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Family: Hamilton Neil / Melissa Rosetta "Zettie" Hall (F6348)
m. 21 May 1893-
Male
Hamilton Neil
Birth 11 Dec 1866 Farmersville, Collin County, Texas 
Death Jun 1924 Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma Burial Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma Marriage 21 May 1893 [1, 2] Collin County, Texas [1, 2] Father Robert Henderson Neil | F6349 Group Sheet Mother Diannah Jane Crawford | F6349 Group Sheet
Female
Melissa Rosetta "Zettie" Hall
Birth 4 Dec 1867 Farmersville, Collin County, Texas Death 31 Dec 1955 Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma Burial 2 Jan 1956 Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma Father Mashack Hall | F148 Group Sheet Mother Eliza Jane Neil | F148 Group Sheet
Female
Lillie May Neil
Birth 10 Aug 1896 Farmersville, Collin County, Texas Death Abt 1994 Burial Spouse Raymond Thomas Francis | F6956 Marriage 20 Mar 1924
Male
Clyde Elmon Neil
Birth 1 May 1902 Death 21 Nov 1965 Greer County, Oklahoma Burial Spouse Corrine Connor | F6957 Marriage
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Notes Married:
- 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.
- 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.
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