Charles NEIL

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With such an influx of immigration, the township rapidly settled up. Among those who came at a later date were John Walker and William Finley. Walker came from Virginia in 1832, but was a native of Ireland. He was born in 1784, and died upon the place of his original settlement (in this township) at the great age of ninety-eight years. Finley was a son-in-law of Walker, and settled first in Kingston Township, but after a few years moved into Brown. He bought 100 acres of land, upon which he still lives with his son, and is now ninety-two years old, but growing somewhat feeble. His wife is living, and remembers quite vividly the stirring scenes of those early times, when the country round about them "was all woods" and stocked with game of all kinds. The same year of Walker's settlement in Brown, a young man named Charles Neil, now better known as "Uncle Charley Neil," came in. He was also from Virginia, and also married a daughter of Mr. Walker. Mr. Neil carried on an ashery, and taught school for some ten years, when he was elected County Surveyor. This office was given to him by the people of Delaware County from 1842 to 1864, without any solicitation on his part. In the latter year, unknown to him, he was nominated, and, afterward, elected to the office of County Auditor, which office he held for two terms. During his second term as Auditor, he was elected Mayor of the city of Delaware by an overwhelming majority.

There were others who took an active part in the formation of a Free-Will Baptist Church, and, in 1836, built a log church near the site of the Presbyterian Church. The original members were John Moore, Thomas Cowgill and wife, Isaac Eaton and wife, Orlando Root and wife, Zenas Root and wife, Thomas Agard and wife, Spofford Root and wife, Nathaniel Arnold and wife, and Isaac Thurston and wife. Rev. Isaac Eaton was the Pastor, assisted occasionally by Rev. S. Wyatt. In 1848, some twelve years after its organization \emdash years of more or less usefulness\emdash it was discontinued as a society. The next year, after the disbanding of this society, the Baptists and Methodists, together with Charles Neil, O. D. Hough, Vinal and Norton Thurston, and Thomas Hargraves, with their families, built the church in the village of Eden. Rev. William Godman, a son of Lawyer Godman, of Marion, was the preacher in charge of the circuit at the time the church was built. He was a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and a minister of considerable merit.


Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Brown, Delaware, Ohio; Roll: M432_675; Page: 312B; Image: 437.


Name: Charles Neil
Gender: Male
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Death Date: 22 Nov 1882
Death Place: Delaware, Delaware, Ohio
Age: 75
Birth Date: 1807
Birthplace: Ireland
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Race: White
Marital Status: Married
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B01594-2
System Origin: Ohio-EASy
Source Film Number: 1983726
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Collection: Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997

Charles married Elizabeth WALKER, daughter of John WALKER and Mary "Polly" ROBBINS, before 1832. (Elizabeth WALKER was born on 21 Oct 1807 in Fort Wheeling, Ohio Co, VA, died on 19 Oct 1894 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States and was buried in Oak Grove Cem., Delaware, Ohio.)