While I've not had time to experiment with it heavily, I did find one reference to my Grandpa Cecil Neill in 1954 in the Farmer's Weekly Review of 7 July 1954. Once I stopped using Cecil as one of the search terms, I had more success. I had forgotten that frequently in items of this type he's simply referred to as "C. R. Neill." This reference comes from an annual Field Day held near Brooklyn, Illinois. I seem to remember as a kid going to sales that I think were sponsored by the Lamoine Valley Aberdeen-Angus Association. However, Grandpa died when I was 6 months old, so I have none of my own memories of him.
According to this Grandpa won the judging contest that day.
I bet Grandma Neill (Ida Trautvetter Neill) stayed at home. Tradition has it that Grandma rarely went to anything of this type. For the genealogical purists out there I don't have any source for that statement since I wasn't alive in 1954. But Grandma wasn't one to leave the farm except to go to "town" once a week, or the occasional visit to a doctor or relative.
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