In about 1904, Jerome Fee McNeill and his wife Mary Sophia Alderson McNeill moved to Tallahassee with at least two of their younger children (Malcolm, age 12 or 13, and Warren, age 3 or 4), moving into a house whose address was then known as 19 East Clinton Street and (with renaming and renumbering in the first two decades of the 1900s) is now known as 324 West College Avenue. The house is still standing as of this writing (in 2019), at the northeast corner of College Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Jerome Fee McNeill was a professor of biology and chemistry at the nearby college, now known as Florida State University.
Two of their grown daughters (Jessie and Marjorie) may have moved back and forth for a few years between this house in Tallahassee and their grandparents' house in Richmond, Indiana, where Jerome's parents (James McNeill and Mary Jane Fee McNeill) lived for several decades at 22 South 13th Street.
Two of their grown sons (Dane and Leslie) probably never lived in Tallahassee, and three other children (Mable, Donald, and Alice) died young before the family moved to Tallahassee.
Jessie McNeill and Marjorie McNeill eventually moved permanently to Tallahassee and lived in this house for the rest of their lives, Marjorie dying in 1956 and Jessie in 1970.
The house stayed in the family until shortly after Jessie's death in 1970. When her death was announced in the newspaper, the house was broken into several times. There is no telling what family papers, photographs, Bibles, diaries, letters, etc., may have been lost at the time. However, some of the family records were salvaged by some of the local descendants.
In particular, Theresa McNeill Turner (a daughter of Malcolm McNeill) came into possession of several hundred postcards from the early 20th century, most of which had been sent to or from various McNeill family members way back then. After Theresa died, her son Ted Turner inherited the postcards. Ted surprised me at the 2019 Proctor/Mickler Reunion in Tallahassee by bringing the postcards to the reunion and offering to lend them to me. I had not known of their existence before then.
Taking advantage of Ted's generous offer, I took them home with me and have now scanned them, and they are displayed below. I have tried to organize them chronologically; some guessing was required. In some cases, I could not even guess the year.
Anyone who wishes to understand who these postcards are to and from might find this family tree chart helpful. It shows Jerome Fee McNeill and Mary Sophia Alderson McNeill and their parents, their siblings, their children, and the spouses of all: Jerome and Mary McNeill family tree
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