Francis James O'Neil was born in Benburg, Tyrone Co to James O'Neil and Nancy nee: Hughes. His father died of a nose bleed when he was 5 years old. He had an older sister, Hanorah, and a younger brother John Hughes. When his father died his mother took him and his siblings to Glasgow, Scotland where he grew to a man. Married Rosa Hoy and had 8 children. He and the family migrated to the United States in 1847 and settled in Wisconsin. In 1855, his wife died and he remarried a widow, Elizabeth Nevin Pixley from Paisley, Scotland. Born to this union were 7 children. In 1866, they migrated to Iowa via a covered wagon and settled in the Maple Valley. Farmed a bit and eventually built and ran a hotel in Mapleton until his death in 1890.
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| Date of Birth | 16th Mar 1812 | |
| Date of Death | 5th Mar 1890 | |
