Looking for parents of Samuel and Andrew J. Neel
I am looking for the parents of Samuel and Andrew J. Neel. Samuel was born in 1831 probably in Clark County, Indiana and died in Van Zant County, Wills Point, Texas in February 1879. Both men served in the Civil War under Captain Young and Colonel Overton Young's 12th Texas Infantry, Company A. Both were musicians in the war, at least until Samuel Neel got his transfer to the Engineers Corp in July 1864. Both men enlisted in the Confederate Army in the winter (November - December) of 1861. I have their military records, but I cannot confirm yet who their parents were.
I do not know who (if anyone) Andrew married, but Samuel married an Amelia Graebe (she was married previously to William I. Graebe). Samuel would have married Amelia sometime between 1865 and 1868, Samuel and Amelia had one son together in 1869 name Charles William (or Wilson?) Neel.
Charles is my 2nd great-grandfather. He married Rhoda Johnson and he died in 1945 in Greenwood, Indiana. My great-grandmother was Mabel Victoria Neel who died in Florida in 1974.