This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McNeal(McNeil) Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oMB.2ACI/599 Message Board Post: Subj: Samuel McNeal-Civil war vet.-2 Mo. Cav. Union army Date: 8/9/2002 4:27:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: Jimwhitney1716 To: mio@netins.net My wife's great, great grandfather served in Company E-2 Missouri Cav.-"Merill's Horse" in the Union army. He died in 1871 and is buried in Sires Cemetery in Trenton, Missouri under a cedar tree. His tomestone is badly eroded and leaning. No marker is shown denoting his civil war service. In the 1960s cemetery inventory Samuel McNeal is listed as "a pioneer". He was a gold miner in California in 1849 and emigrated from Lancaster, Ohio to Trenton, Missouri about 1855. I applaud your efforts to record this valuable history that is slipping away due to family neglect. Sincerely yours, James E. Whitney, II member of Whitney Research Group