Five generations, one story
The Family Tree
From Hendersonville, North Carolina to every corner of the country. Built from the family's own charts, newsletters and reunion records.
The founding generation · late 1800s
Where our story begins
The Neill Line
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Rev. John Wesley Neill
1868 - 1932
Minister and educator, remembered as one of the early principals of the Ninth Avenue School in Hendersonville, NC.
Emma Angeline Lance Neill
1873 - 1904
First wife of Rev. J.W. Neill, as recorded on the family chart.
Lula Love Liggins-Neill
1872 - 1953
Wife of Rev. J.W. Neill. Her name of Love still echoes in the family.
The Cash Line
Henderson County, North Carolina
Marion "Bud" Cash
1871 - 1930
Head of the Cash family chart kept by the Reunion Steering Committee.
Maggie Washburn Cash
1883 - 1921
Wife of Marion "Bud" Cash, as recorded on the family chart.
Lee Roy "Leroy" Cash
Honored among the Cash elders in the family gallery.
Emma Lee Cash
Honored among the Cash elders in the family gallery.
The union · early 1900s
Two names become one
Otis Benjamin Cash, Sr. & Margaret Lucille Neill Cash
The marriage that united two Hendersonville families and gave the Cash-Neill family its name. Fifteen children are recorded across the family branches; eleven survived childhood.
James Roosevelt Cash & Julia Whitney Neill Cash
A second bond between the two families. Their line carries forward through the Cash, Dunbar and Owens descendants.
The children of the Neill line
Margaret Lucille Neill Cash
m. Otis Benjamin Cash, Sr.
Julia Whitney Neill Cash
m. James Roosevelt Cash
Harriet Neill Warren
Mother of the Warren line
William J. Neill
m. Fannye Neill; father of Marion Patricia Neill Cully
Susie Neill
John Thomas Neill
Grace Lance Neill
Generation three · the branches
The fifteen branches
The children of Otis and Margaret, in the order the family records them. Eleven survived childhood; each branch opens to the descendants documented so far.
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Reached 90 years, a family milestone.
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One of the fullest recorded branches, three generations deep.
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This branch is waiting on its records. Help us complete it on the next family call.
This branch is waiting on its records. Help us complete it on the next family call.
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Navy veteran and GE industrial engineer, the seventh child born in Hendersonville.
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Keeper of the family archives, compiled across more than 40 years.
This branch is waiting on its records. Help us complete it on the next family call.
Her Kittrell line leads much of the reunion planning today.
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Through the Neill sisters and brothers
The Warren & Cully lines
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Her Cully, Smith and Duhart descendants carry the Neill name forward.
From the family albums
The faces behind the names
Treasures preserved by the family, including Otis Benjamin Cash, Sr. photographed in his own era with his name handwritten beneath. Know a face or a story? Share it on the next call so every photograph gets its name back.
The original records
Who founded the Cash-Neill family?
The family descends from two Hendersonville lines: Rev. John Wesley Neill with Emma Angeline Lance Neill and Lula Love Liggins-Neill, and the Cash line recorded under Marion "Bud" Cash and Maggie Washburn Cash. The committee's original charts are preserved below and this page keeps growing as branches add their records.
In loving memory
Forever blessed, forever remembered
The family members whose light still guides us, as recorded by the Reunion Steering Committee.
Friedrich "Fritz" Romell Cash
November 12, 1955 - February 3, 2005
Lula Mae "Love" Cash Dunbar
December 7, 1929 - May 23, 2005
Eleanor Virginia Warren Lewis
December 30, 1935 - February 6, 2006
Louis Sylvester Dunbar
July 22, 1957 - July 1, 2006
Ethel Mae Irby Cash
June 26, 1931 - March 25, 2007
Fannie Della Neill
1919 - 2007
Mary Magdalene Cash Banks
March 9, 1929 - February 5, 2008
JoAnn Leora Young Cash
January 30, 1934 - February 10, 2014
Lincoln Hampton, Sr.
March 2, 1932 - August 19, 2014
Sanford Roland Hampton
June 13, 1960 - September 25, 2014
Fleetwood Cash
August 15, 1936 - October 18, 2014
Dewane M. Hampton
October 11, 1963 - December 4, 2014
Gy. Sgt. John Wesley Cash, U.S.M.C., Ret.
September 18, 1927 - June 11, 2015
Virginia Clara Cash Kemp
March 31, 1940 - May 16, 2016
Patrice Chevelle Edmonds Harris
September 28, 1963 - December 28, 2016
Greg Banks
1959 - April 22, 2017
James Wesley Kittrell, Jr.
July 8, 1945 - November 22, 2018
Efferee Mattie Ledbetter Cash
July 16, 1927 - April 12, 2019
Margaret Lucille Cash Hampton
March 9, 1929 - September 1, 2019
Curtis Vernon Cash
transitioned August 2021
Angela Dorene Cash Gandy
transitioned February 6, 2022
Homer William Cash, Sr.
September 24, 1937 - April 25, 2022
A living document
Help the tree keep growing
Every branch above was drawn from the family's own records, and some are still waiting on names, dates and photos. Share what you know on the monthly call or add your household to the directory.