Neal, William

Born: 1822-XX-XX Kentucky

Flourished: DeWitt County, Illinois

William Neal, a farmer, married Elizabeth Hall in September 1845 in DeWitt County, Illinois. The couple had five children by 1860. In May 1853, Neal was a member of the jury that found Moses Loe, a client of Abraham Lincoln, guilty of manslaughter in the stabbing death of James Gray.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Dewitt County, IL, 411; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Tunbridge, DeWitt County, IL, 68-69; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, DeWitt County, 4 September 1845, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; People v. Loe, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=135583; History of DeWitt County, Illinois (Philadelphia: W. R. Brink, 1882), 86.