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| Martin and Helena Bowers Neff are the first in my line of Neff's to live in Illinois. They arrived in about 1840, settling into their home one mile north of New Salem, near Petersburg, Illinois. The house they built in the late 1840's still stands. |
| Susan Frances Jackson and WH Neff were married on March 8, 1877. She originally came from Horses Cave Kentucky. Family legend has it that she was related to either Stonewall or Andrew Jackson, though this has yet to be proved. Susan and "Doc" are both buried in West Cemetery, Athens Illinois. Of their children, two of their daughters married two Yoakum brothers. |
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