McNeil Family - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The brothers and sisters of the McNeil family and their children met in a family reunion at the home of a sister, Mrs. James Perrigo, in Boswell, on Sunday, September 1st. There were thirty or more of the family present and included C. H. McNeil (brother) of Chicago, Mrs. Clara Fuller (sister) and nephew Orice of Balaton, Minn., Orpheus A. McNeil (brother) and family of Kenosha, Wis., Mrs. Anna Gray (sister) and family of Kenosha, Wis., Milton McNeil (brother) and two daughters of Mayfield, Kansas, John L. McNeil (brother) of New Richmond, Rev. and Mrs. Erwin (niece) and family of Westfield, III., Mrs. Ed Marvin (niece) and son of Veedersburg, Revs. Ernest Perrigo and wife (niece) of Greenville, 111. Two brothers were not present. This reunion is not an annual occasion, that being an almost impossibility because of the widely scattered family, but is observed every five years. On Monday morning automobiles were provided and the party went to the grave of the mother, 4 miles south of Boswell, thence to the old home near Dunnington The reunion was a happy one and one long to be remembered. It was quite remarkable that so large a reunion could be had of so widely a scattered family