Sarah Eva Meltabarger Mayfield Neff, 1856 - 1929
Sarah Eva Meltabarger Mayfield Neff, daughter of Jacob and Sarah E. Poling Meltabarger was born on Friday, August 8, 1856 in Lima Township, Adams County, Illinois and died in her home at 1025 North 5th Street in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois on Sunday, January 17, 1929 at the age of 72 years, 5 months and 9 days.
Sarah was 1st married on November 18, 1873, to James William Mayfield, son of Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield, at Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. James W. Mayfield was a Veteran of the Civil War and lost an arm at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, during this same conflict he also received a musket ball to the chest that lodged in his right lung and was later, ultimately the cause of his death from hemorrhaging in December of 1886...When he returned from the war, he was for years the Ticket Agent and Telegraph Operator of the Rail Road and during his life time he acquired many valuable and improved properties in and around the Ursa and Marcelline area of Adams County and was considered by many to have been quite a wealthy individual. After James' death Sarah 2nd married Frank Neff, who it is said by family members, to have squandered Sarah's inheritance and left she and her children destitute. At any rate, she was buried under her 2nd husband's surname name, as Sara Eva Neff, at Quincy, in the Greenmount Cemetery, Block 4 - Lot 113 - Sec. SW - Grave N.
Sarah Eva Meltabarger Mayfield Neff, daughter of Jacob and Sarah E. Poling Meltabarger was born on Friday, August 8, 1856 in Lima Township, Adams County, Illinois and died in her home at 1025 North 5th Street in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois on Sunday, January 17, 1929 at the age of 72 years, 5 months and 9 days.
Sarah was 1st married on November 18, 1873, to James William Mayfield, son of Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield, at Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. James W. Mayfield was a Veteran of the Civil War and lost an arm at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, during this same conflict he also received a musket ball to the chest that lodged in his right lung and was later, ultimately the cause of his death from hemorrhaging in December of 1886...When he returned from the war, he was for years the Ticket Agent and Telegraph Operator of the Rail Road and during his life time he acquired many valuable and improved properties in and around the Ursa and Marcelline area of Adams County and was considered by many to have been quite a wealthy individual. After James' death Sarah 2nd married Frank Neff, who it is said by family members, to have squandered Sarah's inheritance and left she and her children destitute. At any rate, she was buried under her 2nd husband's surname name, as Sara Eva Neff, at Quincy, in the Greenmount Cemetery, Block 4 - Lot 113 - Sec. SW - Grave N.
Sarah Eva Meltabarger Mayfield Neff, 1856 - 1929
Sarah Eva Meltabarger Mayfield Neff, daughter of Jacob and Sarah E. Poling Meltabarger was born on Friday, August 8, 1856 in Lima Township, Adams County, Illinois and died in her home at 1025 North 5th Street in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois on Sunday, January 17, 1929 at the age of 72 years, 5 months and 9 days.
Sarah was 1st married on November 18, 1873, to James William Mayfield, son of Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield, at Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. James W. Mayfield was a Veteran of the Civil War and lost an arm at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, during this same conflict he also received a musket ball to the chest that lodged in his right lung and was later, ultimately the cause of his death from hemorrhaging in December of 1886...When he returned from the war, he was for years the Ticket Agent and Telegraph Operator of the Rail Road and during his life time he acquired many valuable and improved properties in and around the Ursa and Marcelline area of Adams County and was considered by many to have been quite a wealthy individual. After James' death Sarah 2nd married Frank Neff, who it is said by family members, to have squandered Sarah's inheritance and left she and her children destitute. At any rate, she was buried under her 2nd husband's surname name, as Sara Eva Neff, at Quincy, in the Greenmount Cemetery, Block 4 - Lot 113 - Sec. SW - Grave N.
Sarah Eva Meltabarger Mayfield Neff, daughter of Jacob and Sarah E. Poling Meltabarger was born on Friday, August 8, 1856 in Lima Township, Adams County, Illinois and died in her home at 1025 North 5th Street in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois on Sunday, January 17, 1929 at the age of 72 years, 5 months and 9 days.
Sarah was 1st married on November 18, 1873, to James William Mayfield, son of Uriah and Mary Jane Grimes Mayfield, at Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. James W. Mayfield was a Veteran of the Civil War and lost an arm at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, during this same conflict he also received a musket ball to the chest that lodged in his right lung and was later, ultimately the cause of his death from hemorrhaging in December of 1886...When he returned from the war, he was for years the Ticket Agent and Telegraph Operator of the Rail Road and during his life time he acquired many valuable and improved properties in and around the Ursa and Marcelline area of Adams County and was considered by many to have been quite a wealthy individual. After James' death Sarah 2nd married Frank Neff, who it is said by family members, to have squandered Sarah's inheritance and left she and her children destitute. At any rate, she was buried under her 2nd husband's surname name, as Sara Eva Neff, at Quincy, in the Greenmount Cemetery, Block 4 - Lot 113 - Sec. SW - Grave N.
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