 became sheriff of Indiana County, serving one term of three years, until 1900. He was later supervisor of North Mahoning township. He owned several farms, and residence property in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. He had a fine peach orchard, eight hundred trees, located west of Trade City. His home in that town was built in 1912. Mr. Neal bought and sold considerable timber in his day; one fall he sold 140,000 cubic feet. He became a pilot on the Big Mahoning when fifteen years old, and was familiar with lumbering operations in their various branches, becoming very well acquainted all over the county in this connection and in following his other industrial interests.
He and his wife were active members of the Lutheran Church at Trade City, and politically he was a stanch member of the Republican party.

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 771, 849, 1521.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 351.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 457, 484.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 849.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 771, 849, 1521, 1546.

6 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 457.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 849, 1546.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1122.

9 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 178.

10 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 484.

11 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 771.

12 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 851.

13 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 771, 851.

14 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 223.

15 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 350.

16 M. T. Steele & Edith Work, The Work Family (Marion Center, PA: Privately published, 1894), Pg 44.