Elmer Hamilton Neil

1904 - 1981  (76 years)

• Name	Elmer Hamilton Neil  [1]
  Born	12 Jun 1904  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 Apr 1981  [1]
  Notes	Married 1rst Bonnie Lee Jackson, 2nd Clara Lee Coats and had one daughter, Linda Lee. (VINSON MEMORIES, p 280).
  Person ID	I19120	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Hamilton Neil,   b. 11 Dec 1866, Farmersville, Collin County, Texas ,   d. Jun 1924, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma  (Age 57 years)
  Mother	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   [2, 3]
  	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.
  Family ID	F6348	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S449] Vinson History Book Committee VINSON MEMORIES (Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995), p 280 (Reliability: 3). [S585] Darnell, Jeanne-Family Researcher (P.O. Box 38307, Dallas, TX 75238-0307). [S449] Vinson History Book Committee VINSON MEMORIES (Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995), p 279 (Reliability: 3).