This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McIntire, Stuhlman, hanmann, Gabbert, Maddox, Houk Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xkz.2ACEB/331 Message Board Post: Mcintire, James W. farming in Sangamon County has always been profitable, but never more so than now, when there are so many appliances to assist the agriculturist in his work. James W. McIntire, on Section 5, cooper twonship,was born in Mechaniscburg, aprit 6, 1856, a son fo sanford and Theodora D. (Maddox) McInitre, the former born in Scott county, Ky, in 1832, and latter in Owen County, Ky,. May 4, 1834. The parents came to Illinois in 1847, sttling in Mechanicsburg, where they lived until 1865, when they moved to farm where James W. McInitre now lives. There the father died July 25, 1888, but his widow survives, making her home in Kansas. The father bought a soldier's claim on the present site of the city of Blooington. Mr. McIntire early commenced working in a brick yard for his father, thus continuing until he as twenty-two years of age. He the started farming, and has continued in the line ever since. He owns a portion of the old homestead, comprising nineteen acres of land, and has lived on it nearly a quarter of a century. On November 20, 1883, Mr. McIntire was married in Springfield to Mary Hanmann, born december 15, 1864, daugther of Chris and Louise (Stuhlman) Hanmann. The parents came to America from Germany, in 1859, and spent two years in Springfield after which they went to Clear Lake Township, settling on a farm. which continued the family home until the death of the father, April 21, 1908. The mother passed away thirty-four years a go. Mrs. McIntire ahs a sister living six miles east of springfield, but her brother F.W. in deceased. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cmintire : Christian H., of Buffalo; Anna F., wife os Forest Gabbert, living in Mechanicsburg' Clara Inez. This was from the 1912 Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Sangamon County Volume II- Biograhical James W. McIntire was the brother of my great grandmother Luella Allen McIntire Houk. I am looking for information concerning Sanford and Theodoisa (Maddox) McIntire They were married 11/16/1854 in Sangamon County Ill(marriage state index Ill) found of the census 1860,1870,1880 in Sangamon County Theodoisa Ann Americus Maddox died in Allen county Ks in 1918. Moved to Moran Ks in 1911 with daughter Luella and Benjamin Houk Theodoisa and Sanford had 7 children: James William John H Thomas Joseph Charles Elizabeth Luella Allen a