Please do not REPLY to this message. Also, the person submitting this query is probably NOT subscribed to the mail list (yet). ==== PLEASE DIRECT ANY RESPONSE TO THE ADDRESS BELOW: Sheila Stewart [email protected] I wish to correspond with anyone researching William O'Neal who married M. F. Chapman; Marriage Date 7 May 1839 in Amite County. I believe they could be the parents of my great grandmother, Nancy Jane O'Neal. The story is that she was born in Ireland and rode the orphan train to live with Samuel Coward in Amite County. She was born in 1844 and had a brother named William. He went on to live in Louisiana after serving in the Civil War. All census records for both Nancy Jane and William list their birthplace and their parents as Mississippi and their children also claim their parents were born in Mississippi. Nancy Jane married Ephriam Rushing and and is buried in Amite County. Samuel Coward lived next door to the Rushings in the 1850 census. Wesson, MS -- John E Cain; 1211 Maritime Ln; Wylie, TX 75098 http://amite.msgenweb.org/ -----Amite County MS http://www.theusgenweb.org/ms/amite/ ----Cain/Ware list and My Website.