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Neal, Calvin
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FIRST: Calvin
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| BORN: Abt 1824
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DIED: 1 Sep 1891
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| OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Tennessee
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| DEATH PLACE: Aumsville, Marion Co. ,Oregon
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1st MARRIAGE - Alsy Bilyeu, 1843, Taney Co., Missouri
1850 OR CENSUS - Calvin Neal, age 25, occupation farmer, b. Tennessee, is enumerated with Alcey, age 23, b. Illinois, along with Martha, age 6, b. Oregon Territory, Lucy, age 3, b. Oregon Territory, and Elisabeth, age 11 months, b. Oregon Territory.
1860 OR CENSUS - C. Neal, age 34, occupation farmer, b. Tennessee, is enumerated with A., female, age 33, b. Tennessee, M. J., female, age 15, b. Oregon, L. A., female, age 14, b. Oregon, E., female, age 10, b. Oregon, C. H., male, age 6, b. Oregon, M., male, age 4, b. Oregon, A. D., female, age 1, b. Oregon, D., age 19, b. Missouri.
2nd MARRIAGE - Sarah Jane McNeil
"Calvin Neal & Sarah J. McNeal, m 9 Jul 1865; T. H. Small, M. G. #792 pg 268"
1870 OR CENSUS Calvin Neal, age 48, farmer, b. Arkansas [sic], is enumerated with Sarah J., age 23, b. Illinois, along with Harvey, age 17, b. Oregon, Marion F., age 15, b. Oregon, Celia, age 10, b. Oregon, Sarah J., age 5, b. Oregon, Mary A., age 3, b. Oregon, and Jesse B., age 2, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Findley Sneed, age 50, occupation laborer, b. Kentucky.
3rd MARRIAGE - Anne Elizabeth (Nash) Walker
1880 OR CENSUS - Calvin Neal, age 55, occupation farmer, b. Tennessee, is enumerated with wife Elizabeth, age 25, b. Oregon, along with children F. Marion, age 24, farmer, b. Oregon, May A., age 12, b. Oregon, Jesse, age 11, b. Oregon, Maggie, age 9, b. Oregon, Asenath, age 7, b. Oregon, Alice, age 6, b. Oregon, Willie, age 4, b. Oregon, and Ernest, age 11 months, b. Oregon, also enumerated with step-children John Walker, age 7, b. Oregon, Clarence Walker, age 5, b. Oregon, and Edith Walker, age 2, b. Oregon. A nephew, James Harden, age 24, b. Oregon, is enumerated with the family.
BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - photographed copy of pages from Neal-Rossell Clan book by Sharon Neal Heater, 1970, pgs 15, 16)
Calvin Neal, Our Grandfather
Our grandfather sired nineteen children, raised the three Walker step-children of his 3rd wife, Anne Elizabeth Nash Walker, his nephew Daniel Neal, sole survivor of the family of Valentine Neal, all of whom died on the Oregon Trail of cholera, about 1850. From time to time other nephews and nieces found with him a safe and loving refuge.
Calvin Neal was twenty when his first child was born and his last child was born three years before he died, when he was sixty-four. Grandfather died at age sixty-seven, in 1891....
....Our Grandfather Calvin was a wonderful man who surmounted great handicaps, both of education and poverty, in his lifetime. But he also was fortunate enough to have been married to three lovely young women, who mothered his children be they their own or stepchildren, or niece or nephew, who might be living with them at the time. He was a good neighbor, a prosperous farmer, a good father and husband. Without a formal education himself, but believing an education was important, he gladly gave his own land for a schoolhouse, where all his children and many grandchildren received their early training. Grandfather Calvin was approached by his friends and neighbors to run for Governor, but would not accept because of his lack of education. He never went to school himself, could neither read nor write.
....In an early day newspaper found in Oregon Historical Society files, Portland, Ore. “Calvin Neal, a pioneer of ’44 died near Stayton last week, and fourteen hours after his supposed death revived and lived several hours longer and relapsed and the final dissolution of body and soul took place.” Grandfather was laid to rest in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, just across the road from his D. L. C., his home since 1845.
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OBITUARY:
At his home, two miles south of Aumsville, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1891, Calvin Neal, aged about 65 years.
Deceased was a pioneer farmer of the Aumsville country, having for thirty years or more lived on the place at which he died. Mr. Neal had not been in good health for a year, since he suffered a stroke of paralysis. He was in usual health Monday and had in contemplation as visit to Salem Tuesday, but on the morning of that day was stricken with paralysis, and died after a few minutes. Mr. Neal had already made arrangements to remove to Salem for the purpose of giving his children a higher education. He was preparing to have built for him a neat residence here, and work on its construction was to have commenced this week. He leaves a large family.
Daily Oregon Statesman 3 Sep 1891 4:3
In the last issue we noted the death of Calvin Neal, who lived in the Santiam bottom. Fourteen hours after he had been prepared for burial, Mr. Neal revived and lived about five hours. He was buried last Saturday.
Woodburn Independent 9 Sep 1891
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INSCRIPTION:
Our Father
Calvin Neal
Died
Sep. 4, 1891
About 67 Yrs
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Neal-Rossell Clan Book
1850 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., FA #211)
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Sublimity, FA #2968)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Lincoln, FA #1697)
Marion Co., Oregon Marriage Records, 1849-1871, Vol. 1, pg 49
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Lincoln, ED 86, pg 8D)
DOS 3 Sep 1891 4:3
WI 9 Sep 1891
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