Person:Gideon Neal (1)

He died on May 17, 1942 in Paris, Edgar County, Illinois. Obituary from Paris, Illinois Daily Beacon-News, Monday Evening, May 18, 1942; Page 7, Column 5: GIDEON P. NEAL Death came to Gideon P. Neal, 71, at 3:45 o'clock on Sunday afternoon at his home. The funeral will be held at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon at Ashmore, Illinois. Methodist church and burial will be in Ashmore cemetery. The body is at the Blume funeral home, Paris. Mr. Neal was born in Owen County, Indiana, on November 3, 1870, a son of James H. and Tabitha Jane Neal. The family moved to Douglas County, Illinois in 1871, settling near Hindsboro, where he grew to manhood. He was married on December 24, 1892 to Eliza Jane McCullough, and to the marriage were born twelve children, five of whom died in infancy. Oba died in 1922 and Goldia in 1928. the children surviving with the wife, are Gideon R., of Crawfordsville, Ind., Mrs. Sylvia Moore and Mrs. Ruth Stillwell of Terre Haute, Ind., Elizabeth at home, and Modesta Tolch of Decatur, Illinois. There are three brothers, John of Kansas, Ill., James of Charleston, Ill., and Earl of Tuscola, Ill., two sisters, Mrs. A.J. Daily of Charleston and Mrs. Nettie Cox of Kemp, Illinois; fifteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Mr. Neal resided in Paris for fifteen years. He was a member of Hindsboro Primitive Baptist church.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Martha McCullough Ogle.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Maryln Tetzlaff.