Louisa Neal

1856-1914 · Pennsylvania

Born 1856, Pennsylvania

Died 1914

Father: James Neal

Mother: Sarah Spencer

Children include Mina

Louisa Neal was a daughter of James and Sarah Neal of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Her obituaries give her age at death as 57 years, 10 months and 27 days, which places her birth on 26 May 1856. The 1900 census gave May 1855.

About 1874 she married Alexander T. Fetterman. Thirteen children were born to them. Ten were living when she died: Laura, William John, Jacob Irvin, Serena Etta, James Reese, Mary Amanda, Harriet Maude, Leroy Miles, Cora Ada and Mina Vay.

She died at home near Canoe Ridge on Wednesday, 22 April 1914, at 7:15 in the evening, of tuberculosis and pneumonia after about three months' illness. She left her husband, ten children, twenty four grandchildren, a brother, Hardy Neal, and a sister, Mrs. Norris Cameron, both of Johnsburg.

The Rev. W. F. Hamilton, pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist church at Hortons, held the funeral at her home on Friday afternoon, 24 April. She was buried in the Union Cemetery near Rossiter.

Parents

James Neal 1832-1902

Sarah Spencer (1831-1908)

Children

Mina Vay Fetterman 1898-1963

Sources

Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 15 August 1963, page 2; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 81143703, added by Doug Johnson, 22 May 2020.

Indiana Progress, 6 May 1914, page 1, column 6, and Indiana Weekly Messenger, 13 May 1914, page 1, column 4; transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 76990560.

Indiana Progress, 6 May 1914, page 1, column 6, and Indiana Weekly Messenger, 13 May 1914, page 1, column 4, both transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 76990560. Obituary of Mina Fetterman Bartlebaugh, Indiana Evening Gazette, 15 August 1963.

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