NEALTON COMMUNITY, submitted to "Jessamine Co., Ky 1798-1993" by Lyde Simpson Nealton, a small community on US 68, between KY 169, Keene road, extended to the Catnip Hill Road. Several Neal families lived there in early days. The "Riney-B" railroad ran through the middle of Nealton. The three Webb boys and I used to play in box cars at the railroad siding. People in Nealton rode the train to Nicholasville. I remember Mother putting me on it when I was five years old, sending me into town to spend the day with Aunt Eliza (Mrs. James) Simpson. She met me at the station, where City hall is now. It was a big experience for me. My brother Paul used to sit atop the ice house and watch the cars being switched. He loved trains. Nealton also had a country store and post office. (The post office was abandoned when rural delivery started.) Reuben and May Webb bought the store in 1922 and sold everything a family would need: groceries, candy ,soda crackers from a barrel, rounds of cheese, Honey Crust bread, (we usually had biscuits and cornbread), and it had a pump and sold gasoline. For a penny one could buy all-day and bat suckers and jawbreakers. They also had Bit-O-Honey candy bars and for a nickel one could buy a whole sack of candy. In the mid-30's, the Webbs sold the store to George LaFrance and his family who lived there a while. Later it was a night club for a short time. Both my grandfather and great-grandfather (both named William Simpson) lived just north of the store. My father lived on the other side of the railroad track. He owned the old Goods Farm which had belonged to William and Nancy Neal Lowry. Nancy was a daughter of Elijah and Mary Knight Neal. Other families in the Nealton area; Robert and Norma Simpson, who lived in my grandfather's house; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rhineheimer, across the road on the Cleveland Simpson farm; the Pleas Mathews family on Mathews' Lane; Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Lee, who ran a blacksmith shop and grist mill; Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Baker and family; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young and family; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Parks and family lived down Parks Lane; and Mr. and Mrs. F. D. (Dixie) Knight whose land was an original Revolutionary War land grant. Nealton School, a one-room school, was on the Knight farm, about 1,500 feet from the Knight house. I attended that school for eight years. My brothers William D., James, and Paul, as did my father, also attended (then it was called Greenwood).