Jackson County IL Archives Obituaries.....NEAL, Benjamin Rush December 24, 1935
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Dallas (Texas) Morning News - December 26, 1935
Rites for Retired Miller, B. R. NEAL, Will Be Thursday Resident of Dallas for
Forty-One Years and Civic Leader Passes 

Obsequies for Benjamin Rush NEAL, 85, retired manager of the Stanard-Tilton
Milling Company and resident of Dallas forty-one years, who died Wednesday
morning at his home 2725 Oak Lawn, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the home.
 Dr. H. M. WHALLING pastor of the Oak Lawn Methodist Church will officiate. 

Pallbearers will be J. M. DUNLAP, D. S. DONOVAN, W. S. GIBSON, J. R. BROWN, J.
C. WHITE and Charles RICE, Millers of Texas will be honorary pallbearers. Burial
will be at Oakland Cemetery. 

Of Colonial ancestry, Mr. NEAL was born in Mississippi.  He was named for
Benjamin RUSH, physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, who was
the family doctor at Philadelphia of Mr. NEAL's grandfather.  The famous doctor
signed the birth certificate of Mr. NEAL's father. 

During the Civil War Mr. NEAL listened to the distant bombardment of Vicksburg.
 At the close of the conflict his family moved to Illinois. Within a short time
his father died and Mr. NEAL went to work chopping cotton to assist the family,
but he soon obtained a job in a mill and learned the trade that was to be the
work of his life. 

Mr. NEAL saved from his earnings and built a mill of his own, but it burned on
the second day of its operation and he used the remainder of his money for train
fare to Dallas.  Here, in 1894, he became connected with the Stanard-Tilton
company and twenty years later he built the present plant on South Ervay.  Until
a few years ago he was active in business of the concern.  The veteran Dallasite
was for a number of years active in chamber of commerce and charity work.  He
was honorary vice-president of the United Charities. 

Mr. NEAL married Miss Lizzie Briscoe LANE in Illinois on June 17, 1874.
Surviving are his wife; a son, B. R. NEAL, Jr.; three daughters, Mrs. W. P.
BEVANS, Mrs. A. R. THOMPSON, all of Dallas and Mrs. Ray B. WRIGHT, Laredo, and
three grandchildren. 


Additional Comments:
This is a follow up to a previous obituary for Benjamin Rush NEAL, which lacked
information.

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