Posted on: Okmulgee Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Okmulgee/640 Surname: Carter, McNeill, Cantrell, Killian, Thrasher ------------------------- I'm looking for the family of My Grandmother's sister, Ella/Ellie McNeill Carter! I don't have a whole lot to go on but will share what I have. Ella/Ellie is (I believe) third child of William Jefferson (Billy Fox) McNeill and Mary Francis Cantrell McNeill of Iuka, Baxter and Izard Co., AR. Her siblings were Cleveland, Katherine (Kate) m. John Smith lived Henryietta, OK, Deborah (Deb) m. Charles Daniel (Charlie) Walker, Mary JeRusha (Rusha) m. John Miller, Alba Edison (Albie) m. Herbert A. (Hub) Peck (my grandparents) and Talmadge(Tal) m. Ruby Lofton. My grandmother married about 1917, since Ella was an older sister I would suspect she married about 1914-5 (although I don't think I have found a marriage record yet!) I believe they had about 4-5 male children, I think they may have all been born in AR. I think they moved from Izard Co., AR to OK in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Shortly after the family moved to OK,( thinking maybe in Olkmulgee area) Ella/Ellie died mysteriously. I do not know the date of her death. The only thing that I know specifically about the manner in which she died was from the stories of a cousin of my Father. Herman McNeill (who was son of Cleveand, the eldest brother in that family) was approximately the age of my Father (b. 1920) and I believe would have been 12 or 13 years old at the time of Ella's death, went to visit his aunt Ella that day. When he visited her house she seemed fine and had gone out into the garden and was either working some area of soil for planting or was gathering produce for the family's meal. When Herman had left her house she was just fine. Then, later that day Cleveland was notified that his sister had died. The children of Cleveland's just didn't believe it until they went to the Carter home and saw their cousins. Now exactly when this was or in what specific town in OK, I really am not sure. I seem to remember the older relatives talking about Okmulkgee and I have wondered if that may have been where this all occured but I honestly don't have a town name. I'm not sure there are any of the older generation still around to ask. Does anyone have connections to this Carter family? I don't even know the children of Ella and Bob's names. I would think because of their ages that Bob Carter would have married again, after Ella's death but I do not know that! If anyone has any knowledge of this family or of the sudden death of Ella McNeill Carter in Oklahoma, would you please get back to me? I am very interested in finding descendants of this couple and would certainly appreciate your help! Thank you very much in advance for any assistance you can provide! Donna P.S. I also have no information about parents of Bob Carter or anything about his siblings!