Neace

Born 1751 in Fairfax, VA.

Died in Loundon Co, VA.

Parents: George Noble & Mary Anne Alexander.

In 1780 the Neaces and Nobles came to what is now Breathitt County from southwestern Virginia and were among the

Spouse: Julie Winnie Saunders. Children: Nathan Noble, Enoch, Ethan, Mary, William, Patsy, Mollie, John.

very first settlers there. They lived in “rock houses” at first - indentations in the limestone cliffs – while they built their log cabins. This was told to me by my mother-in-law, Vesta Fugate. When they were living in Virginia’s Washington

Nathan Noble.

County, Henry Neace Sr. helped build Hamblin’s Mill in 1776. In 1790 in Kentucky, his name is spelled Niece. The family Born in 1781 in Culpepper, Va.

is traced to Germany, in the Palatinate, near Bonn. At that time, the spelling was Neihs – with Michale Neihs being Died March 23, 1858 in Lost Creek. Kentucky. Age 77.

the first immigrant, arriving in Pennsylvania in 1731. Other records indicate a family by the name of Neuss settled in m. Jane Virginia Neace, the daughter of Henry Neace & Ann Bush - daughter of James Bush and Mary Plunkett. James Germantown, PA in 1682, and that would have placed them among the first German immigrants near Philadelphia. They

is the son of Austin Bush and unknown.

were presumably dissenters, part of the Pennsylvania “Dutch” (Deutsch). George Washington mentions them in his diary George Washington Noble

as accompanying him (along with his other neighbors, the Nobles) on a surveying trip to Western Virginia. Washington b. 1824. d. 1862. Age 38.

said they still spoke with German accents, saying “dis” and “dot” for “this” and “that.” Inez says that is still typical of the m. Phoebe Campbell (Part Cherokee)

way the Neaces speak today.

Notes from Genealogy.com: “Two Yankees, Nim McIntosh and Hen Kilburn waylaid George at his home on Barge’s

Fourteen passengers bearing the name NEHS arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the ship “BRITTANIA”, with

Branch, Breathitt Co., KY and when he came out they shot and killed him. His brother Lossen Noble was killed about ship master, Michael Franklyn, on September 21, 1731, along with 200 other persons, almost all of whom were of German the same time on John Little’s Creek. George went to Missouri in 1844 and came back to Kentucky and married Phoebe origin. According to an article by the Historical Society of York County, Pennsylvania, in the July 15, 1933 issue of the Campbell, daughter of Lewis Campbell, and he named his first daughter Missouri for the state. George was a farmer.”

York Dispatch, entitled “Early Families in York County”. The patriarch was MATHIAS NEHS SR. He came with six sons

and the wives of two of them, and four small grandchildren.

Caleb Jacob Lovejoy Noble

b. 1859, KY. d. 1928. KY Age 78.

Matthias Nehs

m. Sarah Jane Noble b. 1878. d. 1954. Daughter of James Noble and Rachel Napier

Born around 1673 in Mitschdorf, Germany. Died around January 31, 1741 in Pennsylvania. His first marriage,

in 1699, was to Maria Barbara Barba, who was born on March 20, 1667 in Wuertt, Schwaldkries, Germany. She

Ambrose Noble

was the daughter of Joseph Barba and Anna Maria (Winterman) Barba. Maria Barbara Nehs died between 1731

b. circa 1896. d. 1963. Age 67.

and 1733.

m. Omega Noble

Hans Michael Nehs Sr.

Vesta Noble

b. 1701 in Alsace, Germany d. About 1745 in Indianfield, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

b. 1921. d. 2003 Age 83.

Married Anna Dorothea Pfeiffer b. about 1702 in Preutschdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, (Germany) France. The marriage was m. Edward Fugate (1912-1964)

on February 3, 1727/28 in Mitschdorf, Alsace, Germany. She was the daughter of Hans Martin Pfeiffer.

Inez Fugate

b. 1948

m. Robert Liftig. 1971. b. 1947

Hans Jacob Neece (b. 12 Oct 1738, d. Apr 1823)

Anya Liftig

Hans Jacob Neece (son of and ) was born 12 Oct 1738 in Montgomery Co., PA, and died Apr 1823 in Shenandoah County, VA.

b. 1977

He married .

m. Noel Hartman, 2011

Children of Hans Jacob Neece and Anna Maria Dittemore are:

and

i.

, b. 1755, Richmond, Spotsylvania Co. VA, d. 1815, Russell Co. VA.

Dorothy Liftig

Henry (Heinrich) Neace Sr.

b. 1981

Son of Hans Jacob Neas

m. David Martin, 2009

b. 1760 in Castlewood, Russell County, VA

m. Ann Bush, 1779, daughter of James Bush and Mary Polly Plunkett

d. 1827, Breathitt Co. KY

Virginia Jane Neace

b. Abt. 1784

d. 1881(living with G.W. Noble at the time of her death – the author of “Behold, He Cometh In The Clouds, 1910, and not Inez’s direct ancestor.)

m. Nathan Noble, Sr., 1798 in Culpepper, VA (Note the movement north and then south again)

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