JAMES NEELY
who was a prominent citizen of Adams County, Pa., was the father of
several well-known citizens of Holmes County. He was born in
1766, a son of John and Susan (Carr) Neely, natives of County
Down, Ireland, who in their early married life settled on the farm
where James was born and reared. James Neely
married Sarah Obleim, a native of Adams County, of Scotch
parentage and they had a family of nine children. Mr. Neely
dying in November, 1821, his wife soon afterward sold the homestead
and with her four daughters - Susan, Maria S., Harriet Margaret
and Elizabeth - moved to a small village near by and in 1826
through the influence of a son, came to Millersburgh, Holmes Co.,
Ohio, reaching here May 24. In the spring of 1827 a home was
purchased near the public square, and there the mother died in 1837,
aged seventy-one years.
The daughters were all married in Millersburgh:
Susan married Alexander Craig; Maria S. married John
E. Koch; Harriet M. married David Ross, and Elizabeth
married Robert K. Enos. Mrs. Koch and Mrs. Enos
are the only survivors of the family. Their brother,
Jonathan Neely, died in Maumee City, at the age of sixty yeas,
being a prominent citizen and the proprietor of a large hotel i that
place. The representatives of this family are well known in
Millersburgh, and are among the most highly respected of the
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