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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Robbert Harreld, Captain (1761-1824) – Biography
Andrew Alexander Crawford (1812-1862) – Published Biography
I was reviewing the 1850 census today, and noticed how closely Hugh Tinnin was living to his daughter Lucy Jane Tinnin Neal. I started to go through the pages of the census and noticed Andrew and Sinai Neal Buchanan nearby. The Buchanans and Neals both had a Tinnin kid staying with them, so I...
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Montgomery Name History and Family Crest
I was sent a bunch of papers by a distant Montgomery relative of mine, and in it was included a sheet which included a handwritten crest, a scripture from Ecclesiates 3:1-8 and a brief paragraph entitled “Montgomery History”. I can’t verify the source, or the author, so I pass it on to you. Montgomery...
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Thomas “Uncle Tom” Neel (1760-1843) – Family Group Record
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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James Preston Neal (1820-1896) – Published Biographies
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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