Hamilton Neil

1866 - 1924  (57 years)

• Name	Hamilton Neil  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	11 Dec 1866	Farmersville, Collin County, Texas   [1, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Jun 1924	Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma   [1]
  Buried	Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma   [1]
  Notes	According to an article (courtesy of Jeanne Darnell) from The Farmersville Times, dated August 19, 1903, and published in the COLLIN CHRONICLES (Vol. IX, No. 1, Fall 1988): (Near the close of the Civil War) R. D. Bumpass, orderly sergeant, was drowned in Red River, May 24, 1864, while trying to cross. He was succeeded by Robert Neil, a brother of HAM NEIL, who lives near Cowskin (Creek)."
  Person ID	I16953	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Robert Henderson Neil,   b. Abt 1830, Virginia ,   d. 8 Jul 1881, Collin County, Texas  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Diannah Jane Crawford,   b. Abt 1845, Missouri ,   d. Abt 1935  (Age ~ 90 years)
  Married	15 Oct 1867	Texas   [5]
  	Robert's wife, Dinnah Neil, applied for a Confederate Pension on 16 Oct 1931 based on Robert's service. She stated they were married on 15 oct 1867 in Collin County, Texas, and that Robert Died on 8 Jul 1881.
  Family ID	F6349	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Melissa Rosetta "Zettie" Hall,   b. 4 Dec 1867, Farmersville, Collin County, Texas ,   d. 31 Dec 1955, Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma  (Age 88 years)
  Married	21 May 1893	Collin County, Texas   [1, 6]
  	VINSON MEMORIES (Published by VINSON HISTORY BOOK COMMITTEE Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995) contains a biographical sketch, along with a picture, of Hamilton Neil and his wife Rosetta (Zettie) and their four children. It notes that the Neil's, along with their four children, moved by covered wagon from Farmersville, Texas to Oklahoma around 1898. Hamilton was teaching school in Collin County, Texas, earning $30 a month, when he and Zettie married in 1893. About five years later they moved to Granite, Oklahoma where his sister, Ella, and her husband, John SHERRILL and earlier moved. Hamilton helped build the railroad at Granite working two mules and a dirt dipper. Then he moved his family north of the mountain to farm. In the 1901 lottery, he drew 160 acres near Lawton, and moved there. In January, 1907 the Neils bought a farm one and one-forth miles east of Vinson and a half mile south. At Vinson, relatives of the NEILS within visiting distances were the SHERRILLS with whom they exchanged many overnight visits and a sister of Zettie's, SARAH JONES, who lived about 10 miles west of Vinson with her family. After Hamilton died, Zettie attempted to continue farming but she had some bad luck when one of her mules ate some grasshopper poison and died, and then later the barn burned. She gave up, rented the farm, and moved into Vinson. Zettie and Ham Neil also raised her great-nephew, Jack Strong, whose mother Mary Ella Hall, died shortly when he was less than a year old.
  Children	1. Ila Jane Neil,   b. 17 Jan 1895,   d. 13 May 1896  (Age 1 years)   2. Lillie May Neil,   b. 10 Aug 1896, Farmersville, Collin County, Texas ,   d. Abt 1994  (Age 97 years)   3. Clyde Elmon Neil,   b. 1 May 1902,   d. 21 Nov 1965, Greer County, Oklahoma  (Age 63 years)   4. Elmer Hamilton Neil,   b. 12 Jun 1904,   d. 12 Apr 1981  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006
  Family ID	F6348	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 11 Dec 1866 - Farmersville, Collin County, Texas Married - 21 May 1893 - Collin County, Texas Died - Jun 1924 - Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma Buried - - Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

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