Jens Heinrich F. Neergaard

Notater:

Yance Neergaard, first husband of Mary Jane Miller, father of Richard Neergaard. Was held at the infamous Southern Prision at Andersonville Georgia.

Yance was in the Civil War as a Union soldier. he was captured by the south and imprisioned at the Andersville Prision in Georgia. Some way he got a message that he was ungently needed at his home because of some family tragidy. He was able to talk the Commandant into letting him have a pass to return home and take care of this family matter, he gave his word that he would return after this matterwas disposed of. While he was home the War stopped and all of his friends told him not to return but he refused to break his word and so returned to Prision.

Befor all of the paperwork could be completed and the Prisioners could be released, he starved to death along with many more.

Død:
Var soldat i Konføderationens hær. Faldt i den amerikanske borgerkrig. Døde i fængsel i Andersonville, Georgia, USA

Jens blev gift med Mary Jane Miller den 13 jun. 1860. Mary blev født den 14 okt. 1842 i Roane County, Tennesee, USA; døde den 9 aug. 1913 i Oakesdale, Washington, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Notater:

Richard J. Neerguard, fathered an illigitamate daughter named Mary,William and Mary took in this daughter and raised her as their own. She later married John Wiley Tuten and they had children: Pearl,Beatrice,Ardith, Dorothy, and Homer. Later after Tuton died, she married Bertram Pratt and lived in Steptoe, Wash.

In the History of Roane Co. TN, page 64 school records list
Richard Neerguard, Theo Neerguard, and Paul J. Neerguard, in class 4,
1871. Also a Bud J. Neerguard in1872.

Richard blev gift med Elisa Sharp cirka 1880 i Tennessee, USA. Elisa blev født cirka 1864 i Roane County, Tennesee, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Richard blev gift med Etta Johnson efter 1890. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]