Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-10
HENRY q. NEFF DEAD.
Pioneer Of County Passes Away n
Homo in Albion.

Pioneer Of County Passes Away at
Homo in Albion.
Henry G. Neff, aged 80, one Of the
real pioneers Of the county, and resi-
dent OF the Albion Llscomb neighbour
hood since 1856, died at $50 o'clock
this morning at his home In Albion OF
rheumatism and ailments induced by
his advanced years. Mr.. Neff had been
in failing health for about seven years.
For many years Mr.. Neff was far
mer, but retired in 1894 and moved to
Albion. He Is widely known, espec-
tally turnout the northern part Of the
county.
Henry Goodlow Neff was a native OF
Champaign county, Ohio, where he was
born May 81, 1884. son of Samuel
ind Elizabeth Stickler Neff. Young Nefl
was reared to manhood In his native
state and at the age Of % took the ad-
vice Of Horace Greeley and came west
one Of a party Of five young men from
Ohio. Neff's introduction to Marshall
county was on Oct. 3, 1885, when night
overlook the members Of the party
near farm house and Neff slept In a
hay stack. to have his slumbers dis
turbed all night long by bowling or
proving wolves seeking prey in the
nearby timber and prairie.
As Marietta then was the county
seat that place was the objective OF
the Ohio men. AS it developed Neff
was the only one Of the party to re-
main in the county, and he never re-
GREETED that he had the fortitude to
brave the Inconvenience Of the then
pioneer life. He went to work on a farm
three miles north Of what is now AL
blon, got his start by day labor on the
farm and as q carpenter for Larltin q
Price. Later, for three years, he worked
for Solomon Arney, father Of u. F. and
Carey E. Arney on the Arney farm
now the home farm of c. E. Arney.
On July 9. 1851, Mr.. Neff took as his
wife Miss Nancy Arney. a sister Of
Solomon Arney, and daughter Of John
and Mary M. Boyles Arney. who had
come to this county in 1S49. After their
marriage MIR. and Mrs. Neff went 10
live on an eighty-acre farm about three
miles south Of Liscomb, where they
remained until they moved to Albion
Mr.. and Mrs. Neff were staunch sup
porters of and active workers in the
Old Bethel church, and later became
members Of the present Bethel Grove
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neff never had any
children. but they adopted a son and
daughter. and reared another boy
Their foster son is Carey III. Neff. of
Liscomb township, who was Hilsa-
beck, and Mrs. Matthias Hauser. of this
city. who was Rosie Weatherly, and
sister Of Mrs w. S. Devine, Of this
city. The other boy, whom they
reared but never legally adopted, Is
Bert Griggs, a son Of Ephralm Griggs
who has been making his home witt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Neff and assisting in their
care.
In addition to his wife and foster
children Mr. Nefr is survived by three
brothers. four half brothers, and half
sister. The brothers are Peter. John
and Joseph Neff. Of Marion, IND; and
the half brothers and sister are Aaron
Jonas. Daniel, and Michael Neff, and
Miss Emma Neff, Of Urbana, O. Two
Of Mrs. Neff's sisters were the late Mrs.
John II. Hauser, mother Of Mrs. Eliza
Whitacre, of this city. and George and
Lemert Hauser. of Bethel Grove. and
the late Mrs. Jacob Hauser. mother Of
Matthias Hauser, Of this city.
Funeral services will be held Friday
afternoon at 1870 from the Methodist
church at albion, being preceded by a
prayer service at the house at 1. Burial
will follow in the Bethel Grove ceme-
terry