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Author: dlynbid
Surnames: Neal
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There is a photograph of Oliver Neal Game warden in the Hohenberger Collection (circa
1923)
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/hohenberger/results/item.do?itemId=/lilly...
There is also a mention of Oliver Neal in a book by Aldo Leopold, A Report on a Game
Survey for the North Central States. This section discusses the efforts to colonize
various types of pheasants in Indiana in the early 1910's to 1930's.
"Oliver Neal, game warden on the Brown County Refuge near Nashville (south central),
Indiana, told me that the original plantings of Hungarians((pheasants)) (probably meaning
1910) did well for a while; that they lived in the hills near fields.
He had seen none since 1926."
Brown COunty Obituary Book 2-page 981.
"Oliver Otis Neal, former resident of Nashville, was taken by death at his home on
North Illinois Street Indianapolis, August 25, 1953. Mr. Neal was born in Brown County
January 4, 1875, and served as State Park Supt and Game Warden when the park was first
opened.
He was a member of the Nashville Masonic Lodge, and tribute will be paid in the usual
Masonic manner. Bond Funeral Home is in charge of the services and have announced burial
to be today (August 27, 1953) Thursday at 2pm at the Lanam Ridge Cemetery.
He leaves behind a wife, Patty Neal, and son Fred, of Melford, Ohio, also a step-son Glen
Day of Bloomington, and brother Al Neal of Trevlac."
That's all I have... for now...lol!
Seeing as he was the first state park supt, we might want to check with the park for
anything they have in archives. Maybe....just an idea ...
Diana
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