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TOGA NEWS Volume III, Issue 2, February, 2003

Here's a correction we all need to make in our Family History. We show Ann O'Neale, daughter of William O'Neale and Elizabeth Lodge marrying Samuel Spates.
There is a record of an Anna Maria O'Neale marrying a Samuel Spates, but it turns out it was not Ann, daughter of William & Eliza. We can also find an Anna Maria Spates living in Rockville in 1865 nearby where Ann, Catherine and Eleanor O'Neale, daughters of William and Eliza are believed to be living.

Ann O'NEALE
Birth: 8 Mar 1791  (1)
Death: 6 Aug 1870 (2)
Father: William O'NEALE b: 30 Mar 1769 in Montgomery County, Maryland
Mother: Elizabeth LODGE b: 19 Jul 1769

Sources:
(1)Family Bible of William O'Neale, IV of Montgomery County, Maryland
Publication: M. Carey, No. 121 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvan ia 19(?)16
Text: Ann ONeale was born in March 8th in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one;
(2) Family Bible of William O'Neale, IV of Montgomery County, Maryland
Publication: M. Carey, No. 121 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvan ia 19(?)16
Text: Ann ONeale Died August the 6, 1870, aged 81;

Here's why we think our Ann O'Neale did not marry Samuel Spates.

Montgomery County Marriage Records at the Sween Library show that Anna Maria O'Neale married Samuel Spates in 1817.

In an excerpt from the trust of William O'Neale dated 1827 we find the following:

"To have and hold real & personal property in trust for use of Elizabeth (Lodge) O'Neale, wife of Wm. O'Neale and after her death for benefit of: Ann O'Neale, Elizabeth West, Mary Jones, Joanna Peddicord, Sarah Nicholls, Catherine O'Neale, Eleanor O'Neale, all daughters of Wm. O'Neale; and the heirs of their bodies, as tenants in common."

Notice that Williams' married daughters were all referred to by their married names. Elizabeth WEST, Mary JONES, Joanna PEDDICORD and Sarah NICHOLLS. This tells me that Ann, Catherine and Eleanor were unmarried (spinsters) in 1827.