Author: Martha Anderson Morris

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Published: 1996

Total Pages: 392

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Jane Alvira McNeal was born 1895 in Lebanon, Pa., the daughter of Dr. James Elijah McNeal and Blanche Isobel Danhauer, who had been married in Zanesville, Ohio in 1894. After a few years in Lebanon family moved to Baltimore, Md. and after Jane's father, James, died in 1897 family moved to Tampa, Florida. Jane married 1917 in Tampa, Arthur Edmund Jack Anderson, the son of Ausey Wilburn Anderson and Emma Jane McMillan. They had seven children and were later divorced. The earliest known McNeal ancestor, James McNeal (ca. 1744-1823), was born in Scotland and came to America prior to the Revolution. He married in Philadelphia, Pa. 1775, Sarah Webb (b. 1751). James was a pioneer of Luzerne County. He died in Wapwallopen, Pa. Arthur Edmund Anderson was born 1892 at Copperhill, Tennessee. The Anderson family originates from Belfast, Ireland. William Henry Anderson (1791-1889) was born in Virginia or Ireland. He lived in Richmond, Va. and later moved to Habersham Co., Ga. He was married to Nancy Katherine Bowers (ca. 1791-1870) of South Carolina. Several other early emigrant ancestors came from England to Massachusetts, Connecticut and elsewhere.