Anna (Hobson) Neff (abt. 1829 - 1913)

Born about 29 Oct 1829 in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States

Wife of Abner Gilbert Marsh Neff — married 27 Nov 1851 in Connellsville, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Descendants

Died 16 Aug 1913 at about age 83 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Doris Smith [send private message] and Sherrie Kohler [send private message]

Biography

Anna Hobson was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania October 29, 1829 to John W. and Abigail Hobson.

According to "Descendants of Emanuel Neff" she was born in "Pennsville, Fayette, IA." I do not know what the author's source was, but it is incorrect according to the affidavit signed by Anna Hobson Neff and her brother and sister-in-law upon application for Abner's Civil War pension ^[1].

She married Abner Gilbert Marsh Neff November 27, 1851. They had five children-- four boys and one girl, Mary Elizabeth.

After the death of her husband in 1862 (from wound received during the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas), she was living in West Union, Fayette County, Iowa on 14 April 1863. Anna's widow's pension was $17.00 a month until she died in 1913.

As Anna Neff aged and her children had families of their own, she lived with her daughter Mary and her husband Rev. Samuel P. Marsh. Rev. Marsh's profession meant that they moved at times, and it was when they lived in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama that Anna Neff died. She lived with her daughter, Elizabeth, at the time of her death in 1913. She died of "senile dementia and injuries received in a fall down the stairway at her home."

She is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sources

1. ↑ Pension Application by Anna Hobson Neff after death of Abner Gilbert Marsh Neff's death

<Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, published in 1891, page 523.</> After Abner's death, Anna moved from Auburn, IA to West Union, IA, in 1863. At the time the article in Portrait and Biographical Album of Fayette County, Iowa was published in 1891, Anna was living in Chicago, IL "She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a most estimable woman."

<Source: Quigg, Gary, comp. Iowa State Census, 1885 [database online].Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2003. Original extended description for original data sources listed by county. Original data: Lyon County, Iowa State Census, 1885. Family History Library film # 1021493.</> Surname: NEFF Given Name: Anna Location: Block 6 Lot 7 and 8 Age: 55 Sex: F Marital Status: W Birth State: PA Father's Nativity: F Line Number: 5 Dwelling Number: 28 Family , Number: 29 Page Number: 203 County: Lyon Co. Township Name: Rock Town: Rock Rapids 1st Ward Family History Film: 1021493 Volume: 225

• 1910 History of Fayette Co. IA

• Alabama Deaths, 1908-59 Volume 14, Certificate 319, Role 1

• Source: Portrait and biographical album of Fayette county, Iowa. Containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. Chicago: Lake City Publishing Company. 1891. pages 522-524.