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daughter of the King of Alba (Scotland)
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REMARKS from Shane Fox:
Information for Herbert comes from Death Certificate, from St. Louis County, City of St. Louis Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1880 Federal Census for Gratiot Co MI and birth records for Gratiot Co.
Herbert and Myra resided at 816 Hamilton Blvd, St. Louis at the time of his death. He died in his sleep, overnight, and had suffered from and been treated for five years for Myocarditis.
He worked most of his life as a stillman at the Standard Oil, later American Oil, refinery in Woodriver, Illinois.


REMARKS from Shane Fox:
Information for Herbert comes from Death Certificate, from St. Louis County, City of St. Louis Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1880 Federal Census for Gratiot Co MI and birth records for Gratiot Co.
Herbert and Myra resided at 816 Hamilton Blvd, St. Louis at the time of his death. He died in his sleep, overnight, and had suffered from and been treated for five years for Myocarditis.
He worked most of his life as a stillman at the Standard Oil, later American Oil, refinery in Woodriver, Illinois.

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REMARKS
Mathew (Matt) was the youngest and the most athletic and independent of three brothers. He left home and lived independently of his parents when he was sixteen, working constuction summers and weekends while continuing to maintain respectable grades and establishing himself as a blue-chip, high-school athlete of considerable promise.
Matt died tragically in an teenage automobile accident when a another car driven by his best friend struck his.
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BIOGRAPHY from Shane Fox:
Attended University of Illinois, Library Sciences. Worked as an Executive Assistant to a Radio Station Executive in KC, MO. Died of Cancer Abt 1967

BIOGRAPHY from Shane Fox: Attended University of Illinois, Library Sciences. Worked as an Executive Assistant to a Radio Station Executive in KC, MO. Died of Cancer Abt 1967
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BIOGRAPHY from Shane Fox:
Dexter "Uncle Deck" served in the U.S. Army during WWII on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. He worked for the Shell Oil refinery in Wood River Illinois up to his death. He and his wife, Sherry, bought a small farm near Bethalto, Illinois sometime in the late fifties. He had no children.


BIOGRAPHY from Shane Fox:
Dexter "Uncle Deck" served in the U.S. Army during WWII on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. He worked for the Shell Oil refinery in Wood River Illinois up to his death. He and his wife, Sherry, bought a small farm near Bethalto, Illinois sometime in the late fifties. He had no children.

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Eocha "Oghy" O'Hanlon, son of Shane Oge O'Hanlon, lived in a castle in Tandragee, near what is today Poyntzpass, Armagh. By Irish tradition (Brehon law) he was Chief of his name and Lord of Upper and Lower Orior.

As of Henry VIII's accession to the Irish throne in 1541, the British crown had started a policy of "Surrender and Regrant" whereby the Gaelic chiefs surrendered their lands, but were re-granted them with an English title after swearing allegiance to the Crown. The offer was reiterated when Queen Elizabeth took the throne in 1558. Several of the Irish princes accepted this offer, the first being Hugh O'Neill in 1587 who was given the English title Earl of Tyrone. Oghy O'Hanlon followed his example and had his lands re-granted by letters of patent in the same year. He became a British Knight, Sir Oghy O’Hanlon, hereditary royal standard bearer north of the River Boyne. But in doing so he effectively abolished the chieftaincy, and with it Clann O'Hanlon's direct rights to the land. It should be noted that both O'Neill and O'Hanlon had little choice. Three years earlier, in August 1584 with the new Lord Deputy Sir John Perrot's army marching on Newry, both O'Hanlon and Tuelough Luineach O’Neill had waited till he was within half a mile of the town before reluctantly giving their sons to him as hostages.

O'Hanlon's Country
After half a millenium as Kings of Orior, the O'Hanlon name was synonymous with the territory which was better known as "O'Hanlon's Country". Two of the earliest maps of Ulster, Jobson's Ulster maps (c. 1590) and Norden's map of Ireland (1610), both show O'Hanlon's Country. In 1586, when Sir John Perrot created the County of Armagh, O'Hanlon's country accounted for one of the five baronies: Armaghe, Toaghriny, Orier, Fuighes (Fews) and Onylane (O'Neilland). In later times "Orier" became the Baronies of Orior Upper and Orior Lower, the southernmost two of Armagh's eight Baronies. So it is not surprising that the O'Hanlons were a major force in the new County - and slightly beyond. It is often overlooked that the Gaelic territory of Orior predates and extended beyond the Barony of that name in County Armagh. O'Hanlon's Country extended southwards into northern County Louth and to the East it encroached slightly into County Down. In fact, before the county borders were finalised, some old maps show the old O'Hanlon seat of Loughgilly in County Down

The Nine Year War (1594 - 1603)
After ascending to the throne in 1558, Queen Elizabeth I proclaimed herself head of the Irish Church (the Act of Supremacy), and went about replacing the "Old English" clergy and administrators with newly appointed Englishmen. The deposed "Old English" had fallen out of favour for their acquired local habits of dress, speaking Gaelic, and moderate sympathies with the native Irish. (After all, by the late 1500's it had been four hundred years since their arrival in Ireland with the Anglo-Norman advance.) The new administration was vehemently anti-Gael, but also anti-Catholic. To their horror, this meant the Galls (Gallic descendants of the Normans) suddenly found themselves out of favour too. Discontent led to an uprising of the Northern clanns in 1594. It was led by the O'Neills - including some of the O'Hanlons under Oghy Og, Sir Eocha's son - and the O'Donnells, supported by their new allies the Galls. The rebellion started in Ulster and spread all over Ireland to become the Nine Year War.

The Galls and the Gaels hoped for help from Catholic Spain but it was slow in coming. In September 1601, after seven years war in Ireland, the Spanish Armada sent 4,000 men to help Hugh O'Neill and Hugh O'Donnell. But the Armada landed at Kinsale in the South, while O'Neill and O'Donnell's strongholds were way up in the North. Against the odds, the Gaels marched South through enemy territory to meet the Spanish, and arrived in a matter of weeks with 12,000 men to lay siege to the English at Kinsale. By December 1601 the combined Spanish and Gael forces had the upper hand, but had been reduced to 10,000 men. Impatient to leave, the Spanish demanded an attack which took place on Christmas Eve 1601. It was disastrous and losing the Battle of Kinsale effectively marked the end of the Nine Years War. Although the war ended formally only in March 1603 when O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone submitted to the English.