McNeely Livery

Memories of Mac Series

By Mac, Ralph McNeely, Herring

My Great, Great, Grandfather, Captain Carmi Kilpatrick McNeely, moved into town around the time of incorporation.

Capt. McNeely was a school teacher. He also had a business with his brother Burgess Wilson McNeely, a livery stable on the site where the Gabriel building is now. He lived down the street in a home that Misses Mary Jane & Belle McNeely lived in until Lotus Miller bought it for her store.

CK sold his interest to his nephew John T. McNeely (B.W.'s son) & he moved it up the street & changed with the times. The business became McNeely's Esso, then Exxon before CVS bought it, tore it down & put up their current store that has it's back to Main Street, Downtown Mooresville.

Mac Herring, BA, RN, CHPN is a local Historian, member of Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society of Historians, Co-Chair of the Mooresville Museum, a Mooresville Town Commissioner, and a Hospice Nurse.