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FATHER (name): NEAL, Meredith H
date & place of birth: 30 Jul 1819 - Williamson, Tennessee
date & place of marriage: 07 Oct 1853 - Carroll, Tennessee
other marriages: SPENCER, Harriet - 04 Dec 1845 - Fayette, TN
military service:
date & place of death: 5 Jan 1883 - Eldad, Gibson, Tennessee
where buried: Eldad Baptist Cemetery, Eldad, Gibson, Tennessee
father's father (name & date of birth): NEAL, James -16 Jul 1784 - NC
father's mother (name & date of birth): DODSON, Sarah (Sallie) - 1785 - NC
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MOTHER (name): MOORE, Emeline
date & place of birth: 18 Aug 1823 - Orange, North Carolina
date & place of marriage: 07 Oct 1853 - Carroll, Tennessee
other marriages: STRAYHORN, Leroy - 23 Aug 1841 - Orange, NC
date & place of death: 7 Jan 1882 - White County, Arkansas
where buried: Grissard Cemetery, White County, Arkansas
mother's father (name & date of birth): MOORE, Sampson- 25 Apr 1783 - NC
mother's mother (name & date of birth): STRAYHORN, Martha - 1792 - NC
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CHILD 1. (name): NEAL, Afton H
date & place of birth: 25 Jul 1855
married (name): ANDERSON, Sallie
date & place of marriage: 20 Mar 1878
other marriages:
date & place of death: 19 Sep 1929 - White County, Arkansas
where buried: Grissard Cemetery, White County, Arkansas
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CHILD 2. (name): NEAL, Lucy F
date & place of birth: 1857 - Tennessee
married (name): DOYLE, John C
date & place of marriage: 1873
other marriages:
date & place of death:
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CHILD 3. (name): NEAL, Blan Albert
date & place of birth: 13 Feb 1858 - Tennessee
married (name): DAVIS, Mary Barbara
date & place of marriage: 12 Mar 1878 - Arkansas
other marriages: SMITH, Mattie Flora - 16 Jan 1901 - White, AR
date & place of death: 25 Mar 1925 - White County, Arkansas
where buried: Grissard Cemetery, White County, Arkansas
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CHILD 4. (name): NEAL, Anna K
date & place of birth: 1860 - Tennessee
married (name):
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other marriages:
date & place of death: 1860 - Tennessee
where buried:
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CHILD 5. (name): NEAL, Dixie A
date & place of birth: 1861 - Tennessee
married (name): BURTON, Beulah Belle
date & place of marriage: 06 Sep 1901 - White County, Arkansas
other marriages: BRANCH, Sudie - 18 Jan 1882 - Arkansas
date & place of death:
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CHILD 6. (name): NEAL, Oren B
date & place of birth: Jul 1862 - Tennessee
married (name): ?, Sallie S
date & place of marriage: 1895
other marriages:
date & place of death: 1926 - White County, Arkansas
where buried: Grissard Cemetery, White County, Arkansas
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CHILD 7. (name): NEAL, Mally P
date & place of birth: 27 Apr 1865 - Gibson, Tennessee
married (name):
date & place of marriage:
other marriages:
date & place of death: 12 Nov 1868 - Gibson, Tennessee
where buried: Eldad Baptist Cemetery, Eldad, Gibson, Tennessee
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SUBMITTED BY: Kay Goings
e-mail &/or snail mail: morgaine48@yahoo.com
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NOTES:
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1890
Meredith H Neal came to White County in 1852. He lost his first wife the same year. He was a Methodist Episcopal, South, preacher. He returned to Memphis in the fall of 1852, taking charge of South Memphis Church. in 1874, he returned to White County, AR, and in 1877 went to Tennessee, where he died in 1883.
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Goodspeed, Introduction to Gibson County Tennessee, 1887
The First Baptist Church was organized in that portion of the county which now constitutes a part of Crockett County about 1826 by Z. N. Murrell, and among its members were James Ferrill, James Fields, Solomon Shaw, Isham F. Davis and William Moore. In 1828 Eldad Church was organized, six miles east of Trenton, and in 1832 Spring Hill Church was established, one mile north of Eaton. Enan, now Bethlehem, two miles southwest of Rutherford, and Bethel, about one mile south-of Yorkville, were also organized about this time.
Among the earliest ministers of the Central Association may be mentioned David Halliburton, David Wagster, I D. Shipman, J. M. Hurt, M. Fly and M. Flowers. Others who have distinguished themselves by efficient service during the past half century are J. H. Borum, M. Hillsman, D. Haste, M. E. Senter, G. E. Thomas, S. K. Tigrett, M. H. Neal, John Selvage, D. H. Selph, W. M. Lee, William Hill, George Glover, S. E Gardner B. F. Bartles, S. P. Clark, J. W. Carter, R. A. Coleman, H. Conlee, R. Day, E. Dodson, W. E. Fawcett, W. C. Gilbert, W. W. Gardner, W. C. Grace, C. S. Gardner, C. R. Hendrickson, S. P. Jones, R. W. Norton and J. P. Weaver.
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