When James Noel Mcneel was born on 27 December 1888, in Odessa, Lafayette, Missouri, United States, his father, Paul McNeel, was 48 and his mother, Permelea Jane Yankee, was 32. He married Ida Bell Barnett on 23 December 1911, in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Jackson Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died in June 1974, in Wellington, Lafayette, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Chapel Hill, Lafayette, Missouri, United States.