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• Name: Mary NEELY
• Sex: F
• Birth: 1776 in Tyrone Co, Ireland ^b
• Death: 9 Aug 1854 in Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania ^d
• Burial: South Buffalo Cemetery, Pennsylvania ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John NEELY Birth: Tyrone Co, Ireland
Mother:

• Elizabeth WIGTON Birth: Tyrone Co, Ireland

Family:
Marriage:

• Alexander SAWHILL on 28 Sep 1798 at Lancaster, Pennsylvania .^m1
  
• Alexander SAWHILL Birth: 1777 in Ireland Death: 19 Sep 1837 in East Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania

Children:

1. William SAWHILL Birth: 29 Aug 1799 in Bart Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 6 Nov 1865 in Claysville, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
2. Mary SAWHILL Birth: 4 Sep 1801 in Bart Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
3. Elizabeth SAWHILL Birth: 17 Oct 1803 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 28 Nov 1884 in Cambridge, Ohio
4. Neely SAWHILL Birth: 2 Jul 1805 in East Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 5 May 1870 in Columbus, Ohio
5. James SAWHILL Birth: 25 Feb 1807 in West Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 18 Jun 1876 in Cambridge, Ohio
6. Isabella SAWHILL Birth: 27 Oct 1808 in Claysville, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 10 Jan 1846 in Washington, Guernsey Co, Ohio
7. Benjamin SAWHILL Birth: 1 Oct 1810 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 12 Dec 1892 in Sewickley, Allegheny Co, Pennsylvania
8. John SAWHILL Birth: 6 Dec 1812 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 30 Aug 1887 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
9. Robert SAWHILL Birth: 18 Jan 1815 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 19 Jun 1875 in Cambridge, Guernsey Co, Ohio
10. Martha SAWHILL Birth: 22 Feb 1817 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 14 Jan 1857
11. (Unk son) SAWHILL Birth: 28 Jul 1818 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 26 Aug 1818 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
12. Jane SAWHILL Birth: 22 Nov 1819 in E Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
13. Alexander SAWHILL Birth: 31 Jan 1823 in East Finley Twp, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 26 Apr 1891 in Peru, Iowa

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Duane Sawhill 8/6/1994, SawhillDB SAWHILL p12, Shields SAWHILL p5]

abt 1776 [Ref: Ed Davis 2/16/2002],

place:

[Ref: Shields SAWHILL p5]

Ireland [Ref: Ed Davis 2/16/2002, SawhillDB SAWHILL p4],

parents:

[Ref: Ed Davis 2/16/2002, SawhillDB SAWHILL p12, SawhillDB SAWHILL p4, Shields SAWHILL p5]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Duane Sawhill 8/6/1994, Ed Davis 2/16/2002, SawhillDB SAWHILL p12, SawhillDB SAWHILL p5],

place:

[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p12]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: SawhillDB SAWHILL p12]

Sources with Information about marriage to Alexander SAWHILL

date:

[Ref: Duane Sawhill 8/6/1994, Ed Davis 2/16/2002, SawhillDB SAWHILL p4, Shields SAWHILL p4],

place:

[Ref: Shields SAWHILL p4]

Eastern Pennsylvania [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p729]

Pennsylvania [Ref: Ed Davis 2/16/2002],

child:

[Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p729, Duane Sawhill 8/6/1994, Ed Davis 2/16/2002, SawhillDB SAWHILL p132, SawhillDB SAWHILL p13, SawhillDB SAWHILL p141, SawhillDB SAWHILL p145, SawhillDB SAWHILL p152, SawhillDB SAWHILL p48, SawhillDB SAWHILL p4, SawhillDB SAWHILL p53, SawhillDB SAWHILL p5, SawhillDB SAWHILL p60, SawhillDB SAWHILL p6, SawhillDB SAWHILL p7, Shields SAWHILL p5, Shields SAWHILL p6]

Research Notes:
Daughter of native-born Irish parents. Married to Alexander SAWHILL in eastern Pennsylvania. After the death of his parents, the couple moved to Washington Co, PA, about the year 1803. [Ref: Beers WashingtonCoPA p729]

"[Elizabeth NEELY]'s sister Mary ... raised a family ... on a farm adjoining ours." [Ref: William Todd 4/1916]

Tombstone inscription in South Buffalo United Presbyterian Church Burying Ground: "Mary Sawhill, wife of Alex., died Aug 9, 1854, aged 78 years" [Ref: Keyhole Jul94 SoBuffaloChurch]

---------- From letter of William N. Todd, Crestline, Ohio, to Mrs D.S. (Hazel) Meaden, 429 Williams Blvd, Springfield, IL, April 1916.
.......
Now as to a little history on Grandmothers side. Neelys' were all home in Ireland at a place known as Milltown on account of its natural water-power advantages and is the greatest flax growing and producing section in Ireland. Large flax industries are operated continuously by water power. A large landed estate surrounding this linen manufacturing little city as well as all of the site of the city was bequeathed to my grandmothers sister Mary on the day of her infant baptism, and was thus recorded in the archives of the church (Presbyterian), where a faithful record of every child born in the church was kept, and also recorded by the same hand in the family bible, so the two would correspond and corroberate, neither being of any value without the other. The language was "that she and hers were the heirs as long as grass grew and water ran". Now when she became a young woman and all she loved on earth and was dearer to her than all else besides, was to be parted from her to come to America, she could not be persuaded to remain behind, although a millionaire if she had. She came with the rest, and married a noble Christian man; raised a lovely and respected family of five, two sons and three daughters on a farm adjoining ours. Where Uncle and Aunt died, and their boys and girls went to Kansas about 50 years since. All dead except the descendant, my name-sake.
But you ask about the inheritance. Well, that is dead also. Sometime after coming to America, the family bible containing a-fore-said record, misteriously disappeared; never was or could be found. Agents went and traced the whole business up but nothing doing unless first producing the bible with corresponding record as that in the church record. After so many years had elapsed according to their law, it passed into Chancery, was sold and deposited in Bank of England, London, to nation's credit. I guess England needs it now worse than we do; it will help then to run down the Germans. It would amount now to several millions. So our people have contributed (I won't say willingly) a reasonably good share to help on the right side of this awful un-godly war. [Ref: William Todd 4/1916]



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 /-----John NEELY
Mary NEELY
 \-----Elizabeth WIGTON



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