In a message dated 1/20/99 6:19:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << I'm betting that your Ephraim ties in with John and Alexander NEAVILL who also lived in Council Hill, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. >> Hi Ryan, You have a really super webpage on the Neavill family -- very comprehensive and extremely well done. I just discovered it today (joined the rootsweb Neville-L list a few days ago). I, too, have wondered, especially about Alexander M., because he was so often found in the same places as "my" Ephraim and Enoch. In the 1860 Census, he was found in Potosi, Grant Co., WI when Catharine and her three daughters were there. I had deduced the Meredith surname for his wife because of some relative living with them in one of the censuses. This is part of what I have for Alex: Generation No. 1 1. Alexander M.1 Neavill was born abt. 1810 in Kentucky (Source: Federal Census, Wisconsin, 1860, Grant Co. , Potosi Village, p.671; male, age 50, b. Kentucky. Relationship to Ephraim is CONJECTURE & unproven although he was b. in KY and lives close to Catherine in Wisconsin.D.I.W.F. 5/25/96). He married Anne E. Meredith Bef. 1836 (Source: Presumaby, before first child was born in 1836.). Children of Alexander Neavill and Anne Meredith are: 2 i. Henry C.2 Neavill, born abt. 1836 in Illinois (Source: Federal Census, Wisconsin, 1860, Grant Co., Potosi Village, p.671; male, age 24, b. Illinois, occ. lead miner). 3 ii. Frank E. Neavill, born abt. 1838 (Source: Federal Census, Wisconsin, 1860, Grant Co. , Potosi Village, p.671; male, age 22, b. Illinois, occ. lead miner). 4 iii. John A. Neavill, born abt. 1844 (Source: Federal Census, Wisconsin, 1860, Grant Co. , Potosi Village, p.611; male, age 16, b. Illinois). 5 iv. Carlos(?) E. Neavill, born abt. 1853 (Source: Federal Census, Wisconsin, 1860, Grant Co. , Potosi Village, p.671; male, age 7, b. Wisconsin.). I sure hope that Wayne Olson contacts me. Do you have Wayne's e-mail address in case he misses my post? I wish we had some better evidence of a relationship -- because propinquity is not necessarily consanguinity! One of my internet co-researchers on Ephraim, Christine Heaton, copied info from an index to newspapers in Belleville, St. Clair Co. on your Guy Neaveill -- the one killed by the train: "D.A. [I assume this is abbreviation for newpaper name] NEAVEILL, Guy killed when struck by train, while June 6, 1927 working as member of bridge building crew; age 40 years. Survived by wife and 3 children." Ephraim Neavill was a literate man [served as justice of the peace]. I have his spectacles. He unfailingly wrote his own name as NEAVILL, although others spelled it variously. . . It seems to me that the spelling that your branch has adopted has a very good reason behind it: NEAVE-ILL has to be pronounced differently than NEV-ILL! Thanks so much for your speedy reply. Diane