"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

CLAY TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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ANDREW K. NEILL, farmer and stock grower, fifth son of Alfred and Rosana
(Kerr) Neill, of North Carolina, was born in Iredell County, that 
State, July 4, 825 and came into Indiana in 1847, and up to 1873 lived
alternately in Owen, Monroe and Greene Counties. Since 1873, he has
resided in Clay Township.
February 7, 1850, he married in Greene County, Naomi E. Neill, by whom
he has had born to him ten children--Minerva R(deceased), Martha Ann,
Alfred W(deceased), James G, Sarah Jane, John W, Armilda M(deceased),
two infants (deceased) not named and youngest Mary Alice. Mr and Mrs
Neill belong to the United Presbyterian Church at White Hall. January
2, 1864, Mr. Neill enrolled at Bloomington, Ind., as a private in
Company I, Tenth Indiana Volunteer Cavalry (One Hundred and Twenty 
fifth Regiment) and served to September 19, 1865. While in the service
he participated in the battles of Pulaski, Tenn., Decatur, Ala.,
Nashville, Tenn., Mobile, Ala., and any number of skirmishes not 
dignified in history with the name of battle. At Nashville, he recieved
a slight flesh wound, which disabled him a few day. His greatest injury
however, results from chronic diarrhea, contracted while out and from
which he has never recovered. In 1854, he was elected Justice of the
Peace of Clay Township, and held the office three years. For the past
twelve years he has been carrying the United States mail from White 
Hall to Bloomington. Mr. Neill owns a nice farm of eighty six acres, 
all in cultivation, well stocked and fully equipped with the necessary
agricultural implements. As a good citizen and neighbor he enjoys the
confidence and respect of the community where he has spent most of his
life, and where he is best known.

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