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TOGA NEWS Volume IV, Issue 01, January, 2004

The news article below is dated 1813 and was found in a Bedford County Newspaper
Six Dollars Reward. - LOST
ON the 19th of September, in the town of Munster, Cambria County, a RED MOROCCO POCKET BOOK. containing a five dollar bank-note, several notes of  hand, and sundry other papers of no use to any person but the owner.  Any person who may find said pocket book, and leave it with Michael M'Guire, innkeeper, in Munster, or James McCoy (?), Esq. in Ebensburg, or Benjamin
Wright in the town of Newry, or the subscriber in Greenfield township, Bedford county, shall receive the above reward.
PETER O'NEAL.
Nov. 10, 1813.
The True American, Vol. 1, No. 19, Wednesday Evening, November 10, 1813.

Later in life Peter received a pension for service in the Pennsylvania Continental Line of. PA. in the Revolutionary War. He died on October 5th, 1832 at the age of 78 years and he is buried in a family cemetery on a farm near Clearville, Bedford County,  Pennsylvania , on land which was part of his first homestead.

On July 25,1998 a marker from the Veterans Administration for his service in The Revolutionary War was dedicated by his descendents, at the 1998 O'Neal reunion which was held at his grave site.  Members of the O'Neal family and the O'Neal Reunion Committee worked together to raise funds and labored to rebuild the old cemetery. It is now a lovely place to visit, sitting on a hilltop, enclosed in a wire mesh fence, with a large American flag flying proudly overhead.