I apologize in advance -- I know someone on the list is researching the Neilan surname, but I can't remember who. Anyway, I found the following Neilan reference in "Rosemary", by Stella Weiler Taylor [Rosemary is a 2 volume set of articles previously published in the Hamilton Journal-News and republished in book form in 1940]: pages 473-74 The other summer tragedy came a year or two later, on a July afternoon, when the Hon. John F. Neilan, Sr's little son, Tommy, aged 5, was fatally kicked by a horse while at play with other children in a Ross avenue neighbor's barn. There is an account of the accident in one of my childhood's scrapbooks. (I think it was written by Thomas Moore). The clipping says: He was at once conveyed to his father's home and Dr. Scobey was summoned. The boys accompanying Tommy are so young they can give no succinct account of the affair. A News man met Doctor Scobey and Dr. Dan Millikin last night while in consultation when they reported the lad as dying... Tommy was said to have been a remarkably bright and intelligent boy. His parents have our heartiest sympathy in their affliction." The Neilans were living at the time on South E street (in the John L. Beeler home), and John F. Heath, a nephew of Judge Neilan, was a member of the household while he was studying law. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio gives us Tommy's dates for birth and death: Thomas was born December 4, 1875, was killed by the kick of a horse, on the 19th of July 1881. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/cyc/340.htm Diane Beaty Blankets for America Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation Before us lies a new day, and in the distance a new world, ours to create by the strength of our faith.