The Neal Family
Henry and Angeline Neal and their children lived in
Shingle Springs, El Dorado Co., Latrobe and Michigan Bar and Perkins (Brighton) area for
many years (abt.1888 to 1910). They moved from Ohio to California via
Wisconsin and Iowa. They had six (known) children. Five daughter's Lily,
Laura, Lena, Angeline and Addie and a son, George. The older daughter, Lily and
their son George were born in Wisconsin. Daughters Laura and Lena were born in Iowa
and the two youngest daughters, Angeline and Addie, were born in California. The Neal's
ranch near Michigan Bar was called Kangaroo Ranch, fondly named by Angeline. Henry
Neal and his wife, Angeline, lived in Sacramento until their deaths and are buried in a
local Sacramento cemetery. Henry Neal's marker shows 1832 as his birth year and 1918 as
the year of his death. His wife Angeline Neal's marker shows 1846 as her birth year
and 1923 as the year of her death.
Addie May Neal Day was born in Shingle Springs, August 25,
1890. Addie attended Michigan Bar Grammar School as a child. She married
William Day on June 2, 1910. Addie was listed as a resident of Brighton and William
Thomas Day, a resident of Arbuckle, Colusa Co. at the time of their marriage.
Addie's sisters, Lily, Laura and Lena, were all married while living in Latrobe. A
Protestant Episcopal Church minister, Caleb Charles Peirce, presided at all three weddings
in Placerville. Addie was married in a civil ceremony in Sacramento. Addie May
Neal lived in Arbuckle from the time of her marriage in 1910 until after her husbands
death in 1936. She returned to the Sacramento area with her two youngest sons, Benjamin
and Henry in 1939 and lived there until her death in 1962 at age 71. Addie is
buried in the Day Family plot Odd Fellows Cemetery Arbuckle, Colusa County, California.
George Henry Neal, the only son of Henry and Angeline Neal, was
born November 03, 1873 in Wisconsin. After his move to California, he lived in the
Sloughhouse or Eastern Sacramento area until just prior
to his death December 9, 1953 in Fallbrook, San Diego, California. He had a twenty acre placer gold mine located about four
miles due West of Latrobe in Sacramento County (the claim is no longer in the
family). George, his sister Addie and his nephew, Henry, made their way from
Sacramento to the mine many times in a 1929 "Model A" Ford. George once
played the part of an extra, a carpetbagger, in the movie "Steamboat Around The
Bend" that was filmed on the Sacramento River. He was quite an active fellow
and spent countless Saturday nights as a square dance caller in an Oak Park dance hall.
Laura Alice Neal was born November 14, 1880 in Iowa. She married
John Waring, a native of Kansas and resident of Sly Park, El Dorado County on June 21,
1899. Laura and her family had a diary and chicken ranch east of Sacramento on
Power Inn Road near Perkins. Later Laura's family moved to a ranch, south of
Sacramento near "Seven Mile House", on Stockton Blvd., near Florin Road where
they raised pigs, cows and horses. Laura Neal Waring continued to live on the
property, after her husbands death, until her death at age 84.
Lily J. Neal was born June 06,1872 in Wisconsin. She married Charles Thielbahr, a native of Indiana and resident of Sacramento, on January 31, 1894. Lily lived for many years on Lemon Hill Road, south of Sacramento, not far from her sister Laura's ranch. Lily died at her home in 1958 at age 85. She is buried at the Old Sacramento City Cemetery, Thielbahr family plot, 10th and Broadway Sacramento, California.
Lena A. Neal was born in Iowa prior to family's move West. A resident of Latrobe, El Dorado Co., California in 1902, she married Joseph Fuller. Lena and Joseph Fuller had sons Leland and Joseph William. Lena died died in Fellows, Kern County, California November 9, 1918.
Angeline Elizabeth Neal was born, in California, April 1, 1888. She first married William Waggoner and they had three children. Angeline later married a William J. Fletcher. She died May 2, 1944, in San Francisco, and her body was returned to Sacramento where she lived at the time of her death. The death notice published, in the Sacramento Union newspaper, on May 5, 1944 indicated Angeline had been a member of the Sacramento Camellia City Rebekah Lodge No. 31.
* The information above was submitted to Sloughhouse Area Genealogical Society by H. Day and is presented here with permission of the Day family. This is for informational use only and for historical interest. No portion of this history may be copied without consent of the submitter or Sloughhouse AGS.
