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Aunt Eva Neiman came to Whitewater in 1893 with her sister, Sue, to live with their aunt, Mary Margaret Neiman Joseph. The girls became discipline problems after the death of their mother in 1892, and their father thought that his sister could better provide the discipline and training they needed. They both matured into lovely, talented women, and Aunt Eva attended the State Normal School in Emporia, KS. She had a beautiful contralto voice, and often sang solos at church and community events. She was, for many years, a milliner. As a young woman, she dated a Reformed Church minister who jilted her. It crushed her, and she never married, but had great influence in the training of her nieces as proper young ladies in the grand Victorian style.¹

     Butler County Courthouse, El Dorado, KS. General Warranty Deed dated 6 Apr 1940. Eva Neiman to Blanche Shidler, Sue Golden, Florence Penner, and G. Paul Neiman, Sr. covering the following described real estate, located in Butler County., KS, to wit:
     Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 27, Block One, original town site of the town of Whitewater, Butler County., KS; Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, in Block Six; and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27 and 28; Block Three, S. R. Neiman Addition to the town of Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas;
     Harvey County Courthouse, Newton, KS. General Warranty Deed dated 6 Apr 1940 from Eva Neiman to the same grantees above named, and covering the following described property, located in Harvey County, Kansas:
     An undivided 1/5 interest in and to the Southeast Quarter (SE/4) and the Southwest Quarter (SW/4) and the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of Section Seventeen (17), Township Twenty four South (24S), Range Two East (2E); An undivided 1/6 interest in and to the Southeast Quarter (SE/4) of Section 21, and an undivided interest in and to the East Half (E/2) of the Southeast Quarter (SE/4) of Section 12, and undivided 1/5 interest in and to the Northeast Quarter (NE/4) of the Northwest Quarter (NW/4) of Section 13,
all in Township Twentyfour South (24S), Range Two East (2E).
     The above legal work was done by of Joe Neiman Shidler, Attorney, Tulsa, OK and communicated to the grantees in a letter dated Nov. 6th, 1940. The above transfer of property by Eva Neiman to her sisters and brother was in view of the fact that she was dying of cancer and wanted her estate (property inherited from their father, Samuel Robert Neiman) settled before her death.