Corel Cousins

This past week I have been working on the last family to marry the children of William and Rebecca Oney Corel, the McGhee/McGee family.  The father of the three children who married three Corel siblings was James Joseph McGhee, born October 28, 1796 in Treanamullin, Stranorlar, County Donegal, Ireland to Margaret Stewart and Thomas M’Ghee.  [...]

For the 11th Edition of

Anyone who knows me knows that I am incapable of making decisions and narrowing things down! So, for my first participation in the Smile for the Camera carnival, I have selected eight photos of brothers and sisters from youth to adulthood. I did at least pick only one photo [...]

Very little is actually known about Rebecca Oney, but what has been able to be pieced together by census records, land warrants, and the like makes me feel quite honored to call her my fourth great grandmother.
Rebecca Oney was born August 26, 1791 either in Richlands, Russell County, Virginia or a short distance away in [...]

I’ve been working away here on Corel Cousins and just realized that I hadn’t shared with you all what I’ve been doing and what new pages I have added!
The last update blog post I did, I wrote about how I did not think that Robert Emmitt McGlothlin was a child of Judith Leathers and John [...]

William Corel was born April 7, 1828 in Tazewell County, Virginia. William was the ninth child, and second son of William Corel and Rebecca Oney.  He married Margaret Ann McGee about 1857 in Douglas County, Kansas.  Margaret was born December 3, 1827 in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania.
William Corel traveled west with his family from Virginia [...]