Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 967
NATHANIEL NEELEY

Nathaniel NEELEY, (deceased), was one of the early pioneers in Harrison County, coming in 1852, and located in Little Sioux Township. He was a native of Kentucky, born in Fayette County, October 1794, the son of James and Margaret NEELEY. He spent his early life and obtained his education in Kentucky and moved to Green County, Ohio in 1835, and in 1850 to Des Moines, Iowa, and from there to Harrison County. The sons, Thomas and Robert, came in 1850, owned several farms, and helped plat the village of Little Sioux. Thomas was the first Representative the county had in the General Assembly. Mr. NEELEY first located on section 18, where he bought a claim of Sission A. CHASE, who went to Salt Lake with Brigham YOUNG.

Our subject was married in 1821 to Melinda BUTLER, a native of Scott County, Kentucky. They reared a family of nine children -- Sarah A., (Mrs. SHARPE); James (deceased); Robert H., (deceased); Thomas B., in the State of Washington; Louisa, (Mrs. MCEVERS), (deceased), who was the first person married in Harrison County; Mary J., (Mrs. MCCOLLOUGH); Martha E., (Mrs. PORTER), (deceased); Hugh, lives at Mapleton, Iowa.

The subject of this sketch, who will be remembered by the early settlers of Harrison County, passed from the scenes of this life, March, 1875. His wife died in 1861. Mrs. Malinda (BUTLER) NEELEY belonged to the Presbyterian Church, while he held to the Universalist faith. They were both buried in the Murray Cemetery.

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