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WASTELLA KANSAS NEELY February 21,1891 “Wasness” or “Cee Cee” July 29, 1983 92 years old By Doris Cornett (Bill’s wife) In collaboration with Bob Comett and from tapes made by Bill Cornett about 1990. Wastella Kansas Neely was born in Blount County, Alabama, on February 21, 1891. In later years she said she was one day older than George Washington. The bible entry of Kansas Wastella is app...
Neely Family - 1590 to 1728 == From Scotland to Ulster == (and their decision to come to America) =(Much of the information for this project was researched and prepared by James R. "Jim" Neely and by John Neilly, who lives in northern Ireland, for the Neely Clan 2000 Reunion at Steel Creek, North Carolina, in June of 2000. There are some discrepancies in the timelines for some of profiles, date...
This project provides a place to connect projects related to the Neely families.= Project Organization =* The Neelys from Scotland and Ireland from 1590 through to the emmigration of a number of the Neelys to North America in the late 1600's.** Six generations of Neelys in the United States , starting with Thomas Neely, I (1695-1756), with primary focus through to Theophilus Monroe Neely (1849-...
ERASTUS NEELY July 4, 1887 March 13, 1972; 84 years old By Virginia Fay Neely Daker Erastus , the oldest of fifteen children, was born in Alabama July 4, 1887. He and Lutie Dovie Tilley were married in Moody, Texas on December 24, 1908. They had three children: Steven , who lived twelve days (was so small he was buried in a shoe box), Gladys Coise , and Virginia Fay . Between the births of Glad...
STEPHEN FARRIS NEELY ’S.F.’ October 8, 1869 - November 23, 1940; 71 years old By Robert Ernest 'Bob' Neely, Houston, Texas; January 7, 2002 I am Robert Ernest Neely, son of Claude Ernest Neely and the second grandson of Stephen Farris Neely . Roy (Buddy) Neely Jr called me from Midland, Texas in early December, 2001, introduced himself, and told me of his part in writing a history of the Neely ...
OTTO BRYAN NEELY August 21, 1900 - January 1, 1987; 86 years old By Roy "Buddy" Neely Jr. Otto was born while the family of his father Will Henry lived on and worked a rented farm in Ellis County, Texas near the small town of Maypearl. It was late summer and the cotton bolls were starting to appear. Soon the foliage would begin to turn, the bolls would open, and Otto's older brothers would be i...
LEOTA ULAHLA (ILTIGIRT*) NEELY ‘Otie’ August 24, 1908 - February 18, 1997; 88 years old* Otie disliked this name and consistently denied even having a second middle name. Trying to discover it became a game for her children. 'This is a compilation of three essays written by Otie's two daughters, Muriel Knox Fry, and Barbara Ruth Knox Butcher, and by her son and daughter-in-law, Norman and Barba...
ROY GRIFFITH NEELY September 15, 1898 - February 1, 1980; 81 years old By Roy “Buddy” Neely Jr. In the summer of 1898, our grandfather, W.H. “Will” Neely , was a tenant farmer having difficulty providing for his family of six children. Grandmother Ulah was pregnant and due in early fall. R.W. Griffith, an early settler on Boggy Branch in the region and a landholder for whom Will farmed “on the ...
STEPHEN THEOPHILUS 'S.T.' NEELY November 21,1896 - November 4, 1957; almost 61 years old By Aleene Neely Gibson Bonnie Evans Neely and S.T. Neely were married and lived in Barstow, Texas. At first they hauled their water - every bit that they used. Mother said that the wind blew all of the time and so did the dust.When Mother went to teach her first year after obtaining her lifetime certificate...
JOHN THEOPHILUS NEELY John or John T. August 28, 1875 - December 9, 1918 43 years old By Roy 'Buddy' Neely, Jr. John T. was born and nurtured, in his early years at least, in a log cabin with a dirt floor in Blount County, Alabama, as were his three older brothers, Will , T.H. , Stephen Farris , a younger sister, Madora , and a younger brother, Ernest . Their father, Theophilus Monroe Neely , w...
GROVER TATE NEELY born November 1, 1893; died October 21, 1976; 82 years old By Rosemary Neely Marmon Childhood: Very poor. Some of the little ones were malnourished (Grover?) because when they first lived in Texas about all they had that first year was an abundance of turnips. On asking Grover how his mom managed to feed them all he said, “A little bit of meat and a lot of gravy.” Many people ...
ALLGOOD ELLIS NEELY ‘Bud’ or ‘Ellis’ September 1, 1904 - May 24, 1982; 77 years old By Robert Ellis "Bob" Neely and William Gene "Bill" Neely * The major part of this text was written by Bob in the first person. Supplementary comments by Bill appear in italics. Although endowing his mother with almost saint-like qualities, Dad did not speak much about his family for some never mentioned reason....
From Ulster to Texas: Six generations of Neelys in the United States === (by way of Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Tennesse, and Alabama) == (Initiallly prepared by William W. "Bill" Neely, Jr., June 2002, who again cautions that source material covering the Neelys' progress on the early American frontier and during the Civil War continues to be fragmentary and often requires interpretation.) Tho...
MARCELLOUS NEELY born November 21, 1891 or November 24, 1892; died June 11, 1893; 6 or 19 months old. By Roy “Buddy” Neely Jr. Marcellous was bom in Blount County, Alabama, before the Will Neely family moved to Texas by train, which likely took place in December, 1892. The children in addition to Marcellous accompanying their parents were Erastus 4, Clyde 3, and Wastella about 1 year plus 10 mo...
UNICE ROSCOE NEELY 'U. R.' or 'Unice' November 15, 1902 - November 20, 1995; 93 years old Compiled by Kate Neely Hillhouse * from audio tapes made by Wanda Neely Sherman, recording memories about the lives of Unice Roscoe Neely and Reedye Irene Lambert Neely. That has been supplemented from conversations with U.R. and Otto B. For purposes of this narrative, the father will be referred to consis...
SARAH DIXIE ALABAMA NEELY 'Dixie' March 9, 1911 – January 1, 1990; 78 years old===By Dixie Lou Montgomery=== Mother talked so much about her big family. She was so proud of them. She enjoyed telling about practical jokes. One that comes to mind – she and Gladys (niece) were going to pull the hairs out of each other's big toes. First Mom put Sloans Linament on hers — and felt no pain. Gladys (wh...
WILLIAM HENRY 'Will' NEELY ; April 2, 1866 to November 7, 1949; 83 years old By Roy ”Buddy” Neely, Jr. Introduction This is the story of the William Henry Neely family as a whole during the entire period of his life, from 1866 until 1949. There are many sources for events related here from cousins as handed down to them from their fathers and mothers, Will and Ulah ’s children; they are far too...
FAIRYE MADORA NEELY January 30, 1895 - June 20, 1934; 39 years old By Roy “Buddy” Neely Jr. Fairye was the sixth child of Will and Ulah Neely , the second born in Texas after the family had moved to Ellis County from Blount County, Alabama in late 1892. At the time of her birth, Will was a tenant farmer in the vicinity of Maypearl, a dozen or so miles west of the Ellis County seat of Waxahachie...
CLYDE NEELY October 2, 1888 August 15, 1953; 64 years old By June Neely Morrison Clyde Neely was born October 2, 1888, about 40 miles north of Birmingham, near Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama. He was the second son of William Henry and Ulah Neely. Although most of the family had at least two given names, he only had one, Clyde. He was, however, called "Jack" by the cowboys he worked with in his...
ENNIS ALLGOOD NEELY September 1, 1904 - January 26, 1905; Almost 5 months old By Roy "Buddy" Neely Jr. This boy was a twin to Allgood Ellis "Bud" Neely. He died as an infant at the age of four months and twenty-five days. There apparently remains nothing in oral history from living cousins that bears on the reason for his demise. However, it should be pointed out that our grandparents, Will and...