MCNEFF  SMITH  RINKER

"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
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WILLIAM A. MCNEFF, farmer, was born in Brown Township, Morgan County, Ind.,
March 25, 1838, and is the seventh of the ten children born to Thomas W. and
Sarah (Smith) McNeff, natives of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, and respectively
of Scotch-Irish and German descent.  William A. was reared upon the home
farm, and attended the subscription schools.  His father brought him to
Indiana in an early day, coming to Harrison Township.  There he was married,
and afterward came to Morgan County.  In 1852, William A. went from Indiana
to Iowa with his father, and there remained until 1862.  Mr. McNeff, Sr.,
died in 1856.  After returning to Indiana, William A. went to Washington
County, and afterward went to Orange County, and came to Morgan County in
1871.   Since that time, he has resided in this township.  He is engaged in
cultivating a farm of 120 acres, improved, and having a fine residence,
besides other appliances necessary to a finished farm.  It is also stocked
with horses, hogs, cattle and sheep.  On December 28, 1872, he was married
to Mary C. Rinker, a native of Clay Township, Morgan County, and a daughter
of William and Eleanor Rinker.  They have had two children--Leslie, born
February 8, 1874, and Don Clyde, born September 13, 1882.  Mrs. McNeff is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and is a Democrat, having cast his fist ballot for James
Buchanan.  In earning a competence, he has been aided by no one, having been
dependent entirely upon himself.


Transcribed by: Diana Flynn 
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Date: 5 Dec 1997