Mabel Sims
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This Story is about: | St. Clair/May, VA > NC > AL > FL and Oneal, GA > FL
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| This story was learned: | Family Oral History and Documentary Research
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| It took place: | 1850s to 1880s
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| Where: | AL and FL
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My family came from VA>Anson County, NC>Greene County, AL>Hernando and Pasco Counties, FL.
My Great Grandparents were Hampton St. Clair (we pronounce it Sinclair) and his wife Sally, and Nathaniel Oneal and his wife Precious St. Clair Oneal.
Grampa Hampton came here to FL with the slaveholding May family. Grampa Nathaniels family came here from Georgia.
Dr. James May migrated from Anson County, NC to Greene County, AL, with his father Pleasant May.
His brother Patrick May also migrated. Patricks son John L. (Lawson?) May married his first cousin Marina Hill May, who was the daughter of Dr. James May, and his wife Matilda Howard Sanderson May.
Matilda came from Pennsylvania. When her father died, she migrated to Greene County, AL with her brother Lemuel Sanderson.
Dr. James May died before John, his wife Marina, and his mother-in-law Matilda, migrated to Hernando County, FL in 1856.
After Emancipation, Grandpa Hampton St. Clair and Grampa Nathaniel Oneal were the founders of Twin Lakes, FL.
