Hi Bev, You asked a good question,... why aren't there any Neavilles still around the southwest WI northeast IL area today, considering such good farmland. A combination of reasons, I think, namely. the kids evidently weren't very healthy, those boys who reached their teens were killed or disabled by the Civil War, and the few boys that remained weren't very prolific (two of the male survivors didn't have children). Maybe they didn't like farming, either! Alexander M. Neavill had 10 children, but only 3 made it to 20 years old (wonder if lead poisoning had anything to do with it), and two of them (Henry A. and Enoch Frank) were killed in the Civil War. The only survivor was Carlos E. Neaville, whom I found listed on the 1900 WI census in Spring Valley Town, Rock County, married 21 years but no children. John D. Neavill has 5 children, but only two survived childhood, and both were adopted by Alexander M. when John D. died in 1853. One son, James H. Neaville, was as invalid from the Civil War; I found him listed in the 1900 WI census living with his cousin Carlos in Spring Valley Town. He was listed as single. (Don't know if previously married or any children) The second surviving son of John D. Neavill was my direct line, John A.,.. b. 1844 in Council Hill, IL. He was also crippled in the Civil War, but was well enough to have 4 children afterwards, 2 boys and 2 girls. All the children survived to adulthood, and all but one son had children of their own. After the War, John was a school teacher for 22 yrs and also Grant Co WI Treasurer for 4 yrs. It appears that Alexander's widow's death in 1893 in Potosi, Grant Co, was the catalyst for the remaining Neavilles in Potosi to pull up stakes and head west. John A., with wife and 4 children, moved to Spokane, WA in 1893, then moved to the small town of Deer Park about 20 miles north of Spokane a few years later. His occupation there was "pension attorney" (!) and occasional mayor of the town. He died there in 1930. Wayne Olsen Bonney Lake, WA