History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 656. OSCAR TONG was born in New Hope, Nelson Co., Ky., in 1840. He lost his father when seven or eight years old, and was taken by his mother's father, Alexander Hamilton. After a few years he went to live with James Buckman, and moved to Union County. He remained there till 1878, when he came to Daviess County. He married Janey R. Snyder, a native of Washington County, Ky., born in 1852. They have seven children--O. C., C. C., Susan G., James O., Mary E., Joseph F., John A. Mr. Tong is a member of St. Martin's Catholic Church. He owns a farm of seventy-one acres, seven miles from Owensboro. Tong Hamilton Buckman Snyder = New_Hope-Nelson-KY Union Washington http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/tong.o.txt