This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McIntyre/McIntire Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xkz.2ACEB/195.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I knew we were suposed to be related to some Wilson on the McIntyre side and they originally spelled it McIntire/McIntyre. I think this might be my greataunt-- one of my grandfather's sisters. And one of his sons form a previous marriage went to a place called Widener, Arkansas. his name was John also. My grandfather was John Wylie McIntire. He was born, I think in Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co. SC although I have seen records that said he may have been born in the late 1800s and died April 17,1934 in Ladonia, TX. He was buried in the Ladonia City Cemetery, Ladonia TX, Delta County, TX which was once a part of Fannin/Lamar/ Red River County, TX. The son who was in Widener, Ark. might have been the one who lost the 160 acres in Red River County during the 1930's Depression. John McIntire's first wife was named Margaret. I think he married her in Spartanburg Co. SC but we hit a dead end trying to find her. Maybe she came from AK too in the Widener area. Her last name was Finley/Fenley/Findlet/Fendley. I hate these spelling variations in her name. I believe she could have come from AK. I don't know anything about John Wylie's siblings. I know that he claimed to be "Black Irish" but more research of the SC area form where he is repurted to have been born and raised shows me that he was more Cherokee Indian and possibly some Black. He was also reputed to be a member of the KKK and a Catholic. Mutually exclusive, I would think so I don't know which relative to believe. Are your McIntires/McIntyres Catholics? He was either Baptist or Catholic. There existed ONE photo of him and he just looked like an ordinary person. No particuliatly handsome. Someone back in the 1920s had hand colored the photo and that does tend to distort things.... My grandmother, Martha Rose Turner was his second wife. They had six children, one of whom was stillborn and buried in El Nethel Cemetery in an unmarked grave. They were living on the Williams Ranch in what is now Delta County, TX when they were first married. I am looking for all siblings and info about John W.'s first wife and their children. Out of respect to Margaret, my grandmother changed the spelling of the surname to McEntire. But it sounds like the sam e family. I am wondering why my mother never mentioned any of her father's siblings. She was born in 1929 and he died in 1934. Where was your Margaret born? And did she and her husband ever own an auto dealership or had an association with one? It sounds like you could be related to me.