Notes
Note for: Dora Belle Dinnen, 6 JAN 1874 -
According to The Life and Family of Walter Neal, Sr. of Lawrence and
Gallia Counties, Ohio Dora married Harvey Cozad and they lived in
Barboursville, WV.
Notes
Note for: John Henry Dinnen, 5 JUN 1881 - 9 SEP 1967
John Henry Dinnen and his wife Gertrude (Carpenter) Dinnen are both
buried in Paint Twp. Cemetery in Madison Co., Ohio according to The Life
and Family of Walter Neal, Sr. of Lawrence and Gallia Counties, Ohio
written by Chester I. Miller.
Notes
Note for: Stella May Dinnen, 5 SEP 1885 -
Stella May Dinnen and her second husband, Frank Petty are both buried in
Paint Township Cemetery in Madison Co., Ohio according to the Neal book
by Chester I. Miller.
Notes
Note for: Clystie\Clysta Ann Dinnen, 19 JUN 1889 - 1934
"Clysta and her last two husbands are buried in the Paint Twp. Cem. in
Madison Co., Ohio." --from the Neal book by Chester I. Miller
Notes
Note for: George Edgar Dinnen, 31 MAR 1891 - 10 FEB 1967
Neal book by Chester I. Miller says, "(Grave stone has death date as
1968;)" Also states that both George and Dora are buried at Jamestown,
Ohio.
Notes
Note for: Azilla Wright, -
Chester I. Miller's Neal book gives Azilla's name as Arzilla.
Notes
Note for: John Neal, 7 JAN 1817 - 1869
John Neal; b) 7 Jan 1817 in N.C., (Stokes County); d) 1869; m) Lawrence
Co., Ohio 8 Sep 1840 to Dorcus Day, dau. of Robert and Mary (Davis) Day.
She was b) 1823; d) after 1870 but when I do not know. There is a John
Neal Cem. that was where he owned land, and it is believed that he is
buried there; It is on Aarons Creek in Aid Township. From Chester I
Miller's Neal book
John Neal, born 1817 in Stokes County, N.C. was the fourth child and
oldest son of Daniel and Lydia (Banks or Syer) Neal. He had six brothers
and five sisters. When young his parents moved to Monroe County, then
Virginia, where Daniel's mother, brother, and some sisters were still
living; and about 1826 we have record that he had been in Aid Township of
Lawrence County long enough to be on the Tax Roll.
In 1827 he was in Gallia County of Ohio and for five years paid chattel
taxes in that county, and by the first of the year 1832 he was back in
Lawrence Co., Ohio; purchased land on Aarons Creek and it was where he
finished out his life.
John in 1840 being some twenty-three years of age married Dorcus Day, the
daughter of Robert and (Mary) Davis Day. Her older sister Andocia Day
was already married to John's younger brother, Walter Neal, --a case of
brothers marrying sisters, daughters of a nearby neighbor.
John and Dorcus went to housekeeping in Aid Township on Aaron's Creek.
Finally he got possession of some acres of land and live on it until he
died in 1869 when about 52 years of age.
John and Dorcus lived by farming, selling of timber to a nearby furnace,
and trading. They had a total of thirteen children, five boys and eight
girls, and most of them grew up and married. When John died his youngest
child was about five years old.
There is a cemetery near the farm that John lived on, and it still
(though small and only few graves) bears his name. He has no stone, for
the family not long after his death, moved away most of them ending up in
or around Huntington, W. Va. I have not been able to find when or where
Dorcus, the widow, died. I do not have too much to report on the family,
but will give it, first a run-down on the family, then the children's
children that I have in my records.
The children will have the NEAL surname, and all of them were born in Aid
Township of Lawrence County, Ohio. Their names were: Martha Jane,
Lydia, Mary, Daniel M., Robert, Anna, Samuel Burk, John, Tabitha, Walter,
Delilah, Sarah J., and Elizabeth Neal.
The 226 acres John owned at his death was divided by "petitioning the
court" in 1877 after which time the family mostly disappeared out of Aid
township. In January of 1877 all were in Lawrence County Ohio except
Anna Dinnen who was in Missouri. All children born Law. Co. From Neals
of Bedford Co., Va. and family of Walter Neal, Sr. of Lawrence and Gallia
Counties, Ohio by Chester I. Neal.