George Washington O'Neill

Pioneered westward from Cooke Co., TN to Clinton Co., MO 1833. After many hard winters of the northern midwest, in 1843,the family sold out and caught a riverboat at Kansas City; traveling down the Missouri River to St. Louis. Continuing on down the Mississippi River to where Arkansas, Louisiana,and Mississippi meet. Here they purchased a wagon and joined a wagontrain bound for Texas. Their original destination was the Coastal Region of Texas; but a breaking of a wagonwheel in the Leesville area delayed the O'Neil wagon. By the time the repairs could be made, the O'Neil family had found a home in the land and the community of Leesville.

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