Neely's Landing was named for Jacob Hays Neely, who was a grandson of Christopher Hays, one of the pre-Louisiana Purchase settlers who came to Missouri in the late 1790s/early 1800s. ----Bill Eddleman >Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:37:10 EST >From: Maestrowz@aol.com >Subject: [MOCapeGirardeau ] Re: Neely's Landing > >Hello to all, > >I am helping a friend at work with her research and she has relatives named >NEELY from Mississippi, who moved into Arkansas. I'm just wondering if someone >could tell me about the origin of the name, "Neely's Landing"? > >My own research in the Cape G. area is with my grandchildrens' Ponder >relations. > >Donnell Redlingshafer Wisniewski