Ida Ellington Peoples and Neely Peoples

The late Ida Ellington married Neely Peoples and they moved from South  Macon County to the Zion Hill community (South Wright Street recently changed to Highland St.) Tuskegee, in the early 1920s.  Their children were reared in the same house which is still owned by the the family.

Although they lived in the city, they did not give up their farm.  Neely, Ida and some of the older children would commute to the farm in South Macon County to cultivate their crops.

Their children attended elementary and high school in Tuskegee.

Their children were: Marion, Petronella, Dorothy, Johnnie, Nellie, Otherie, Uranius, Theodosia, Robert, Neely, Jr.