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Henry O'Neil
Henry
O'Neil, b. abt
1815, Cocke Co., TN, is most likely the son of Henry O'Neil who was
the
brother of Darius O'Neil.
Henry O'Neil removed to Knights Prairie,
Hamilton Co., IL, about 1856 with his eight children. In the
Hamilton
Co. census of 1860 he was listed as Henry O. Neal, thus being the
likely
source of the family's current O'Neal spelling. Henry O'Neal
enlisted
in Co. D, 6th Ill Vol. Cav., Oct. 1861 and was discharged Jan. 1863.
However
he never made it back to Illinois for an unknown reason.
Henry (Sr) and
Henry (Jr) are in the same National Archive file, since they were both
members of Co. D,6th Ill Vol. Cav. and that creates
some difficulties in sorting out what happened to Henry, Sr.
There is
no pension file for Sr.
Henry's first
born, Joseph O'Neal b. abt
1840
Cocke Co., TN, enlisted in Co. A,
40th Ill Vol. Inf.
and was at Shiloh. Joe O'Neal died of disease in the hospital at
Monterey, TN, Jun 1862, shortly after Shiloh. Joe
was probably
buried on the hospital grounds and later reinterred in an unmarked
grave at the Shiloh National Cemetery.
Henry O'Neal
(Jr)
b. abt 1844 Cocke Co., TN, enlisted in Co. D, 6th Ill Vol. Cav., Dec.
1863 and
died in the Eruptive US Army General Hospital, Louisville, KY, 24 May
1865, of consumption following measles. Henry (Jr) is buried
in Cave Hill National
Cemetery, Louisville.
John O'Neal
b. 25
Nov 1844 Cocke Co.,TN, GGF of John A. O'Neal, enlisted in Co. K, 110th
Ill
Vol Inf, Sep. 1862. John was left by the side of the road on
a
forced march in
Oct. 1862 and was subsequently assigned to the Invalid Corps, later
called the
Veterans Reserve Corps. John was discharged in Jun 1865 and
died in
Knights Prairie, Ill, 23 Aug 1928.