Thomas Washington Nebergall

     Thomas Washington Nebergall was born on 14 September 1822 at Greenbrier, Kanawha or Logan County (?), Virginia. He was the son of Jacob Nebergall and Elizabeth Masterson. Thomas Washington Nebergall married, at age 26, Margaret Mariam Robinson VanBibber, age 23, daughter of David Campbell Robinson VanBibber and Jane Ann Williams, on Thursday, 21 December 1848 at Nicholas County, Virginia. Thomas Washington Nebergall died on 23 February 1896 at La Grande, Union County, Oregon, at age 73 years, 5 months and 9 days.
     From Gary R. Hawpe, ed. and Jerry, Jim and Judy Brown, comps., 'Margaret Miram Robinson VanBibber and Thomas Washington Nebergall,' Van Bibber Pioneers E-Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 6 (April 2001), pp. 11 - 14.

Thomas and Margaret (Vanbiber) Nebergalld.. were natives of West Virginia. They came west at an early day, locating in Iowa. Subsequently they became pioneer residents of Hebron, Nebraska, where they resided many years. The father died in the state of Washington, the mother passing away at Gilead, Nebraska. There were six children in the Nebergall family: William and Philip, reside at Pendleton, Oregon; David, lives at Baker City, Oregon; Jennie E., the wife of Samuel Wheeler, of Carlton, Nebraska; Victoria, the wife of Robert McGee, of Providence, Rhode Island, and Mrs. Thompson, who met and married her future husband in Hall County.

From 'History of Hall County' (1920): Biography of William Adelbert Thompson (husband of Harriet Frances Nebergall)

With 2 sons and their wives and a grandson (Charles Elmer Nebergall, orphaned son of John Andrew Nebergall) Thomas Washington Nebergall made a trip on the Oregon Trail in 1888. 'Then this family, (David J. Nebergall and his wife who were raising Charles Elmer) with another uncle and aunt (believed to be William Henry Nebergall and his wife) and the boy's grandfather (Thomas Washington Nebergall), started for Oregon in covered wagons. It took them 85 days to make the journey to Baker City. Here the Nebergalls went into the freighting business, hauling supplies and machinery to the mines at Sparta. This was in 1888, Charley stated.' From David W. Hazen, 'Charles Elmer Nebergall Who Was Born in Iowa in 1873.'

From a Newspaper clipping found in Bible of Margaret Miriam VanBibber Nebergall.

Margaret was visiting her daughter in Nebraska when her husband died in Oregon. She lived with Sam and Jennie (Elizabeth Jane ) Nebergall Wheeler and died there. 'That is why she is buried in Nebraska, and not with her husband.'

-- Mary Anna Elizabeth Brown Laflen (Granddaughter of Elizabeth Jane Nebergall Wheeler)


OBITUARY OF THOMAS W. NEBERGALL

Feb. 2, 1896, a newspaper clipping found in the Bible of Margaret Miriam VanBibber Nebergall:

'The demise of Thos. W. Nebergall, aged 73, occurred at the family residence in La Grande Sunday evening at a little after 5 o'clock. For several months Mr. Nebergall has been afflicted with cancer of the throat, and this was the cause of death. He leaves a wife and several children. The youngest son, Phil. Nebergall, was summoned from Baker City, and arrived on the evening train about five minutes after his father's death. The funeral will take place from the Baptist church tomorrow afternoon at ( ? ) o'clock.'

Thomas Washington Nebergall is buried in Block 113, Lot 1, Space 5 of the Grandview Cemetery in Union County, Oregon. (Grandview Cemetery Records, Copyright 2000 Janine M. Bork.)