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Pleasant Grove Cemetery ~ Hugh McNeill ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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McNeill, Hugh
LAST: McNeill FIRST: Hugh MID: 
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 2 Jul 1815 DIED: 4 May 1906 BURIED: 
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Prescott , Ontario, Canada
DEATH PLACE: Stayton, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
1850 KS TERRITORY CENSUS - Hugh McNiel [sic], age 45, occupation laborer, b. Canada, is enumerated with Sarah, age 43, b. Canada, along with George, age 21, b. Canada, John, age 18, b. Canada, Elizabeth, age 16, b. Canada, Sarah Jane, age 13, b. Illinois, Drussilla, age 11, b. Illinois, and Mathew, age 7, b. Illinois.
1870 OR CENSUS - Hugh McNeal, age 55, occupation farmer, b. Canada, is enumerated with Sarah, age 53, b. Canada, along with George, age 30, laborer, b. Canada, Rosilla [Druscilla], age 21, b. Illinois, Nathan, age 17, b. Illinois, and James, age 12, b. Colorado.
1880 OR CENSUS - Hugh McNeal, age 65, occupation – runs lumber mill, b. Canada, is enumerated with Sarah, age 62, b. Canada, along with George, age 40, works in saw mill, b. Canada, Nathan, age 26, b. Illinois, and James, age 19, b. Colorado.
DISCREPANCY - name spelled variously as McNeill, McNeill & McNeal.
OBITUARY: 
Mr. Hugh McNeil was born at Prescott, Canada, July 2, 1815. He died at Stayton, Ore., May 4, 1906, aged 91. He married Miss Sarah Tompkins of Chatham, Can. in 1817 [sic], who died 13 years ago. To them was [sic] born nine children of whom five survive. He came to Pike's Peak in 1859 and thence to Oregon in 1862, where he has resided until his death.
The funeral services were conducted by Re. Clark in the Pleasant Grove church with interment in cemetery nearby. A large number attended to pay their last respects to an old and honored neighbor.
He was a brother to Mr. Archie McNeil the well known resident of Gervais.
Gervais Weekly Star 18 May 1906 pg 3
INSCRIPTION: 
Hugh
McNeill
Died
May 4, 1906
Aged
80 Yrs 10 M’s
2 D’s
[W. face of monument shared with Sarah]

Resting ‘till the resurrection morn
[N. face of McNeill monument]
SOURCES: 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
ODI
1850 KS CENSUS (Arapahoe Co., California Gulch, FA #3342)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Lincoln, FA #1671)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Stayton, ED 88, pg 166A)
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