HERBERT NEAL PERSON
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C14  HERBERT NEAL PERSON was born February 18, 1921 on White Oak mountain 
while a heavy snow lay on the ground. White Oak is in Van Buren County, Arkansas.
    
He is the son of B13-  Herbert and ILB-   Ethel Armstead Person. He attended school in 
Russellville and Carden Bottom and attended one term at Arkansas Polytechnic 
College in Russellville.
    
Soon after his family moved to Wing, on March 8, 1941 he married   Louise Lynch 
who was born May 20, 1923 in Carden Bottom the daughter of  W. M. and   Mattie 
Stubbs Lynch.
    
 Neal Person and  Opie Tucker of Casa were the first of the Person family to go to 
Chicago.  Louise and  Lucille went soon after to join their husbands.
   
 Carol Annette Person was born December 25, 1942. Neal was drafted into the army 
from Chicago in Cook County during World War II in 1943. He fought in the "Battle 
of the Bulge" in Belgium on December 16, 1944 where the Germans were stopped at 
the Meuse River. He returned to the states by 1946.
    
After leaving the armed services he and  Louise lived in Arkansas at Wing. Their six 
last children were born in Yell and Pope Counties. Their daughter,  Annette, first 
attended Arkansas Polytechnic College and then the University of Akansas at 
Fayetteville and she graduated in 1965.  Mary Adelaide, another daughter, entered U. 
of A. in 1965 and  Sandra in 1967.

April 4, 1958,  Neal entered Veteran's Hospital in Little Rock with tuberculosis.  Louise 
and the five children entered Booneville Sanatorium and all the family had the 
disease except  Louise.  Neal,  Louise and four of the children were home by winter.  
Annette remained longer to undergo surgery to remove a spot from her lung.
    
On August 29, 1962   Annette Person and  Jerry Miley were married at Briggsville 
Methodist Church. Reception was held in the Hignight home. They were both 
students at University of Arkansas at the time. Annette's child,  Jerry Ann Miley, was 
born July 25, 1965 in Fayetteville. Another child was born in 1968.