Texas 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) (8)
    Marriage: Abt 1848                       Place: , , Mississippi, USA
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Other Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth SIMS (1831-    ) (9)   Date: Abt 1870
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   Wife: Mary F RIGBY (10)
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   Birthdate: 1830 - , Darlington, South Carolina, USA (11,12,13)
  Death date: Bef Jul 1870 - , , Texas, USA (14)
      Buried:  - Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA
     Address: Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Father: Russell Thomas RIGBY (1798-Abt 1863) (15,16,17)
      Mother: Lydia SULLIVAN (Between 1801/1804-Bef 1846) (18,19)
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Children
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1  F  Margaret Lydia O'NEAL (20,21)
   Birthdate: 16 Sep 1849 - , Kemper, Mississippi, USA (22,23)
  Death date: 3 Oct 1885 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (24)
      Buried:
      Spouse: Benjamin Franklin BURNS Jr. (1845-1930) (25,26)
  Marr. Date: 22 Nov 1866
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2  M  John Benjamin O'NEAL (27,28)
   Birthdate: 23 Sep 1851 - McComb, Pike, Mississippi, USA (29,30,31)
  Death date: 9 Apr 1934 - Mexia, Limestone, Texas, USA (28,32)
      Buried: 10 Apr 1934 - Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA (28)
     Address: Ebenezer Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Spouse: Sarah Rachel WALKER (1856-1938) (33,34)
  Marr. Date: 19 Oct 1871 (35,36)
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3  M  William Henry O'NEAL (37,38)
   Birthdate: 29 Jan 1855 - , , Mississippi, USA (39,40,41)
  Death date: 18 Dec 1952 - , , Texas, USA (38,42)
      Buried: 20 Dec 1952 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (43)
     Address: Fort Parker Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Spouse: Martha Lou LAWRENCE (1860-1949) (44,45)
  Marr. Date: 31 Jan 1878 - , Robertson, Texas, USA (46,47)
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4  F  Martha A O'NEAL (48)
   Birthdate: 1856 - , , Mississippi, USA (49,50)
  Death date: Deceased
      Buried:
      Spouse:
  Marr. Date:
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5  F  Ellen Elizabeth O'NEAL (51,52)
   Birthdate: Jan 1858 - , , Texas, USA (53,54,55,56)
  Death date: 1906 - , , Texas, USA (57,58)
      Buried: 1906 - Kosse, Limestone, Texas, USA
     Address: Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
      Spouse: Jefferson Davis HIGHTOWER (1852-1932) (59,60,61)
  Marr. Date: 16 Nov 1874 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (62)
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6  M  James Reuben O'NEAL (63,64)
   Birthdate: 10 Feb 1860 - , Limestone, Texas, USA (65,66,67)
  Death date: 10 Dec 1943 - Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA (68,69)
      Buried: 11 Dec 1943 - Mart, McLennan, Texas, USA (70)
     Address: Mart Cemetery, McLennan County, Mart, Texas
      Spouse: Eula Mae WALKER (1863-1941) (71,72)
  Marr. Date: 12 Apr 1880 - Groesbeck, Limestone, Texas, USA (73,74,75)
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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.

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Death Notes: Child - James Reuben O'NEAL
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He was in a "private hospital" at 1515 N 5th, Waco, for four months prior to his death.


Last Modified: 11 May 2017

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Sources
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    1. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  R O'Neal.
    2. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, Reuben 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.  age 74, Aug 1825, Mississippi.
    5. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, Reuben O'Neal.  15 Feb 1909.
    6. Flores, Carol O'Neal, Greenberry O'Neal. Email correspondence
    7. Stark, Carolyn, Greenberry O'Neal.  about 1805, Mississippi.
    8. Flores, Carol O'Neal, Peggy Traylor. Email correspondence
    9. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 21.
    10. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  Mary O'Neal.
    11. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, Mary F Rigby.  about 1830.
    12. Mask, Herberta, Mary F Rigby.  Darlington, SC.
    13. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  age 30, South Carolina.
    14. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, Mary F Rigby.  She is not on the Mortality Schedule.
    15. Mask, Herberta, Russell Thomas Rigby.
    16. 1850 Federal Census, Mississippi, Kemper, pg 293-4 (147B-148A), hh #119.  Russell Rigby.
    17. Will, William Rigby, 8 Feb 1805, Duplin, NC.  Russel Rigby.
    18. Mask, Herberta, Lydia Sullivan.
    19. Kelly, Susan A, Lydia Russell.
    20. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  M Oneal.
    21. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 21 (324B).  M L Burns.
    22. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  age 11, Mi.
    23. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 21 (324B).  age 31, Mississippi.
    24. Powell, Ann Faubion, Margaret Lydia O'Neal.
    25. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 21 (324B).  B F Burns.
    26. 1870 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 47 (172A), d/f #327/338.  Benjamin F Burns.
    27. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  Jno Oneal.
    28. Death Certificate, O'Neal, John Benjamin #19037.
    29. Ebenezer Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas, John Benjamin O'Neal.  23 Sep 1851.
    30. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60, pg 21A.  Aug 1847.
    31. Death Certificate, O'Neal, John Benjamin #19037.  23 Sep 1851, Mississippi.
    32. Ebenezer Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas, John Benjamin O'Neal.
    33. Stark, Carolyn, Sallie Walker.
    34. Death Certificate, O'Neal, John Benjamin #19037.  Sarah Rachel O'Neal.
    35. Stark, Carolyn, Sallie Walker.  but he was in Limestone County in 1870.
    36. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60, pg 21A.  married 30 years.
    37. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  H Oneal.
    38. Death Certificate, O'Neal, William Henry #61930.
    39. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  age 5, Mi.
    40. Fort Parker Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas, William Henry O'Neal.  29 Jan 1857.
    41. Death Certificate, O'Neal, William Henry #61930.  29 Jan 1857, Henry City, Alabama.
    42. Fort Parker Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas, William Henry O'Neal.  18 Dec 1952.
    43. Death Certificate, O'Neal, William Henry #61930.  Glenwood Memorial Park.
    44. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Brazos, pg (243D).  Martha L Oneal.
    45. Fort Parker Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas, Martha Lou O'Neal.
    46. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Grimes, ED 19, pg 10A.  married 22 years.
    47. 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.
    48. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  Martha Oneal.
    49. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, Martha A O'Neal.
    50. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  age 4, Mi.
    51. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  Ellen Oneal.
    52. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 16 (321D).  E E Hightower.
    53. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  age 2, Tex.
    54. Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas, Ellen E Hightower.  1862.
    55. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 16 (321D).  age 22, Texas.
    56. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 60, pg 19A.  age 40, Jan 1860, Texas.
    57. Mask, Herberta, Ellen Elizabeth O'Neal.  1906.
    58. Eutaw Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas, Ellen E Hightower.  1906.
    59. Mask, Herberta, Jefferson Davis Hightower.
    60. 1880 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 93, pg 16 (321D).  Jeff Hightower.
    61. Death Certificate, Hightower, Jeff Davis #26696.
    62. 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.
    63. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, James Rubin O'Neal.
    64. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Victoria, ED 89, pg 6A.  James R O'Neil.
    65. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Victoria, ED 89, pg 6A.  age 38, 2/1862 in Texas.
    66. 1860 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, pg 17 (322).  age 4/12, Tex.
    67. Death Certificate, O'Neal, James #57004.  10 Feb 1859, Mississippi.
    68. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, James Rubin O'Neal.  7 Dec 1943, Mexia.
    69. Death Certificate, O'Neal, James #57004.  10 Dec 1943, Waco.
    70. Death Certificate, O'Neal, James #57004.  11 Dec, Mart.
    71. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, Eula Mae Walker.
    72. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Victoria, ED 89, pg 6A.  Eula M O'Neil.
    73. Haralson, Katherine O'Neal, James Rubin O'Neal.  12 Apr 1880, Groesbeck, Texas.
    74. Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 (FamilySearch.org), Oneal, James R.  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.
    75. 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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