Hi Betty, Do I have your line for my database and cousins sites?? Jill ---------- : From: Betty Allison <[email protected]> : To: [email protected] : Subject: Re: [ONEALL-L] Roll call : Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 2:04 PM : : Very well said Carl. I, too, go back to Hugh and Annie Cox. My : ggg?grandmother : was Ruth O'Neal, who married Benjamin Rowe and they raised 10 children, : moving to Lincoln Co. Tn. in about 1820. I have their Bible records but : that is all of the info. that I have. I'm very grateful for that! If you : have any info on this family, I'd like to hear from you. : Thanks, Betty Allison : : ---------- : > From: Carl English Porter <[email protected]> : > To: [email protected] : > Subject: [ONEALL-L] Roll call : > Date: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 2:18 PM : > : > Hello Everybody! : > : > I guess I'd better respond to the roll call. I'm here, I'm a descendant : > of Hugh & Annie (Cox) O'Neall of Delaware. I have my O'Nealls pretty : > well sorted out, but am very interested in embellishing the records, and : > where possible, in fleshing out the bare bones. I guess you could say I : > think the O'Nealls are a special bunch, having been very prominent : > through many generations. My great grandfather's mother was an O'Neal : > before marriage. She died a young woman, yet had a profound influence : > on her offspring. Jill wrote up a nice sketch on her father, who as an : > Indiana State Legislator helped to change the map of the state. He, : > with others, got the northern boundary moved ten miles north, to : > accommodate a harbor on Lake Michigan. Every tine I see that scoop : > representing the Lake Michigan shore, or the jog represented by the : > difference between Ohio's and Indiana's northern boundaries, I am : > reminded that it was not the product of drunken surveyors, but a : > concerted effort of my great, great, great, grandfather, and others, to : > make life a little better, and a little easier for his contemporaries : > and posterity! I remember how they fled from the abomination of : > slavery, to the lands north of the Ohio River, how they stood for fair : > treatment for the Native Americans, and other minorities. As Quakers, : > they did much to advance the role of women in society. Indeed, at least : > some of their prominence in the new world, may well be due to the better : > parenting of emancipated mothers. I am reminded of the long, though : > futile, struggle to avert a war over the slavery issue. Yes, I am proud : > of my family, and the role they played in the making of our great : > nation. They had their foibles, but they had good heads on their : > shoulders, and they made a difference! One does not choose his : > relatives, but there is One who does. Explore His handiwork. : > Carl : > :