Smith Neal and Sarah Cochran

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Husband Smith Neal ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 5 Mar 1764 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 3
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           Died: 5 Aug 1863 or 1865 - Cowanshannock Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: Henry Neal (      -      ) 3
         Mother: [Unk] Smith (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Sarah Cochran ^{1 3}

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           Born: Abt 1777
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           Died: 1863 1
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Children

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1 M Robert Neal ^{1 2 4}

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           Born: 5 Jul 1798 - Butler Co, PA 3
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           Died: 24 Dec 1862 3
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         Spouse: Sarah Love (1797-1857) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - Smith Neal

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He started for the Revolutionary army with the intention to enlist, but peace was declared before he reached his destination. He served in the War of 1812. For several seasons he keel-boated on the Juniata river. He was in Pittsburgh when there were very few houses there.
He sometimes went to Pittsburgh, a distance of forty-six miles, to get a doctor. In the early days he made coffins out of the sycamore, hewing with the broad-axe, staining with red alder and cherry, and polishing with beeswax. He built a mill on the Cowanshannock in 1836.

He was born in the Cumberland valley, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. As a lad he enlisted in the colonial army and served one day in the revolutionary war. In 1796 he settled in Butler County, Pennsylvania, being one of its earliest pioneers. When the war of 1812 broke out his patriotic spirit had better opportunity to exhibit itself than during the first war with the British, and he served as a soldier for a considerable time, and afterward served as a surveyor for the government. He continued to reside in Butler County until 1833, when he removed to Armstrong County, where he purchased the farm which he cultivated until his death, when he was in the one hundredth year of his age. He was a mill-wright by trade. He was a Whig in politics and a member of the Seceder Church.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 461.

2 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 308x.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 897.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 612, 897.