Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . lELDING M. NEAL is one of the promi-nent and successful agriculturists of the de-lightful township of Chatham, where somany talented and agreeable men have located forlife. He resides on section 4, where he owns twohundred and forty acres of fine land that is wellimproved, and upon which he has built a com-fortable residence and also good barns and out-houses. Mr. Neal is the son of Stephen B. and Julia A.(Wyckoff) Neal and was born in Chatham Town-shi[) October 29, 1832. He passed his youth onthe farm, working for his father up to
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . lELDING M. NEAL is one of the promi-nent and successful agriculturists of the de-lightful township of Chatham, where somany talented and agreeable men have located forlife. He resides on section 4, where he owns twohundred and forty acres of fine land that is wellimproved, and upon which he has built a com-fortable residence and also good barns and out-houses. Mr. Neal is the son of Stephen B. and Julia A.(Wyckoff) Neal and was born in Chatham Town-shi[) October 29, 1832. He passed his youth onthe farm, working for his father up to the timewhen he reached his twenty-first year. His edu-cation was the best afforded in those days, but -If «#*^. / ^-y ~i-t^-^s / ^>^./a^iA PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. ?24:7 was not nearly so thorough as the education givenchildren at the present date. The subject of our sketch when twenty-one yearsold purchased a small farm, and on the 25th ofJanuary in the same year was married to JlissLeah M. Greenwood, daughter of John Green-wood, one of the early settlers of Sangamon birtii occurred JLa}- 13, 1836. To this unionhave been born seven children, five of whom arenow living, viz: William Addison, who marriedMiss Rebecca Jeffries and died in Gage County,Neb., in the fall of 1888; Julia Ann, deceased;John Stephen, who married Miss Lura Hammerand resides on the farm adjoining his fathersresidence; Ruthy Jane, who married Henrj Evansand lives in Chatham Township; Henry E., whomarried Miss Leah Walker and lives in ChathamTownship; Cora L., who is at home witli her parents. Our subjects father, Stephen B. Neal, was a na-tive of Virginia, being born in that State on De-cembe
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