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TOGA NEWS
Issue 4, April, 2002
THE James O'Neal Cemetery Project Update 

Cousin Ken O'Neal has been actively working toward gathering materials to update the James O'Neal Cemetery. He has worked out the details for access 
to the cemetery with the landowner and is looking at different material to build a fence around the site.

The importance of this project was driven home recently when I received the following email from cousin Harriet Clapper.

Hi Everyone.
Just in case you have not heard.  Glenn was in Cumberland Valley and 
talked to a man by the name of McCoy about the Nave graves.  Mr. McCoy 
remembers the graves.  He called them the Nave/Miller cemetery. Anyway, Mr. McCoy told Glenn that the farm that the cemetery was on was sold.  He said 
the graves were there when this sale took place but some time afterwards they were GONE.  Mr. McCoy said that someone had pulled the stones up and threw them over a bank.  He said his sons tried to find the stones but couldn't. This was probably Christian, Barbara and Nicholas plus others. (In the graves.) I guess we will never know now when Nicholas died.  Looks like my history is lost forever......Harriet

I've heard stories like this before but they've always happened to someone else's cemetery. This was too close to home for comfort and started me to thinking how important our cemetery project is.

 We could still use additional cash donations and workers for the work party to be held this fall. If you'd like to help us protect a valuable piece of our heritage and one of our ancestor's final resting places, please contact cousin Ken O'Neal at kon@hhs.net. For more information on the James O'Neal Cemetery Project see the onealwebsite at http://www.onealwebsite.com

O'Neal Reunions

Reunion time is just around the corner. If you'd like us to post your family reunion in the newsletter, send me your information.

Reunion Flyer

On the next two pages are a flyer cousin Bev Crowe has prepared for TOGA members to help us promote The O'Neal Genealogy Association We'd like to ask everybody that is going to a reunion this year to print off some copies and distribute them to their cousins at the reunion.

Instructions for printing the flyer

  • Copy the image (Flyera.jpg) on page 4 to your hard drive 
  • Copy the image (Flyerb.jpg) on page 5 to your hard drive.
  • Open the first image using your favorite graphics program and print it on your printer.
  • Open the second image and print it on the back of the sheet you used to print the first image.
  • Fold the flyer into three equal sections