This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clevenger, Criswell, Day, Elswick, Lee, Faires, Mead, McIntyre, Murphy, Pace, Rayburn, Rosson, Routh, Short, Yancy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xkz.2ACEB/307 Message Board Post: Seeking descendants of , or information about, any of the following Mississippi McIntires: 1860 Neshoba Co. Census: Page 16, Dwelling 101: McIntire Mary 41 F hk 640 4000 NC, can't read or write Flora J. 24 F instructress Ms Sarah Ann 22 F seamstress Ms Margaret C. 20 F hk Ms Catharine 17 F hk Ms Nancy 16 F school Ms, Attended school within year Jennet 13 F Ms, Attended school within year Page 10, Dwelling 68: Lee Evan 38 M farmer 275 Ala Nancy 37 F hk Ms N?elda 9 F Ms Martin D. 7 M Ms Martha 3 F Ms Jno. M. 1 M Ms The Nancy Lee in the Evan Lee household was born Nancy McIntire/ McIntyre. She turned up in Neshoba Co., MS, in 1830, age six, and lived there with an elderly uncle, Archibald McIntire/ McIntyre, and two other McIntires/ McIntyres, Malcolm and John. Nancy and her husband were living in the Mary McIntire/ McIntyre household ten years earlier, in 1850. On that census, the surname is spelled "McIntyre." Mary McIntire/ McIntyre is said to have been the widow of Malcolm McIntire/ McIntyre, the first sheriff of Neshoba Co. I think he was the Malcolm she grew up with, but have no proof. However, it’s not likely that she and her young husband would have been living with Mary McIntire/ McIntyre and family had Nancy not been some kind of kin to that lot of McIntyres. Nancy McIntire/ McIntyre was a native speaker of the Scots Gaelic, which may be the basis for some of her other descendants says she was born in Scotland. I’ve just learned that the Union Church Community of Jefferson Co., MS, was Gaelic-speaking, so Nancy McIntire/ McIntyre could’ve learned Gaelic as her mother tongue in MS. I’ve no proof of her birthplace, however. Best regards, PK Murphy in Toronto