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From the Republican Watchman, Adelbert M. Scriber, Proprietor. Terms $1.50 Per Year, single copies 5 cents. Monticello, N. Y., November 29, 1918; Vol. 92, No. 50: Mrs. Alex. Neil Dies Suddenly Following Operation at Hospital, Yesterday. Her Death a Great Shock to Friends and Community at Large. Mrs. Georgia Neil, wife of Alex. Neil, of Monticello, died in Thrall Hospital, Middletown, last night, (Thursday) from an operation. She went to Middletown on Wednesday of last week. Her friends were led to believe that the operation was to be of minor importance and the startling information of her death was a shock to the community. She was one of the most beloved women of the village.
From the Republican Watchman, December 6, 1918; Vol. 92, No. 51, Pages 4 & 7: Death of Mrs. Georgiana Neil Following an Operation in Thrall Hospital. Former School Teacher and a Worker in the Church at Monticello. That we have no abiding city was very forcibly impressed upon the people of Monticello in the tearful and unusually sorrowful death of Mrs. Georgiana Neil, who died at Thrall Hospital Friday morning as was briefly mentioned last week. Mrs. Neil for several months had suffered from an internal disorder, which needed rectifying by the use of a knife and accordingly she was operated upon on Thursday, the week before her death, and rallied in fine shape. Thanksgiving night, just before the passing period, she wrote a letter home, in which she said some nice things to those she loved better than she loved herself. In a few hours she was dead. But she had set her earthly tabernacle in order a long time before the summons came for her to go over into the country where many of her friends have long resided. It was a summons clear and distinct and came near the midnight hour. The nurse saw that a change had taken place; the physician was hurriedly called, but Death beat him in the race to the bedside. It was said that a clot of blood following the operation had gathered about her heart. Mrs. Neil was born at Bridgeville Oct. 17, 1853, and was therefore on the journey to the sixty-fifth milestone. She was a daughter of Louis Henry Barnum and Elizabeth Millspaugh, both of whom predeceased her many years. Early in life, she graduated from the district school with the intention of teaching for a livelihood. The late Charles Barnum (1836-1909), afterwards editor of the Watchman, licensed her to teach. When she was becoming very much interested in the work of instructing the boys and girls how to live to be good and how to succeed in life intellectually, she met Alexander T. Neil who then resided in Yonkers, and gladly surrendered her life work for his affection and his home. And she never had cause to regret the change. It was a happy little home nest they made for themselves. That was 42 years ago. In 1895 they returned to Monticello and Mr. Neil eventually went into the grocery business, after clerking for a time in the store of the late Andrew Dunn. It was in those days that the Neils transferred from the Baptist Church of Yonkers to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Monticello and soon became actively identified with every auxiliary of the church. Mrs. Neil was lady superintendent of the Sunday School; president of the Foreign Missionary Society; member of the Ladies’ Aid and a teacher in the Sunday School. She was one of the best equipped teachers we ever knew. She knew her Bible as she knew the books from which she taught in her early days, and she possessed the happy faculty of imparting that knowledge to her class. No one could sit under the spell of her teaching and not feel better spiritually and larger mentally for having tarried with her a little while. On Monday afternoon her remains were interred in Rock Ridge Cemetery. The pall bearers were all relatives and tenderly and affectionately carried her remains to their last resting place. Thus she passed off the stage of action finely equipped for life and fully prepared for death. Her parting request to the Rev. A. A. Walker, her pastor, who took her to the hospital was: "Preach to the living" and in response to that faithful request he did that very thing at the funeral. He repeated the poem of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton on "There is No Death" and gave a good-bye glance to the ideal home in Waverly and a look intent towards the City Celestial, with its many gates. One of the touching incidents of the funeral was the gathering of the women who were associated with her in life and loved her in death. They wreathed their affections in carnations and lilies, laid them on the casket just where she could see them when she opened her eyes in Glory. Surviving her are two brothers and one sister---Mrs. A. E. Stratton, of Woodridge; H. Eugene Barnum, of Bridgeville; and Dr. H. Weston Barnum, of Pasadena, Cal. Thus passes out one of God’s noble women.
According to the Genealogical & Family History of Southern New York, Georgia Amanda, daughter of Lewis Henry and Elizabeth (Millspaugh) Barnum, was born in 1853. She married Alexander T. Neil, of Monticello, New York.
She died in Thrall Hospital, apparently of a blood clot while recovering from an operation.
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