Melissa Rosetta "Zettie" Hall

1867 - 1955  (88 years)

• Name	Melissa Rosetta "Zettie" Hall  [1, 2, 3]
  Nickname	Zettie
  Born	4 Dec 1867	Farmersville, Collin County, Texas   [1, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Died	31 Dec 1955	Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma   [3, 4]
  Buried	2 Jan 1956	Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I16954	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Mashack Hall,   b. 23 Nov 1830, Greene County, Tennessee ,   d. 14 Feb 1905, Floyd, Hunt County, Texas  (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Eliza Jane Neil,   b. 18 Dec 1827, Scott County, Virginia ,   d. 11 Feb 1901, Collin County, Texas  (Age 73 years)
  Married	25 Aug 1850	Scotland County, Missouri   [5]
  Family ID	F148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hamilton Neil,   b. 11 Dec 1866, Farmersville, Collin County, Texas ,   d. Jun 1924, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma  (Age 57 years)
  Married	21 May 1893	Collin County, Texas   [3, 4]
  	VINSON MEMORIES (Published by VINSON HISTORY BOOK COMMITTEE Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995) contains a biographical sketch, along with a picture, of Hamilton Neil and his wife Rosetta (Zettie) and their four children. It notes that the Neil's, along with their four children, moved by covered wagon from Farmersville, Texas to Oklahoma around 1898. Hamilton was teaching school in Collin County, Texas, earning $30 a month, when he and Zettie married in 1893. About five years later they moved to Granite, Oklahoma where his sister, Ella, and her husband, John SHERRILL and earlier moved. Hamilton helped build the railroad at Granite working two mules and a dirt dipper. Then he moved his family north of the mountain to farm. In the 1901 lottery, he drew 160 acres near Lawton, and moved there. In January, 1907 the Neils bought a farm one and one-forth miles east of Vinson and a half mile south. At Vinson, relatives of the NEILS within visiting distances were the SHERRILLS with whom they exchanged many overnight visits and a sister of Zettie's, SARAH JONES, who lived about 10 miles west of Vinson with her family. After Hamilton died, Zettie attempted to continue farming but she had some bad luck when one of her mules ate some grasshopper poison and died, and then later the barn burned. She gave up, rented the farm, and moved into Vinson. Zettie and Ham Neil also raised her great-nephew, Jack Strong, whose mother Mary Ella Hall, died shortly when he was less than a year old.
  Children	1. Ila Jane Neil,   b. 17 Jan 1895,   d. 13 May 1896  (Age 1 years)   2. Lillie May Neil,   b. 10 Aug 1896, Farmersville, Collin County, Texas ,   d. Abt 1994  (Age 97 years)   3. Clyde Elmon Neil,   b. 1 May 1902,   d. 21 Nov 1965, Greer County, Oklahoma  (Age 63 years)   4. Elmer Hamilton Neil,   b. 12 Jun 1904,   d. 12 Apr 1981  (Age 76 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006
  Family ID	F6348	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 4 Dec 1867 - Farmersville, Collin County, Texas Married - 21 May 1893 - Collin County, Texas Died - 31 Dec 1955 - Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma Buried - 2 Jan 1956 - Cave Creek Cemetery, Vinson, Harmon County, Oklahoma  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S308] 1880 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005., (1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ? Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls. This database is an index to 50 million individuals enumerated in the 1880 United States Federal Census. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, occupation, relationship to the head of household, race, sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth, parents? place of birth. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1880 Federal Census.), ED #21, Page 109, #33-38 (Reliability: 3). [S125] Heirs of Mash & Eliza Hall, Deed for Sale of Land, State of Texas, County of Collin, V 145, P 501-510, Dated 7 Feb 1907, "Rosetta Neil joined by her husband H. Neil" (Reliability: 3). [S449] Vinson History Book Committee VINSON MEMORIES (Christins Spurlin, Chairman, Copyright 1995), p 279 (Reliability: 3). [S585] Darnell, Jeanne-Family Researcher (P.O. Box 38307, Dallas, TX 75238-0307). [S120] Hall, George E. (Dec 1996) (Presumed submitter) Ancestry.com--World Tree Search Results (Descendants of William Hall b 1706, North Ireland).