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11 jMr. and Mrs. Alex McNeill and children: John A. McNeill, Eula M. Farris, Bess M. Sherill, Ann McNeill,
Edwin McNeill. Baby is Kathleen M. Henley.
About this time Arthur married Sue Sears
from Searsville. They had a family of two
boys and six girls. Alex married Kate Im-
ogene Booth, daughter of Dr. Booth, on
Kate's 20th birthday. They had seven chil-
dren.
Janie married Edward Walker. They had
two girls.
Will finished reading medicine and got his
degree in medicine as Dr. W.T. McNeill. He
bought the drug store that had once been Dr.
Booth's. Dr. McNeill married Margret Tibb.
They had a son, Nelson, who never married
and a daughter Glady, who married Henry
Willard. They had two sons, Henry and
Robert.
The railroad came across the river, and the
town moved. In 1896 Alex bought the drug
store from his brother, Dr. W.T. McNeill.
The McNeill name was on most of the
businesses in town, but the Alex McNeill
Drug Store was the meeting place of all ages.
Alex operated the store until his death in
1912. Then his 19-year-old son, John, took
over the drug store, and it stayed in the
McNeill family until John's death in 1966.
Alex and Kate's children are Eula, who
married Dr. R.L. Farris of Brownwood, and
Bess, who married Royal Linton Sherrill of
Temple; John Alexander, who married Ruby
Agnes Newton; Anna, who never married;
Edwin, who married Maude Rivers Herron;
Kathleen, who married Edward Bertrand
Henley of Brownwood; and Hubert Alexan-
der (Jack), who married Lola Mae Jones. Alex
was a gentle, sweet tempered father. He
worked with the young boys in town and was
a highly honored "Woodman of the World."
He helped Kate with many of her projects. He
encouraged boys by giving them jobs in the
store. Especially he helped Claude Goodall
when he came to town to school. When he
graduated from high school, Alex helped him
to go to Tulane for his medical training.
Eula was graduating from T.C.U. when the
buildings burned. Bess graduated from
T.C.U. the first year it was in Ft. Worth. John
graduated from high school and took charge
of the drug store, because Alex was sick fortwo years. Alex died of Hodgkins Disease in
1912. John, at 19, took over a business, a
family of seven, which he managed, loved and
educated, a family which adored him. Ann
went to T.C.U., Kathleen to Daniel Baker,
Edwin to Pharmaceutical school, and Jack
married in high school and was a radio and
television technician-in-charge in the Navy
shipyard in -Bremerton, Washington, all
during the war.
by K. McNeill Henley
McNEILL, A. A. FAMILYAngus Arthur McNeill was born in North
Carolina, August 27, 1856 to Daniel and
Harriet McArthur McNeill. During the Civil
War his mother brought him, his two broth-
ers and one sister to Texas and his father
followed later. They settled in Valley Mills.
Sue Virginia Sears' parents were already in
Valley Mills, Texas She was born to Joseph
LeGrand and Mary Walker LeGrand Sears,
October 6, 1860.
It was in a log cabin donated by her father
that the Searsville Baptist Church was
formed and chartered and named for the
family. The first meeting took place there.
A.A. and Sue were married November 13,
1884 and to them were born eight children.
A.A. had a general merchandise business and
operated a bank in Valley Mills for many
years.
Willie, their first child, was born October
19, 1885. She attended Baylor University
three years and studied piano there and one
year in Dallas. She married Dr. Claude L.
Goodall and had one daughter Willie Sue,
who married Dr. Seth L. Witcher. They live
in Clifton. Willie had two grandchildren,
Susan Goodall Witcher Thomas and Seth
Lamar Witcher, Jr. Willie died in Clifton
October 31, 1968.
Second, Angus A. McNeill, Jr. was born
February 1, 1887 and died January 3, 1972.
He was married to Linna Mae McBride of
Greenville, Texas, after he had served in
France and Germany during World War I.
They were civic and church workers in Valley
Mills. Angus was a bookkeeper in the McNeill
stores and later an insurance representative.
Linna died one week before Angus.
Third, Joseph LeGrand McNeill was born
March 1, 1889 and died May 9, 1950. He was
a commissioned officer in World War I. He
married Zora Samuel of Dallas and they had
Joseph LeGrand McNeill, Jr. and Valerie
Virginia, who died at the age of eleven. Joe
was a buyer and salesman in the McNeill
stores. Joe McNeill, Jr. was a navigator in
World War II stationed in England. HeBack Row: A.A. McNeill, Angus and Joe. Middle Row: Mrs. Sue V. McNeill, Mrs. A.D. McNeill (A.A.'s
mother). Bottom Row: Mary, Willie, Emily, Agnes, Harriet, and Esther.513
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