JOSEPH HUNTER NEELEY

 

 

     Joseph Hunter Neeley, b ca 1834 in Illinois, din Durant, Oklahoma - was a son of John H. and Lila Dorienda (Mize) Neeley, whose ancestors migrated from North Carolina to Tennessee, to Pike County, Illinois, thence to Grimes County, Texas in 1845.

     On January 1, 1852 in Grimes County, Joseph was married to Martha J. Ruble, b 1836 in The Republic of Texas, d in Durant, Oklahoma - a daughter of Fielden and Frances (Simmons) Ruble - pioneers in the Mexican Republic prior to 1830. When the Ruble family moved to Falls County in 1855, Fielden deeded 100 acres of land to each of his married daughters, and Joseph and Martha bought another 100 acres.

     Joseph Hunter and Martha J. (Ruble) Neeley reared their family in Falls County, where they were married, and when they moved to Oklahoma, only two of the seven children went with them:

     Sarah Eugenia Neeley, b 1854 in Grimes County, Texas - never married.

     John Fielden Neeley, b 1856 in a log cabin in Falls County, Texas - married Alice A. Alverson.

     Harrison Crenshaw Neeley, b 1858 in Falls County - married Henrietta (maiden name unknown).

     Catherine Neeley, b October 11, 1862 in the family's log cabin in Falls County - married Joseph Summerlin Bentley.

     Amanda Ellen Neeley, b 1866 in Falls County- married Robert Lee Crudup - a grandson of Captain Thomas H. and Elizabeth (Carnall) Barron. They had eight children.

     James Neeley, b 1868 in Falls County - died young.

     Martha M. Neeley, b 1872 in Falls County - married Lycurgus Barron - the youngest son of Captain Thomas H. Barron and his second wife, Mary Jane (Shelton) Barron, and had no children.

     Joseph Hunter Neeley was a Confederate Veteran of the Confederate States Army, in which his brother, William Neeley, was killed.

 

 


Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 324 column 1.  
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