McNEILL, LUTHER P.

MCNEILL, HARPER, NEWBY, HOSKINS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/12/2019 at 20:56:36

DENMARK TOWNSHIP

McNEILL, LUTHER P., mason, Denmark ; son of Israel McN., who was born near Whiting, Vt., afterward went . to Litchfield, Conn,, and there married Miss Mary Peck, who was born in Litchfield, Conn., 1797 ; have seven children five of whom came to Lee Co. ; the youngest Luther P., was born 1838 in Somerset Co., Ohio, where his parents moved from Vermont, and his father died in 1839. In 1846, with the remainder of her family, the mother came to Lee Co., and settled in Washington Tp. In 1861, he enlisted in the 7th I. V. I., Co. D, Capt. J. P. Harper; served through the war ; in the battles of Belmont, Mo., Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Miss., and in skirmishing to Atlanta, Ga., Lovejoy Station, then with Sherman on his memorable march to the sea ; mustered out at Louisville, Ky., 1865, having seen just four years of actual service. On his return home, he worked at the trade of mason, serving an apprenticeship of one season. In 1868, he married Miss Rebecca Newby, daughter of Isom and Catharine Newby, nee Hoskins, early settlers of Lee Co., from Ohio ; she was born in Lee Co. in 1848, and died March 8, 1874, leaving two children—Clara E., born Sept. 16, 1869; Nettie M., May 19, 1873. Republican ; Mrs. McN, was a member of the Christian Church.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879