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.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
