Cemetery Records of Lincoln-Moore Counties Tennessee by Helen C. and Timothy Marsh
Rees Cemetery

Fannie B., wife of H.H. Neece
Dec. 2, 1838 - Sep. 29, 1879

Addie, Daughter of H.H. & F.B. Neece
Jan. 15, 1876 - Aug. 7, 1876

Moore County, TN Loose Records

P.25 175. NEECE, H.H. to Miss Kate Shaw
Sol. 10 May 1881 by T.J. Shaw, MG; F.M. Taylor, BM

P.44 190. NEECE, H.H. to Miss Anna L. Smoot
Sol. 24 Jul 1889 by Thos. J. Shaw, MG; H.S. NEECE, BM

History of Tennessee (Goodspeed) 1886

P. 810
Circuit Court Clerks - H.H. Neece, 1880 to present time.

P. 815
Company A, Forty-first Tennessee Confederate Infantry
H.H. Neece lost right arm at Atlanta

*Cemetery Records of Lincoln-Moore Counties, TN

Rees Cemetery

Fannie B., wife of H.H. Neece
Dec. 2, 1838 - Sep. 29, 1879

Addie, Daughter of H.H. & F.B. Neece
Jan. 15, 1876 - Aug. 7, 1876

* Moore County, TN Loose Records

P.25 175. NEECE, H.H. to Miss Kate Shaw
Sol. 10 May 1881 by T.J. Shaw, MG; F.M. Taylor, BM

P.44 190. NEECE, H.H. to Miss Anna L. Smoot
Sol. 24 Jul 1889 by Thos. J. Shaw, MG; H.S. NEECE, BM

* History of Tennessee (Goodspeed) 1886

P. 810
Circuit Court Clerks - H.H. Neece, 1880 to present time.

P. 815
Company A, Forty-first Tennessee Confederate Infantry H.H. Neece lost right arm at Atlanta

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From Fred Smoot at dogtrot@well.com

Widow's Indigent Pension
#7735
July 11 1922
Approved.

Name : Laura M Neece
Filed Apl 7. 22
Widow of H. H. Neece
41 Tenn Inf. [CSA]

Full name: Annie Laura Neece. Cookville, Putnam Co Tennessee.
Maiden name, where born: Annie Laura Smoot, Lynchburg, Moore Co Tenn
Married where: Lynchburg, Moore Co. by Elder T. J. Shaw
Husband; Harrison Hopwood Neece.
When did husband die: Mch 27, 22. [1922]
Where: Not filled in.

Lists four daughters with H. H. Neece. Not named. "Ages, 30, 28, 19, One Dead"
Property: "Have house and lot Deceased did not leave any property - as house and lot was in my name"

Family: "Two daughters, No lands or other property - Neither have any income at present."

There is more paper work but nothing exciting. The pension photocopies were sent to me along with a photocopy of the certified copy marriage certificate from Moore Co. Seems Anna had to turn in the marriage certificate in order to get the pension. (I can't find that photocopy).

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Then this came in from Fred Clark of White Co TN. clark@BLomand.Net

Cookeville City Cemetery
Anna Laura Neece b. 04 Nov 1860, d. 04 Apr 1949
H. H. Neece no dates Cpl Co A 41st TN Inf CSA

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This is from Monte Neece of Fort Worth Texas. lontour@flash.net

I have a little more on Harrison Hopwood Neece:

He and his brother, Littleberry (my gr,gr, grandfather) were in the same Conferderate Civil War unit. Littleberry was captured at the Battle of Lookout Mountain and died at the Rock Island IL POW camp. Harrison stayed with the unit and was at the Battle of Atlanta, where he lost his arm after being hit with a "cannonball". He recouperated for just two weeks before walking back to Lincoln County Tennessee. A few months later he married his first wife, Francis (Fannie) Reese. She died in 1879. I believe they had only two children, a girl and a boy. He then married a second time to a wife for whom I have no name. The had two girls, born in 1885 and 1887. Then he married a third time Annie Smoot in 1889 and they had four girls, Monnie (1890), Annie M. (1891), Kate (1893), Winnie (1902).

In 1891 he filled out a pension application in which he stated that he had a two boys, and five girls, ages one year to 25 years.

In 1894 he filled out a pension application in which he stated that he had a boy, age 9, and four girls, ages 7, 4, 2.5, and 1.

In 1903 he filled out a pension application in which he stated that he had a boy, age 18, and five girls, ages 16, 13, 12, 10 and 1.

There is a 1914 picture of Harrison with a Civil War veterans reunion posted on the internet at http://www.hsv.tis.net/~jparkes/genealogy/civpix1.htm

In 1919 he answered a Civil War veterans questionaire that was intended to give a historical and genealogical picture of the era. It asked about schooling, attitudes and so forth. You may have seen one as they are excellent resources. One of the questions was Remarks on Ancestry. It asked for details and instructed "always give full names, never referring to an ancestor simply as such without giving the full name." and "include every fact possible." Since we have never found the origin of Harrison's grandfather John Neece, we were sickened by his response to the question: "My Grandparents moved to Tennessee from Virginia." period.

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I find a John Neese having 20 acres surveyed 31 Dec 1810 in what is now Moore Co TN

This from TSLA RG 50, microfilm # 33. Survey #2909.

State of Tennessee, Second District. By virtue of an entry No. 2910 for 20 acres dated 31 Dec 1810, founded on a Military Warrant No 4068 for 228 acres issued to Hezekiah Nobles by the Sec. of N. C. dated 4 Dec 1796, I have surveyed for John NEESE, assignee of said Hezekiah Nobels,twenty acres of land situated in Lincoln Co and on the west waters of the East fork of Mulberry Creek, A north branch of the Elk River, begining at a black oak, beech, and small gum, James Lewis North east corner in George Dohertie's west boundary line No (north) of said Lewis entry, 1112 for sixty acres, running thence with Doherties line North one hunder and fourteen poles . . . thence west 28 poles to a beech and sugar tree, in the east boundry line of a 640 acre tract of land laid of for the use of the Schools, thence with said line South 114 6/10 poles to to a sugar tree, said Lewis corner, thence with his line East 28 poles to the begining. Surveyed 27th Dec 1811 by Wm Gilchrist, D S (Deputy Surveyor)

Daniel Gilchrist,
John Neese C. C. (Chain Carriers)

Note: No range or section lines given. Other research places this tract as being in S3 R5, 2nd Surveyor's District.

The survey shows a plat of the tract. It is a long, narrow tract with the narrow part at the north and south ends. On the west side, an unnamed creek enters the tract about 40 poles north of the southwest corner. It would flow southeast and exit on the east side of the tract, about 20 poles north of the south east corner. The direction of the flow would be determined by the discription, "on the West Waters of the East fork of Mulberry Creek, a north branch of the Elk River."

The other research shows that the small creek that flows accross the Neese tract flows into "Taylors Fork," which in turn flows into the Main East Fork of Mulberry Creek.

Sources:

Information is from US Census, 1850 thru 1920;
Civil War pension applications 1891, 1894, 1903;
Civil War Veterans questionaire 1919;
Civil War Widows pension application 1922.