Posts Tagged ‘ Harreld ’

Captain Robbert Harreld is my 5th Great Grandfather through his daughter Sinai who married William Neal, Sr. Sinai and William Neal’s son James Preston Neal had told a story of he and his brother (my 3rd Great Grandfather William Thomas Neal) as boys having had the opportunity to meet Samuel Houston and welcomed him...
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Sinai Harreld Neal Buchanan is my 4th Great Grandmother through her son William Thomas Neal, Col. (1822-1864) who died in the Civil War. She was first married to William Neal/Neel (abt 1797-1821) who was my 4th Great Grandfather. Shortly after her first husband’s death, she married Andrew “Uncle Buck” Buchanan and moved with their...
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I feel very lucky to have crossed paths online with James Preston IV who shared with me photos and family information on his namesake that I probably wouldn’t have otherwise been able to get. He granted me permission to share the items with others, and so below is the only picture he has of...
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My 5th Great-Grandfather Thomas “Uncle Tom” Neel and his wife Mary were the first of my Neal family to arrive in America. Born in Northern Ireland in 1760 and 1762, they arrived about 1780 and joined many of their relatives and neighbors who had preceded them to America and had settled in Pennsylvania, eastern...
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The following is the family group record for Col. William Thomas Neal. Shortly before he left for the Civil war, he fathered my Great-Great-Grandmother Anna Eliza Neal who married Steven Guthrie Nees. After William was killed in the Civil War, his brother James Preston Neal – who was also a widower – married is...
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Recently I got an email in response to my post on Hugh Tinnin asking about his son-in-law James Preston Neal. I was very excited to connect with someone from this line, and we’ve been sharing some information the past couple months. It made me realize that I haven’t done a blog post on this...
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