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George and daughter Elizabeth (Neal) Post

, Laird
1860 Bethany, Harrison, Missouri, Samuel F Neal, 34, VA, Elisabeth Neal, 22, IND, James Neal, 9, MO, William Neal, 8, MO, George Neal, 6, Franklin Neal, 3, MO, and Yilley Neal, 1, MO.

In 1880 Harrison County, Missouri, S. F. Neal is 45, Elizabeth 40, George W. 26, Samuel 20, Walter 12, Henry 10, and Martha 8.
(Martha married Edward G. Sprigg and moved to Laird, too.)

Samuel Fulton Neal 1823-1887 is buried in Bethany, Missouri # 14467068. So is Zillah 1830-1855 # 14467072. Nancy Elizabeth Neal 1838-1906 is also buried there # 14467057.

In 1870 Washington County, Indiana, David Wyman is 39, Hannah 35, Oliver L. 11, and Anna F. 10.

In 1880 Atchison County, Missouri, David is 50, Hannah 49, Oliver 21, Anna 18, and F. B. Y., 8.
Annie Neal, dying July 8, 1897, is buried in Nodaway County # 21229608.
"36 years, 8 months, 15 days
Wife of G. or C. W. Neal."

In 1900 Harper County, Kansas, George Neal is farming, born Jan 1854 in Missouri, with daughter Bessie Oct 1887 Kansas.

In 1910 Yuma County, George W. is 56, widowed, farming, born in Missouri, with daughter Bessie 22 born in Kansas.

George proved up a quarter in 34, 3N 43W in 1911, and another 160 acres in sections 33 and 34 in 1916.


August 29, 1912 "Mr. George Neal and Alva Wilkins are very busy putting up hay. These gentlemen believe in their cattle having plenty to eat during the winter."
George filed notice in July 1913 for land in 33 adn 34, 3N 43W, witnesses Daniel McCauley, Ora Redding, Baker Post and Willis Post.

March 6, 1913 "Willis Post of Yuma and Miss Bessie Neal of Laird were united in marriage by Judge T. C. Jennings at the court house on the twenty sixth of last month."

November 1913 "George Neal spent the week end at his daughter's, Mrs. Bessie Post."

March 1917 "G. W. Neal, north of town, was a business visitor to Wray the first of the week and called to order the Rattler sent to his address."

September 1917 "Walter Neal, a brother, and Guy Neal, a nephew of G. W. Neal of northwest of Wray, who have been visiting in the Neal home here for some time, left last Friday for Denver and other western points. These gentlemen live in Winfield and Anthony, Kansas."

"Heirs of Elizabeth Neal" proved up a quarter in 8, 2N 42W in 1915. This possibly is George's step-mother Nancy Elizabeth Neal....


In October 1918 M.M. Bulkeley was the administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Neal, deceased.

George Washington Neal 1854-1940 is buried in Wray # 68935640.

Son of Samuel Fulton Neal and first wife Zillah [Zellah] Ann (Covington) Neal. Family Bible records spell her name Zillah Ann Neel, stating she died June 28, 1855, aged 25 years, 4 months and 8 days.

George married Frances E. Wyman, born about 1872. (In 1872 Atchison County, Missouri, David Wyman is 50, Hannah 45, Oliver L. 21, Anna F. 18, and daughter F. B. T. Wyman 8, all born in Indiana.
In 1900 Reno County, Kansas, David Wyman is 70, with Hannah 69, and Frances E. March 1872 born in Indiana. David's granddaughter Verna F. Neal March 1891 in Missouri, is with them.)

David married Hannah Fontaine on March 8, 1855 in Washington County, Indiana, and had Oliver 1859-1904, Ann 1860-1897.
In 1905 Sumner County, Kansas, G.W. Neal is 50, with Bessy 17 and Verna 14.
Daughter Bessie Haviland Neal was born October 23, 1887 in Kansas.

Daughter Verna Frances Neal was born March 13, 1891 in Kansas, died December 21, 1975, and is buried in Fairlawn Burial Park, Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas.

She was in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1925, 32, with cousin John M. Wyman 60 and Elizabeth 53.
She's with them in 1930, too, a telephone operator.

"Mrs. Frances E. Wyman" is at 2128 Van Ness in San Francisco in 1930, with Homer D. at the same address, both hair-dressers.

1915 Hutchinson "Si Wyman was the uncle of John Wyman of Hutchinson. He has two nephews, W. C. and Dawson, brothers of John, who live near Peualosa. Mrs. Hannah Wyman, of this city is the widow of his half brother, David Wyman. ate also has two sisters living In Indiana, and two nephews, Schuyler and Homer Marshall, living in Sumner county.
In 1915 Hutchinson "Sixteen Relatives File Suit yo Break "Uncle Si" Wyman's Will AS SECRETARY OF STATE, LANSING PLEASES WILSON; MAY BE RETAINED "PHILANTHROPY" A PLOT Allege Their Rich Relative Was Drunk— Claim Influence Was Used.
Relatives of the late Silas D. Wyman, who died at his bachelor home on his farm near Langdon, March 13, filed suit in the Reno county district court this afternoon to break the Will which gave the bulk of a $200,000 fortune to charitable and educational purposes.
Say He Was Drunk.
That he was drunk and under the influence of intoxicating liquors and drugs when he made such a will, and was at the time very weak and prostrated and was undergoing treatment for narcotic drug habit at a local hospital in the attempt to allay the evil effects of an extended spree of Intoxication, which had put him there, is alleged by the Wyman relatives trying to break the will.
Allege He Was Drunkard.
Charging that "Uncle Si" Wyman had been a confirmed and habitual drunkard for 15 or 20 years before his death at the age of eighty, and that he had been a user of narcotic drugs for three or four years before his last will was made January 28, 1914, the relatives hope to show that he was not capable of properly executing a will and codicil on the date upon which his will was made. In their petition the relatives state the Reno county pioneer had used intoxicating liquors and drugs so excessively that he was broken in health physically and mentally deranged and incapable of making a testamentory disposition of his property able and subject to violent fits of spleen and prejudice which might last only for a few minutes and take a reverse turn, and that he was Incapable at the time of attempting to mako his lost will and codicil, and for a long time prior thereto, to comprehend the meaning of family ties and consanguinity and the claims of relatives upon his bounty. In addition to his deranged mentality on account of excesses, It Is alleged that he was suffering from senile dementia at the time he made his will.
Charge They Used Influence.
The relatives state that "Uncle St" was unable to recognize some of his own relatives about the time the will was made, and that he was unable to remember whether they were living or dead, and that he was absolutely unable to comprehend the terms of the will which he signed. Thoy also charge Homer and Ralpoj Truitt, who lived near the old man's home with using undue influence upon him, in order to set a bequest at his death. They charge the Truitts, father and son, to having managed all of the affaire of Silas D. Wyman for several years prior to his death and that they had practical control of all his business affairs and that they procured such an Influence over him that they substituted their own will and purposes for his, and in, that reason obtained their bequest of land and property.
Claim Philanthropy Part of Plot
Eugene and Joseph Catte, who lived near the home of the aged bachelor, are also charged with having conspired together and used their influence on the old man to get a substantial remembrance in his will. And Mrs. Vtanle Skinner, at Hutchinson, is named along with them. The relatives also allege that the Truttts, father and son, the Catte brothers and Mrs. Skinner in order to mako the will seem more plausible, influenced "Uncle Hi" to leave a big share of bis property to the Catholic church, the Salvation Army, the city of Hutchinson for the purpose of establishing a maternity ward for unfortunate mothers, to the trustees for endowing an old Jhullo*' home, and to the trustees of the Reno county high school for the manual training and domestic science departments. They claim that the wealthy pioneer knew nothing of the Institutions to which he left his money, that they were suggested to him by his friends in order to marshal an army of defenders for the will.
Only Two are Kansans
Only one of the sixteen relatives who are bringing the suit lives in Reno county, and but two are Kansans, Fourteen live outside the state. The plaintiffs are Marjory M. Snodgrass, Mary B. Royce and Charles P. Bush, of Fredericksburg, Md. (or Ind); Margaret Kills, of Bloomington, Ind. Byron C. Bush, of BsJom, i»d.; John Wyman, of Hutchinson Charles E. Davis, of East St. Louis, Illinois; Alouno Davis, of Hanson, Mp,; Alva Davis, Robert Davis, and Daisy Davis, of Albany, Ind.; Schuyler Marshall, of Wray, Colo.; Homer Marshall, of Milan, John watts of Pekin, Indiana; and Florence M. Burton and 'Jantaa h. Mather, of Orleans, Orange county, Ind. Their case will be conducted by II,, Williams amd A, O, Majloy.
How They Want to split.
The contesting relatives want the property divided as follows: Marjory M. Snodgrass and Mary 0. Royce, two> MMoauUia; Charles P. Bush and Wyrou 0, UusUi one fifteenth each; Margaret, |9IU« and-John Watts, one twentieth, each; Paulina Wyman, Florence M. Burtoti, and Jaraoa Davis, Lonza G. Davis, Alva Davis, Robert Davis, Mrs. K. S. Marshall and Daisy Davis, one forty-fifth,; each; John Wyman, Dawson Wymam, William Wyman, Mabel Weathers, and Uattle Moore,; two seventy-fifths, each; Schuyler Marshall and Homer Marshall, two forty-fifths, each; Hush Armstrong, Russell Armstrong, Viola Armstrong, Cecil Armstrong, and Ethel Armstrong, one two-hundred- twenty-fifth, each; Vivian B. Marshall, Virgil Marshall, Valena Marshall, Vel- mn I. Marshall, V. O. Marshall, and Caryl Marshall, one two-hundred-, seventieth; Bertie Shinnabarger, one eightieth; Bessie Post and Verna Neal, one one-hundred-eightieth. The relatives state that Silas Wyman in naming a list of relatives some time before he made his will, referred to Marjory M. Snodgrass, Paulina Davis and Margaret, Ellis as dead. The relatives want the will to be declared null and void and the estate of the late Silas D. Wyman adminitered according to the laws of descent and distribution of the state of Kansas."


September 8, 1915 Salem, Indiana.
Mrs. Hannah Wyman, of Hutchinson, Kansas, favored the Democrat a few weeks ago with a letter, giving an interesting account of her life. The picture portrays Mrs. Wyman as she is to day. It is remarkably youthful looking for a woman who has passed her 81st birthday. Mrs. Wyman was a resident of Washington county for 22 years and has many friends in the vicinity of her old home, south of Salem, who will appreciate her contribution. Each year«ahe promptly renews subscription paying in advance for the Democrat. She does her own writing in a neat, legible hand, with a style common to all writers who received instruction in a system used 75 and 80 years ago. In closing her letter she remarked that her hand was shaking and the writing difficult. She wished to be remembered to all her old friends.
Mrs. Wyman is a sister-in-law of Henry C. Ellis of Salem. 'This photo of myself was taken the 21st day of July, the day after my 81st birthday. I was born in Harrison county, Indiana. July 20, 1834. I was married to David Wyman, March 8, 1855, by J. L. Martin at Martinsburg, Ind. We lived in Howard township until 1877 when we moved West We came to Kansas - did not unload the big wagon but moved on to northwest Missouri. We stayed there for seven years when we came back to Kansas. After a residence of 18 years, we again moved back to Missouri. We were living there when my husband, David Wyman, died, February 8, 1903. My son, Oliver L. Wyman, also died at the same place, Arkoe, Missouri. His death occurred a little over a year after the death of his father. He died June 24, 1904, aged 45 years, 1 month and 11 days. He was never married. (This is Oliver Wyman buried in Salem Cemetery, Nodaway County # 74868391.)

Six children wore born to us three died in early childhood. One daughter, Anna Neal, died in her 37th year near Maryville, Mo., leaving two daughters. One of these is married and lives in Colorado; the younger one, Verna Neal, is living with me. My youngest daughter, Bertie Shinabarger, is married and lives in Northwest Missouri. She is all I have left of my six children. I am from old Revolutionary stock. My great grandfather came with the Mayflower or the crew that came next from England. His name was John Baptist Chesshire. He was from Chesshire parish, or Chesshire county, we would call it here. My father's father, Edma Henry Fountaine, came to this country with Lafayette, when he was 18 years old. He stayed with Lafayette during the period he served America first as patriot and friend. After this, he went back to Paris for a time. He returned to America again and fought through the war of 1812. He was in the battle of New Orleans, La. My grandfather Fountaine had the first house ever built in Louisville, Ky. The men built a log house to live in while they made a brick kiln and burnt the brick to make the house for himself and family. They also kept a hotel. It was in this house in Louisville, my father, Tulius W. Fountaine. was born. The Fountaine family later moved across the Ohio river into Indiana. The older members of the family resided in Harrison county, my native home, and later lived in Martinsburg and vicinity.

Hanna A. Wyman dying May 1927 is buried in Hutchinson, Section 1, Lot 13, Space 3, # 1361411167.
Frances Wyman Shinabarger 1872-1921 is buried in Maryville Missouri # 168656767.

Vivian Marshall was the daughter of Emmet S. and Lillie (Wyman) Marshall, in Sumner County Kansas in 1900. Emmet is 26, Lillie 22, Vivian 1, and a four-month-old son (Virgil E. Marshall 1900-1995).

In 1880 Sullivan County, Missouri, Shaylter Marshall is 10, with Cyrus Marshall 38 and Maria 33. Homer is 8, and Emmet is 6.
They're in Sumner County, Kansas, in 1900, Cyrus 56, Schuyler C. 30, and Homer V. 28. Schuyler moved to Garfield County, Oklahoma, so he wsn't in Wrya long.

ELIZABETH


Bessie Post is buried in Wray # 57517606
February 23, 1922

So is Willis Post 1875-1927 # 57517606.

In 1930 Laird precinct, George is living alone - the household preceding is Joseph Post 48 and his father Baker Post 85, born in Ohio, widowed. Bessie's kids Lily M. Post 16, George 13, and Agnes 10 are with them.

Georgie B. Post 1916-1956 is buried in Wray # 57518067 .

Agnes Ethel Post married Otto G. Sampson on September 29, 1937 in Yuma County.
In 1940 Wray, on Grant Street, George Neal is 86, widowed, with granddaughter Agnes O. Sampson 20, Ottos G. 29 born in Iowa, and their son Gerald D. 1.

Agnes 1919-1990 is buried in Colorado Springs # 21910458, with Otto G. Sampson 1910-1995 # 21910440.

In 1940 Washington County, Colorado, Lillie Post is 26, no occupation, living with her uncle Joe Post 67 born in Nebraska, farming. They were in Yuma County in 1935.
She might be the Lillie M. (Post) Hill 1913-1996 buried in Greeley # 170271289, with Robert Ernest Hill 1915-1987.

VERNA

1913 Hutchinson "Mr. and Mrs. John Wyman will have a family reunion and dinner party tomorrow at one o'clock. Their guests will be Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Battey and family of Nickerson, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Barnes of Las Vegas, New Mexico, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. It. H. Barnes and son, Wymnn, Mrs. Hannah Wyman, Miss Verna Neal, Mr. W. A. Marnes, Jr., and sons Harlow and Alilo of Fargo, North Dakota, Mr. Alax Wyman and Mr. Erskla Wyman."
1938 Hutchinson "Mrs. J. M. Wyman and Miss Verna Neal, 711 North Poplar, and Miss Elaine Wyman, 1917 North Main, returned today from a vacation in Yellowstone park and Salt Lake City."

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