In a message dated 4/3/99 2:44:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << I think these are the Nevilles who were said to have moved north because they were opposed to slavery. >> I have heard that story told about my Jo Daviess County Neavills also [Ephraim Neavill aka Neavil/Neaville/Nevel/Nevil/Neville, b. 1806 VA m. 1st, Rachel Cox 1832 Jo Daviess Co. IL, m. 2nd Catharine (Van Hook) Heaton 1850 Lafayette Co. WI d. 1894 CA] -- that they moved north to IL with the Cox family because of opposition to slavery. This emigration must have begun sometime in the first decade of the 1800s in the case of the Coxes because they were in Kaskaskia, Randolph County, IL by 1810. Diane