George Thomas Neal was born at White Oak, Columbia County, April 25, 1857. After graduating from Thomson Schools, Emory College at Oxford and Vanderbilt in 1886, he began a dentistry practice in the area – Thomson, Warrenton, Norwood and Harlem.  He was the first of 4 generations of his family practicing dentistry in Thomson, followed by his son, Howard P. Neal, grandson, Thomas J. Neal, and great grandson Thomas J. Neal, Jr..  Dr. Neal married Rosa Ray of Norwood on November 11, 1881. He died in 1936.  His father James Briscoe Neal and mother, Martha W. Neal are also buried in Thomson Memorial Cemetery, Section 56.

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