NEAL Obedience[1]

Female Abt 1804 - Aft 1885  (~ 82 years)


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  • Name NEAL Obedience 
    Nickname Beedy 
    Birth Abt 1804  Emanuel, Georgia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Name Beedy Neal  [2
    Occupation Milliner  [1
    _UID 48B70D38EB9ED5118A064445535400007333 
    Death Aft 1885  Crestview, Okaloosa, Florida, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • Lewis Neal, brother of Obedience, is the Uncle of William Noyes (son of William Noyes). He wrote a letter from Wesson, Miss. on April 2, 1882.

      "Dear Brother(William Noyes) and Sister(Lettis Cockcroft), I rite you a few lines to tell you we are all up and well as comon & hope this will reach & find you all enjoying the same blessing. We have no news to rite you. Times is hard & dull & cash is scarce & grub is high & ____
      on is low. I will give you some of the leeding articles the press--flour is from 8 10 & 25, bacon 12 to 13, _____ 15 to 16, coffee we git 5 1/2 to 7 lbs to the dollar. Rice 10 to 11 lbs, sugar 5 to 11 lbs, corn meal 125 ea bushel and so on. Bill (William Noyes), I thought you was a coming out here this summer. I wish you wood come some time. I think I will move up to __________to a cotton mill there. That is a bout 200 miles north of this. I dont know whether I will or not, yet it is a long way, to move & I am a getting old & ______ to move & we can make a living here well. Letty, I will find you your ma & pa (William Cockcroft and Lucinda Culpepper). I had their pictures enlarged. Caroline(Cockcroft, his wife) went town last evening & had these struck off for you. I had 2 doz photographs taken about 10 years a go & they were all faded so can hardly tell them. I ricon we have the only one of them now we have a picture girly in Wesson &does very good work________________-for these pictures well. Willy denotes his to Edgar (Edgar Jerome Noyes) as a present &wishes his in return. The girls will send theirs some time not long. First, please I want you & Letty to send yours to us. Emma is a living in Natchez & Georgia was tho she has moved back to Wesson again & will live here I recon. Josephine is a living with us. They are a talking of going to keeping house again. They have been boarding with us for 8 months. We are a having of some fine weather. Know for the first time is 6 months gardens is a looking fine. Our garden is all young, but looks fine. I planted sweet potatos yesterday. Bill, I want you to tell me if you know if Henry Cockcroft if he is a living or dead. We never do get no letters from him & if you know what all of his postoffice is & tell me what Marys postoffice is. I haven't had no letter from her in over a year. Here is all of the children we have with us. Ida is the oldest & Lula is next. Mader? is next tho Will comes in between Morde? & Lula & Fanie is the baby. The purtiest of all. She a a gowing on 6 years since Feb the 9. She is small to her age. She has just come from Sunday School. She never misses a Sermon. You will see the childrens ages in figures under their names. Bill, I want you to tell me what you a dooing of for a living. Doo you work at your trade on farm or merchandis or speculate on how. Well Billey Noys I am as I am & I cant bee other wise it look like I cant do any better than I can. I work hard & live hard & all the rest dose the same & yet there is no prosper it looks like there is no better times for us. Bill, I haven't drunk a quart of spirit in 11 year & work all day and sleep at home of a nite & rest on Sunday well. That's all I can tell you a bout . Caree Owin is the last letter I had about 7 months ago. She lived at Selma, Ala. She had 7 children, 5 boys and 2 girls. I cant recolect the names & they were a trying to sell out to go to the coast where Sam Elder lives at Bay of Biloxy. Jim Owin is boss carpenter of the Selma RR & has been for 7 years. Be sure to give me Eck & Cades postoffice if you know & Marys all so. I can't rite till I hear. Well, Edgar, Will has roat you a note of nonsence. Erencis, I want you & Nora to send me your likness. It has been a long time since I saw your faces. I cant have no ____how you look. I want to see you & all so all the rest of the family. Edgar, Will send you one of his cards also. Well, I can't think of any thing else at present. Don't do like I have done. Not Rite in a month. I was a waiting to have those pictures taken for you is the cause of my not writing sooner so done delay. Well, I will close soon. H. W. Hamby & Emma has got 3 children. Henry is the oldest 5 years. Eva is the girl. She is a gowing on 4 years. Ernest is the yongest. He is about 2 year old & a very perky little boy. Hamby is Boss Weaver in the Rosalee Cotten Mill at Natches, Miss & is a doing very well & Expict Billy Doowin Georgis Husband is there also at work in the mill. Well, Bill, the overflow of the Mississippi River is distressing. There is over 1500 people in distress & no where to go & nothing to go with. The government is a giving out rations to the destitute people. If the government had not a hope them, there is no telling what would have become of them. The Wesson fever is ailing a lot now. There has been over 100 deaths here since last summer, say 8 months ago. With the typhoid fevor all young women mostly. Every few older folks & few children. Mostly young ladies & a most all weavers in the mill. Well I will close. Write soon & often. Our children all send their love and best respects to you all. I reamin your truly till death." Signed L. L. Neel
    Person ID I24041  Noyes Family Genealogy
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2014 

    Father NEAL Jonathan   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F10031  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 NOYES William,   b. 5 Aug 1795, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1834, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Marriage 1824  [1
    Children 
     1. NOYES Simeon "Thompson",   b. May 1825, Santa Rosaokaloosa, Florida Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1 Dec 1913, Milligan, Santa Rosaokaloosa, Florida, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 88 years)
     2. NOYES William,   b. 3 Sep 1834, Blakely, Early, Georgia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jan 1883, Lampasas, Lampasas, Texas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
    Family ID F9387  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

    Family 2 BARKS Littleton H.   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 26 Mar 1836  Early, Georgia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Joel W. Perry, County Clerk, Early County, Georgia entered into the official record authorization for Littleton H. Barks and Beedy Noys to marry on the 26th day of March 1836.
    Family ID F10030  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

  • Sources 
    1. [S455] Correspondence-Internet-John Noyes, Nov. 30, 1998 4:38 pm.

    2. [S530] Correspondence-Internet-Joan Berry, Nov. 30, 1998 4:38 pm.