Someone on this list (e.g. Phil Cohen) might find this piece interesting... I certainly did! John O'Neale STOCKHAM was native to Camden, New Jersey. Hence this email. He was apparently in the lumber industry, as many STOCKHAMs were, He was the son of George & Margaret B. O'Neal(e) STOCKHAM. Dates? January 12, 1838 to June 18, 1878. He died in, or on the way to, Philadelphia. He died from? Get this... family tradition (not out of harmony with circumstantial evidence and history) has him dying of African Fever! Here is a Pennsylvania news article: ITEM #106785 October 28, 1875 THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER Philadelphia, Pennsylvania "AN ENTERPRISING PHILADELPHIAN" Among the cabin passengers on the American line steamer Illinois, for Liverpool, from Philadelphia, September 2, was Mr. J.O. Neale Stockham who goes the second time to Liberia. On a sailing vessel machinery will be sent out for manufacturing indigo. Mr. Stockham left the first time in October, 1874, and remained six months, putting up a steam coffee hulling machine, and making extensive preparations for growing coffee. He returned on the 4th of July. He will spend several weeks in Liverpool, and take with him a steam launch, for running on the St. Paul's river. He is a member of the firm of Edward S. Morris & Co. It is pleasant to see an enterprising citizen thus engaged in opening new fields for trade. Mr. Stockham proposes to make an exploring trip toward the sources of the Niger river, in company with Hon. J. Milton Turner, United States minister resident in Liberia, Rev. Dr. Blyden, and others, for geographical discoveries." I found much in the last 24 hours on the ship, the persons mentioned in the article, the disease, and Liberia. It all makes sense. Is there anyone who might possibly (unlikely) have further information? The fellow who uncovered the cause of this disease found it was mosquito-caused (the insect carrying the virulence). I have not yet found either his definite place of death (maybe on board, maybe in Philadelphia, or maybe even in Liberia, though oral tradition lists only the first two possibilities). Nor do I know his place of death. Oh. Did I mention his wife? Get this: Mary Garophelia Mohalba TREADWELL, the daughter of a very interesting grandfather, Captin Charles TREADWELL, of New Hampshire. Tales of pirateering, etc., etc.! Thanks, Vince Summers