Fay

Fay was the wife of Paul Neer and mother of Pauline E. Neer. The court case resulting from her husband's murder gives her name as L. Fay H. Neer. I think that the H stands for her maiden name, which I believe to have been Higinbotham. I do not know what the L stood for.

My earliest notes indicate that she may have been called Alice as well, but this is not certain:

"This women's identity needs to be confirmed with Peggy, whose letter describes asking "Alice" about Ida Jane Neer. CAQ thinks that Alice was one of the Neer wives, presumably Paul's, unless Claude married again. This "Alice" was still alive in the early 1980s. The articles in the American Journal of International Law 23:3 give Paul's wife's name as L. Fay H. Neer. This would appear to lend some support to "Higinbotham" but to call "Alice" into doubt.

I derive Fay from the 1920 federal census entry under Paul Neer which I take to be a match. Both of her parents were born in Ohio.

CAQ reports that after Paul's death, Faye took Pauline to Florida, and Jane Neer corresponded with them over the years."