Grundy County, Missouri Pioneer's - Samuel McNeal

Samuel McNeal-Civil War vet.-2 Mo. Cav. Union army

     My wife's great, great grandfather served in Company E-2 Missouri
Cav.-"Merill's Horse" in the Union army. He died in 1871 and is buried in
Sires Cemetery in Trenton, Missouri under a cedar tree. His tomestone is
badly eroded and leaning. No marker is shown denoting his civil war service.
     In the 1960s cemetery inventory Samuel McNeal is listed as "a pioneer".
He was a gold miner in California in 1849 and emigrated from Lancaster, Ohio to
Trenton, Missouri about 1855.
     I applaud your efforts to record this valuable history that is slipping
away due to family neglect.

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