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TOGA NEWS Volume III, Issue 4, April, 2003

JOHN O'NEAL was born October 19, 1854, in Southampton Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a farmer and livestock dealer. On March 7, 1875 he married MARGARET ALICE DICKEN, born July 7, 1858. During the Civil War while his older brothers were in the service, JOHN O'NEAL, assisted his father BERNARD O'NEAL in caring for the horses, as they were engaged in selling remounts to the Union Army. The animals that they did not want to sell were hidden in the Sweet Root Gap in Tussy Mountain, and JOHN O'NEAL being a boy not yet in his teens stayed with the animals hidden on the mountain. After the Civil War they continued on operating the Four Hundred Forty-acre farm, and dealing in livestock, There were Nine (9) children born to this marriage, they were as follows
1. BERNARD HUGHES O'NEAL.
2. CHARLES ELWOOD O'NEAL,
3. IRVIN OSCAR O'NEAL,
4. RHODA MAY O'NEAL,
5. ADAH PLEASANT O'NEAL,
6. EDGAR ROY O'NEAL,
7. ANNA GRACE O'NEAL.
8. MARSHALL RAY O'NEAL. and
9. SCOTT ROSS O'NEAL.
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JOHN O'NEAL, died September 26. 1935, and was buried in the East View Cemetery, Chaneysville, PA. MARGARET ALICE DICKEN passed away July 10, 1939, and was laid to rest beside her husband JOHN O'NEAL. EDGAR ROY O'NEAL and ANNA GRACE O'NEAL remained at home and cared for their parents until their passing.

IRVIN OSCAR O'NEAL, born September 26, 1879 in South Hampton Township, Bedford County, PA. On October 2, 1907 he married VIOLA GERTRUDE DIEHL, born March 25, 1886, in Southampton Township, Bedford County, PA. The daughter of BERNARD DIEHL, and EMMA (CONRAD) DIEHL The wedding ceremony was performed in Cumberland, Maryland. They started housekeeping in Ridgely, West Virginia, and IRVIN OSCAR O'NEAL, was employed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, working in the yards at Cumberland Maryland. Sometime shortly after their marriage, in 1908 they moved to Iowa, as IRVIN OSCAR O'NEAL had spent approximately three (3) years in that area before marriage. Working as a farm hand, Cattle feeding, assisting in establishing homesteads in Nebraska. They lived in various locations in Iowa, until the spring of 1915, when they had a sale and returned to Pennsylvania, They purchased 238 acres of land in Monroe Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and lived there the remainder if their lives, with the exception of a period in 1928 to 1950, when they purchased the property that contains PETER and SARAH (SPARKS) O'NEAL's GRAVES. Due to the depression they were forced to sell that property, and move back to the 258 acres that they had bought in 1915, that surrounded the Frame Church, and cemetery.
IRVIN OSCAR O'NEAL. Died October 25. 1952. and is buried in the Frame Church Cemetery, located along Township Road # 565 (Frame Church Road) VIOLA GERTRUDE (DIEHL) O'NEAL died May 29. 1971. and she was laid to rest beside her husband IRVIN OSCAR 0'NEAL in the Frame Church Cemetery. From their marriage the following children were born..