This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xkz.2ACEB/195.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: John Wylie McIntyre/McIntire was the name of my grandfather. It appears on his tombstone as McIntyre. He died in April 17, 1934 -- years before I was born. All I can remember is that he had a sister named Margaret.Since my mother was about 4 or 5 years old when he died, she can barely remember him at all.All she can remember is that he was supposed to have been born in or around Spartanburg, SC maybe in NC next to Spartanburg and that there were a LOT of McIntire/McIntyre relatives in AR. I know that I am definitely related to the John McIntyre/McIntire family in Widner, Ark. I posted on that locality message board with ancestry.com and rootsweb.com but I haven't got a reply from them yet. THat is where they lived in 1973 and I hope there is someone still alive from that family who can help me. There are other McIntire relatives in Lubbock, TX but I don't know if they are still alive either. I once got to see a very old portrait of him. He had American Indian features but my grandmother Turner's mother was American Indian ( Cherokee) and almost all of their children had blue eyes except for my Uncle Gerald ( my mother's older brother and the third child of John and Martha McIntire/McIntyre) who looks just like the late Mexican singer and movie star Javier Solis! But we don't have Mexicans in THAT branch of my family.He had dark hair and a large nose and very small,tight lips. He looked like a fighter. It was rumoured in our family that John McIntire/McIntyre was part Cherokee. He apparently drank a lot and had a very BAD temper. My mother recalled an incident when he beat some children with a buggy whip. There were five surviving children in all. a small boy was stillborn. This is all I can remember. I tried to talk to my Mom but unfortunately she has Alzheimer's and is totally not in contact anymore. My uncle who is the youngest child wonders why I am interested in " all those dead people" and thinks I am a fool, crazy or worse...