LIST-folk; For anyone still interested in this admittedly minor bulletin, I have finally received a definitive response from Paul O'Neill's brother Robert, who takes care of the Paul O'Neill homepage. As promised, I submit it to the LIST. Two points: Mr. O'Neill is himself a college English teacher !! Also, he has asked some questions of me about Mary Clemens, his great-grandmother and cousin of Sam, that I think other LIST members may be better armed to answer than I am. Here is the note-- >Mr. Bush, When I'm not doing this work for Paul, I teach English at a local university. I will change the phrasing to something like, "Mary, a relative of Mark Twain" It takes a while to change the content as we are extremely busy here at the office and I have close to forty papers coming by Tuesday. People should use words and thoughts accurately. Do you have any hard evidence on who this Mary was? Her people. I am quite sure my grandfather played for $75 a month in 1909 in Montana because I have a newspaper clipping announcing his departure from Ravenna, Nebraska. The article described Art O'Neill as a fine "batsman". I heard she died after bearing eight children and the oldest daughter was left to raise the children while her father traded horses. I've heard from my Aunt Lucy, who recently died at ninety, that Indians would knock on the door asking for food and that the daughter who raised the clan never had children of her own. Big surprise. But lore, especially the spoken mythology, does get embellished. My own son finds the details of my youth extraordinary and fascinating. I find myself feeling Homeric when he demands the same stories time and time again. I will have my web guy make the changes. All the best Robert O'Neill ~~~~~ Dr. Harold K. Bush, Jr. Saint Louis University