Lillie May Neil

1896 - Abt 1994  (97 years)

• Name	Lillie May Neil  [1]
  Birth	10 Aug 1896	Farmersville, Collin County, Texas   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1994
  Notes	Lillie attended Southwestern Normal School at Weatherford to obtain a teachers certificate. Lillie taught six years, first at Independence (earning $45 a month), then at Union Hill southeast of Vinson, earning $100 a month. During her second year there, a tornado blew the school off the foundation, and the school was closed. Her final year of teaching was at Merritt, west of Elk City, where she lived with her uncle William HALL and family and earned $75 a month.
  Person ID	I19118	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)
  Marriage	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

  
  

  Family	Raymond Thomas Francis,   b. 9 Sep 1895, Sherman, Grayson County, Texas d. 30 Dec 1967 (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	20 Mar 1924  [4]
  	VINSON MEMORIES (Published by VINSON HISTORY BOOK COMMITTEE Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995) contains a biographical sketch, along with a picture, of the family of Raymond Thomas Francis and Lillie May Neil. His family moved to Oklahoma, three and one half miles from Vinson, when he was an infant. During World War I, he served in the Navy and was based in San Diego. Upon returning, he resumed farming and ranching with his father. After Lillie and Ray married, they first lived with his parents, later moving to Blair in Jackson County. Ray, along with his brothers Forrest and Henry, opened a Ford auto agency and a general store. They later moved back to Vinson, and resumed farming and ranching with Ray's father. After his father died, they bought a motel in Elk City.
  Children	1. Raymond Wayne Francis,   b. 1925   d. 1933 (Age 8 years)   2. Living   3. Living
  Family ID	F6956	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 10 Aug 1896 - Farmersville, Collin County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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). [S449] Vinson History Book Committee VINSON MEMORIES (Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995), p 190 (Reliability: 3).