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Thomas George McNeff

Birth	:	24 Jan 1842 Indiana, USA
Death	:	24 Oct 1919 Fullerton, Nance County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Fullerton Cemetery, Fullerton, Nance County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.3510017, -97.9813995
Description	:	From the book; "Fullerton's First 100 Years: pg's 92/93 The name McNeff according to our great grandfather, Thomas George McNeff is Scotch Irish. The Scotch Irish were people of northern Ireland, who were descended from Scotch settlers. Some of them migrated to the United States, before 1841. The earliest known facts about the McNeff family came from the 1850 census of Indiana from Morgan County, which lists Thomas McNeff age 49, occupation farmer. Value of real estate $4400, born in Kentucky and his wife Mahala R., age 37, born in North Carolina. Married to Addie Foote... Read More	From the book; "Fullerton's First 100 Years: pg's 92/93 The name McNeff according to our great grandfather, Thomas George McNeff is Scotch Irish. The Scotch Irish were people of northern Ireland, who were descended from Scotch settlers. Some of them migrated to the United States, before 1841. The earliest known facts about the McNeff family came from the 1850 census of Indiana from Morgan County, which lists Thomas McNeff age 49, occupation farmer. Value of real estate $4400, born in Kentucky and his wife Mahala R., age 37, born in North Carolina. Married to Addie Foote on 12-22-1869 at Orange County, IN. (Thanks to contributor #47590485) Thomas George and his wife Mary (Foote) settled on a farm near French Lick, Indiana. Five children were born to them, Phillip, William Luther, Leon, Addie and Sadie. William Luther was born September 28, 1870. Their farm was a small one, partly wooded on which they raised mostly corn, tobacco, and a few pigs. They also had a few hounds. William said their living was mostly hand to mouth much of the time. The McNeff family moved to Nebraska in 1892 in time for the drouth year of 1894. They settled about 10 miles west of Fullerton. Thomas George went by the name of George. He always wore a moustache. He had a fine tenor voice and sang in the choir at the North Star Evangelical Church. He passed away in Fullerton in 1919. Unknown to his family he had been supporting a missionary in China and had not revealed this to his family even when they complained of being poor. After his death, the missionary society wrote asking why the support had stopped and so the family discovered. His son Phillip become a railroad station agent at Menona, Iowa. His sons William and Leon became farmers. One fall they were farming in Boone county Nebraska, and decided to burn a small area to pile their corn. They first got well prepared to put out the fire with wet sacks. When a large area had been burned William said, "That's big enough", "let's put it out". Just then a whirl wind came from no where twirled thru the fire and scattered it out across the prairie for a quarter of a mile. The resulting fire burned a lot of prairie and 40 hay stacks. It took 200 men to put it out. The owner of the hay stacks told William he would have to pay for the hay stacks. A very worried William went to see a lawyer and asked him "what'll I do, I don't have any money". The lawyer advised "Just stay away from him for a while and he'll forget it".

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Thomas George McNeff's memorial is located at: Fullerton Cemetery, Fullerton, Nance County, USA.
When did Thomas George McNeff death?
Thomas George McNeff death on 24 Oct 1919 in Fullerton, Nance County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 41.3510017
Longitude: -97.9813995

Family Members:

Spouse

Mary E. Foot McNeff

(1848 - 1924)

Children

William Luther McNeff

(1870 - 1954)

Sadie McNeff Hadfield

(1885 - 1955)

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