BIO: Samuel NEAL, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JO Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************** __________________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, page 308. __________________________________________________________________ SAMUEL NEAL, Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Indiana county, Pa., May 3, 1836, son of John and Nancy (Coleman) Neal. John Neal was a farmer, born and reared in Indiana county. He died April 12, 1896, aged eighty-nine. He was of very active habit. He had been a Presbyterian, but in his later days adopted the faith of the Seventh- Day Adventists. His wife died in 1893. Their children are: One that died in infancy; Harrison, living in California; Samuel; John Milton, married Rebecca Cunningham, of Indiana county; they reside on the home farm; Hugh, married Susan Irvin, who died in 1871, at Wilkinsburg, Pa.; Harriet, living on the home farm; Lydia (Mrs. John Noland), of Pittsburg, Pa.; Robert J., deceased; Nancy, on the home farm; and Elizabeth (Mrs. Towle). Robert J. Neal, who went out as a missionary to India, died in Aintab, Syria, of diphtheria. He had married Florence Andrews, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who accompanied his as a medical missionary, and died at the same place. Samuel Neal was educated in the common schools and at an academy. Since his youth he has always been a farmer, toiling hard and with success, to accumulate a competence for his family. He takes little interest in politics, but has served his township as school director. Samuel Neal married Nancy, daughter of William and Sarah (Gorsuch) McDivitt, both of Scotch-Irish descent. The children of this union are: Martha, Miriam (Mrs. Samuel Landis), of Oneida township; Robert McDivitt, of Schuylkill county, Pa.; H. Annie, at home; and John B., at home. Samuel Neal is a member of the Second Adventist church, at Huntingdon, Pa.