SAMUEL FRENCH NEELY

SAMUEL FRENCH NEELY WAS BORN 61 YEARS AGO NEAR CLAYSVILLE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, WHERE HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD, MOVING TO IOWA IN LATER YEARS, RECEIVING HIS EDUCATION, HE WENT EAST AND ENGAGED IN RAILROAD EMPLOY. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LILLIE BARBER OF PLAIN GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA, DECEMBER 30, 1902. THREE DAUGHTERS WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, ALL OF THEM DYING IN INFANCY. THE DECEASED ENGAGED IN FARMING FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, LATER RETURNING TO THE RAILROAD EMPLOY. IN THE YEAR 1913 MR. AND MRS. NEELY MOVED TO ROSEVILLE, WHERE HE ENTERED THE EMPLOY OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC R R. COMPANY AS CONDUCTOR.

HE UNITED WITH THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN YOUTH. FOR MANY YEARS HE HAS SERVED AS AN ELDER IN THAT DENOMINATION AND HELD MANY POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN CHURCH AND BUSINESS, AND HIS GENEROSITY WAS WIDELY  KNOWN.

BESIDES HIS BEREAVED AND DEVOTED WIDOW, HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS SUDDEN PASSING, A BROHTER AND TWO SISTERS, NAMELY ; J.C. NEELY OF SAN ANTONIO TX.,  MRS. W.W. WATSON OF WASHINTON, D.C., MRS. C.T. LESAN OF MOUNT AYR, IOWA AND NUMEROUS RELATIVES AND SORROWING FRIENDS. HIS PARENTS PASSED AWAY AT MOUNT AYR, IOWA, IN 1916 AND 1925 AND A SISTER MRS. J.R. INGRAM, IN 1920 IN NEOSHO, MO. MRS. NEELY’S BROTHER-IN-LAW, REV. H.T. JACKSON, AS NOTED ABOVE, AND HIS WIFE AND A NIECE OF THE DECEASED, MISS HELEN INGRAM, ATTENDED THE FUNERAL.