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  1. Thomas Simpson NEEL: Birth: 9 JAN 1794 in Yorkville, York County, South Carolina. Death: 16 MAY 1857 in Mount Zion, Hancock County, Georgia


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a. Note:   N999 from Men of Mark in Georgia, by William J. Northen, pub. 1908, A. B. Caldwell: �Of Simpson Neel, Mr. Walker's great-grandfather, it is only known that he was an honorable citizen of Yorkville, York District, South Carolina.� [�Mr. Walker� is Billington Sanders Walker. William J. Northen, besides being an author and an educator, served as Governor of Georgia from 1887-1890. He lived much of his life in Hancock County, Georgia, and married Martha Neel, granddaughter of Thomas Simpson Neel, Sr, and aunt of Mr. Walker.] from The Walker Heritage, by Marie Stevens Walker Wood, Merriewoode, Macon, Georgia, 1956, pg. 136: Excursus Neel Thomas Neel, born 9 January 1794, at Yorkville, York District, South Carolina, was the son of Thomas, and Margaret Neel. His parents died when he was quite young. From an old paper recording a lease of land by William McMurray, and Thomas Neel it is learned that Robert Leslie was the guardian of Thomas Neel II, then seven years old. There are in the possession of family several original papers regarding a tract of land in York District, South Carolina which was inherited by Thomas Neel from his father, and mother. In a paper drawn in Hancock County, Georgia, 9 October, 1819, where the subject of this sketch was living at the time, power of attorney is given to James Campbell, Sr., to look after the said land in South Carolina. Mention is made in the document that this land was formerly in the possession of Thomas Neel, Sr., deceased. The oldest paper referring to this land is one on which is drawn a plat of the said 365 acres of land underneath which it is written: �I have surveyed for Margaret Neel a tract of land containing Three hundred, and sixty-five acres in the Indian Claim in the Catawba Nation in York County, and the State of South Carolina, and hath such shape, form, and marks as the above plat represents. Surveyed the 3rd day of April, 1794. Will Boyd.� from University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies: Bethel Church on Crowders Creek was established in 1764 by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from Pennsylvania and is the oldest organized church in York County [South Carolina]. Rev. William Richardson was the first minister to preach there and it was he who organized the church. The first elders were David Watson, John Jordan, George Denney, John Gullick, Thomas Neel and James Campbell. The residences of these members show that the congregation covered an area about twenty miles square.,


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