South Carolina Family Group Sheet for the Reuben O'NEAL Family

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Husband: Reuben O'NEAL (1)
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   Birthdate: 30 Aug 1825 - , Yazoo, Mississippi, USA (2,3,4)
  Death date: 15 Feb 1909 - Owl Creek, Coryell, Texas, USA (5)
      Buried: 16 Feb 1909 - Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA
     Address: Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Father: Green Berry O'NEAL (Abt 1805-1855) (6,7)
      Mother: Peggy TRAYLOR (Abt 1805-Between 1835/1845) (6)
    Marriage: Abt 1848                       Place: , , Mississippi, USA
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Other Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth SIMS (1831-          ) (8)   Date: Abt 1870
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   Wife: Mary F RIGBY (9)
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   Birthdate: 1830 - , Darlington, South Carolina, USA (10,11)
  Death date: Bef Jun 1870 - , , Texas, USA (12)
      Buried:  - Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA
     Address: Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Father: Russell Thomas RIGBY (1798-Abt 1863) (13,14,15)
      Mother: Lydia SULLIVAN (Abt 1800-Abt 1843) (13,16)
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Children
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1  F  Margaret Lydia O'NEAL (17,18)
   Birthdate: 1849 - , Kemper, Mississippi, USA (17,19)
  Death date: 3 Oct 1885 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (20)
      Buried:
      Spouse: Benjamin Franklin BURNS Jr. (1845-1930) (18)
  Marr. Date: 22 Nov 1866
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2  M  John Benjamin O'NEAL (17)
   Birthdate: 23 Sep 1851 - McComb, Pike, Mississippi, USA (13,21,22)
  Death date: 9 Apr 1934 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (13,21)
      Buried: Apr 1934 - Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA
     Address: Ebenezer Cemetery, Limestone County, Kosse, Texas
      Spouse: Sarah Rachel WALKER (1856-1938) (7)
  Marr. Date: 19 Oct 1871 (22,23)
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3  F  Martha A O'NEAL (17)
   Birthdate: 1856 - , , Mississippi, USA (17,24)
  Death date: Deceased
      Buried:
      Spouse:
  Marr. Date:
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4  M  William Henry O'NEAL (25)
   Birthdate: 29 Jan 1857 - , , Mississippi, USA (17,26)
  Death date: 18 Dec 1952 - , , Texas, USA (26)
      Buried: Dec 1952 - , Limestone, Texas, USA
     Address: Fort Parker Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Spouse: Martha Lou LAWRENCE (1860-1949) (26,27)
  Marr. Date: 31 Jan 1878 - , Robertson, Texas, USA (28,29)
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5  F  Ellen Elizabeth O'NEAL (17,30)
   Birthdate: Jan 1858 - , , Texas, USA (17,30,31,32)
  Death date: 1906 - , , Texas, USA (13)
      Buried: 1906 - Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA
     Address: Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Spouse: Jefferson Davis HIGHTOWER (1852-1932) (30,33)
  Marr. Date: 16 Nov 1874 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (34)
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6  M  James Reuben O'NEAL (35,36)
   Birthdate: 10 Feb 1860 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (37,38,39)
  Death date: 10 Dec 1943 - Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA (40,41)
      Buried: 11 Dec 1943 - Mart, McLennan, Texas, USA (42)
     Address: Mart Cemetery, McLennan County, Mart, Texas
      Spouse: Eula Mae WALKER (1863-1941) (43,44)
  Marr. Date: 12 Apr 1880 - Groesbeck, Limestone, Texas, USA (45,46,47)
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General Notes: Husband - Reuben O'NEAL
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In April of 1905 Rueben applied for a pension. His pension says his name is Reubin Oneal.
It is signed R Onieal.
What is your age?   80
How long have you resided in said county and what is your post office address? 48 years,
Headsville.
What is your occupation if engaged in one? Wholly unable to work.
What is your physical condition? Worn out from old age.
In what state was your command originally organized? Texas
How long did you serve? Enlisted about 9/1861 and served till war closed.
What was the name or letter of your company and name or number of your regiment? Co. K
and 12th Texas Cavalry - served about four years.
What real and personal property do you own, and what is the present value of such
property? Don't own any property at all.
What property, and what was the value thereof, have you sold or conveyed within two years
prior to the date of your application? Chunk of a pony and some hogs worth about fifty
dollars.
Witnesses were B. F. Burns and B. T. Hammond.
His physical condition according to a doctor was "nervous exhaustion caused from old age".
The application was approved even though Rueben's name was not found on the rolls of Co. K.

...Reuben had an old green leather trunk he carried, back of his saddle all during the
Civil War.  One time at some crisis he asked Martha to hide it because it was full of
gold coins.  No one has ever found it but Dorothy had the green trunk given to her plus
other items from the Walker side...

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Death Notes: Wife - Mary F RIGBY
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probably Limestone County

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General Notes: Wife - Mary F RIGBY
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This family is difficult to trace because of the repetitive naming and the fact that so
many different families resided together. Ive seen a lot of sources that list 7 children
for Russell and Lydia - William B, Emily Ann, Mary F, Sidney F, John Owen, Martha, and
Melissa Lydia - and 8 children for Russell and Mary - Joseph A, Margaret, Russell,
Charles, Louvinia, Stephen, Benjamin, and Archie. However, I have found no sources online
that prove any of these children. I've also found sources that show most of these
children to be nieces and nephews, again I find no sources that prove any parentage. If
we go strictly with the 1850 and 1860 census records, assuming that all the children are
with the correct parents, we find John O, Robert E, Sidney, Melissa, and Stephen who are
all older than the supposed marriage date for Mary, and Joseph, Charles, Margaret and
Miranda who would be Mary's children. It's possible that our Mary Rigby O'Neal is also a
daughter of Bryant.

Last Modified: 9 Sep 2015

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Sources
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    1. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 322.  R O'Neal.
    2. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, 30 Aug 1825, Yazoo, MS.
    3. Pension File, Oneal, Reuben #11030.  age "eighty years of age" "date 4/8/1905".
    4. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60, pg 21A.  Aug 1825.
    5. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, 15 Feb 1909.
    6. Flores, Carol O'Neal. Email correspondence
    7. Stark, Carolyn.
    8. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 21.
    9. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 322.  Mary, age 30.
    10. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, about 1830.
    11. Mask, Herberta, Darlington, SC.
    12. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, She is not on the Mortality Schedule.
    13. Mask, Herberta.
    14. 1850 Federal Census, Mississippi, Kemper, pg 147A, Family 119.  Russell Rigby.
    15. Will, William Rigby, 8 Feb 1805, Duplin, NC.  Russel Rigby.
    16. Kelly, Susan A.
    17. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone.
    18. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, 324a.
    19. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, 1800 Limestone Co, TX Census, Headville,
         pg 324a.
    20. Powell, Ann Faubion.
    21. Ebenezer Cemetery, Limestone Co, Texas.
    22. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60 S 2.
    23. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60 S 2.
    24. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal.
    25. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal.
    26. Fort Parker Cemetery, Limestone Co, Texas.
    27. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Brazos, 243d.
    28. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Grimes, ED 19 Sh 10.
    29. Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 (FamilySearch.org), index, FamilySearch
         (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FXQ5-249 : accessed 28 Aug 2012), W. H.
         Oneal and M. L. Laurence, 31 Jan 1878.
    30. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, 321d.
    31. Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas.
    32. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60 Sh 19.
    33. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60 Sh 19.
    34. Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 (FamilySearch.org), index, FamilySearch
         (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FXQX-C8X : accessed 28 Aug 2012), J. D.
         Hightower and E. E. O Neal, 16 Nov 1874.
    35. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, James Rubin O'Neal.
    36. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Victoria, ED 89, pg 6A.  James R O'Neil.
    37. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Victoria, ED 89, pg 6A.  age 38, 2/1862 in Texas.
    38. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 322.  age 4/12, Tex.
    39. Death Certificate, O'Neal, James #57004.  10 Feb 1859, Mississippi.
    40. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, 7 Dec 1943, Mexia.
    41. Death Certificate, O'Neal, James #57004.  10 Dec 1943, Waco.
    42. Death Certificate, O'Neal, James #57004.  11 Dec, Mart.
    43. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, Eula Mae Walker.
    44. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Victoria, ED 89, pg 6A.  Eula M O'Neil.
    45. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, 12 Apr 1880, Groesbeck, Texas.
    46. Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 (FamilySearch.org), index, FamilySearch
         (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FXQX-86D : accessed 28 Aug 2012), James
         R. Oneal and Eula M. Walker, 12 Apr 1880.
    47. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Victoria, ED 89, pg 6A.  married 20 years.

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My Notes
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If there is no SOURCE, I have no PROOF! If the source is a PERSON, the information is HEARSAY.

 

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