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in the Revolutionary Army; Henry St. George Tucker, President of the Virginia Court of Appeals; John Randolph Tucker, Attorney General of Virginia; General "Light Horse Harry" Lee, of the Revolutionary Army, and his two sons, General Robert E. Lee and Admiral Sydney S. Lee, and their notable sons. Henrietta Maria's brother, James Neale, Jr. married Elizabeth Calvert, daughter of William Calvert, the grandson of the first Lord Baltimore; and that brought the Neale family into the connection of the Calverts, including the children and grand children of Martha Washington. Another brother, Anthony Neale, married Elizabeth Roswell, and that tied another representative family into the connection. "Through the alliances with other families in later generations," says Mrs. Richardson, "we find most of the Eastern Shore families of prominence, and not a few of the Western Shore, pointing with pride to Captain James Neale and Anne Gill as Colonial ancestors." Charles Neale, grandson of Anthony and Elizabeth Calvert, left a daughter named Henrietta Maria, the heiress of Wolleston Manor, who wedded Lawrence 0"Neale, planter of Montgomery County, Maryland; and their son, John 0'Neale was the father of Rose Maria O'Neale, who was born at Wolleston Manor and married Dr. Robert Greenhow. No woman in the distinguished Neale family had more grace and beauty than this great-great-grandaunhter of Captain James Neale, and none of them her intellect and culture and power; yet she is never mentioned in the chronicles of the family. I have talked to Neales of the present generation who told me they had never heard of her; and when I recounted her deeds and the story of her remarkable life and informed them that she had conferred more distinction on the family than any of the race, they were astonished. If Mrs. Greenhow was not descended from Shane O'Neill she should have been, for to her were descended all of his noblest virtues without any of his base vices. She had his commanding height, his remarkable comeliness, his versatile mind, his tact for diplomacy, his savoir-faire, and, above all, his courage. Her enemies - of whom she had not a few - in the days of her supreme adventure, denied her the possession of any of these qualities, chiefly that of courage; but a calm, objective study of her life and cool reflection on its incidents, show that she had the highest form of courage - intrepidity and perseverance. She never knew what fear was, and only once did her heart beat faster in the presence of danger. |
Want to learn more about Rose O'Neale Greenhow and her parents, John O'Neale and Eliza Henrietta Hamilton? Check out this article sent by Mrs. Betti Moore. http://www.onealwebsite.com/mcmdrose.htm Have you ever wondered if our O'Neal Family is related
to Shane "O'Neill the Great, cousin to St. Patrick, friend to the Queen
of England, and enemy of all the world beside"? Check out this article
also sent by Mrs. Betti Moore.
Since we have now substantiated the link between the
O'Neales and the Neales, we have posted the Neale Family Genealogy on the
Web Site. You can find it here:
Want to visit the James O'Neal Cemetery? Cousin Kenneth
O'Neal has found it and taken some beautiful photos.
We've also added the Peter O'Neal cemetery Page.
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