Please answer Steve to his email at scvoss@cox.net He is not on this mailing list. Eleanor Colson ******************** Hello,   My name is Steve Voss - a descendant of early day settlers of Grimes County.   I'm sincerely trying to locate/find the McIntire Cemetery in or near Grimes Prairie in Grimes County.  I find no listing of a "McIntire" or "Grimes Prairie" Cemetery on your cemetery listings for Grimes County.   I believe the graves of my McIntire ancestors to be located on my GGG Grandmother Margaret McIntire's property - who first came to Grimes County circa 1823-25.  I have the picture of Margaret McIntire's Grimes Prairie home, built in 1825, which I found in the Library of Congress.  My GG Grandfather grew up there, and my Great Grandfather and Grandfather McIntire were born in that home.     I have a copy of a couple of letters indicating approximately where the McIntire Cemetery in Grimes County is/was located.   I just need help in getting precise directions to the grave sites of my McIntire ancestors.  Hopefully someone in Grimes County will know, or can find, where the cemetery is located.     According to one letter (unedited):   Quote ... ...These are snapshots that I made (seemingly) about October of 1980 of the tomb stones in the McIntire lot on Grimes Prairie.      They are poor ones, admittedly !      I took the following information by hand:                   In Memory of             Margaret  McIntire               d. July 15, 1861               Come unto me                    In Memory of              Robert McIntire                               Born              Oct. 22,  1812                            Died              April 26, 1895        Behold I come quickly.                                             Sarah,  wife             Robert  McIntire             d. Feb 15, 1894                Aged 72 yrs.                                  B.E. McIntire                d. July 27, 1874                  aged 29 years                                        Sincerely,                                      (signed) Lois Stoneham   ...   End Quote   The letter above was accompanied by two illegible photos of Margaret McIntire's grave marker and one each of  Robert McIntire's and B. E. McIntire's.  No photo of Sarah's.    According to another letter (unedited) I have - dated 21 Sep 1975 from Margaret and Leslie L. O'Connor to Lois Stoneham:   Quote    Dear Ms. Stoneham,           Your letter of 15 September 1975 was most welcome.  We,  the O'Connors, bought the .9 + (plus) acres adjacebt to the McIntyre Cemetery from the Bluebonnet Farms in order to preserve it, and with the idea of transfering it and a small amount of property around it suitable for a small picnic area, for the cost of the survey, to the Grimes County Historical Society or such a body as the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, whichever proved to be the most active and effect- ive.           We want to keep a portion of the land to maintain the con- tact and history for the children and grandchildren of ourselves and those of Ivan T. Collier ....   End Quote   The above letter is two pages long, and covers some of the McIntire history (with some inaccuracies according to other evidence I've gathered).   Do you know of anyone in Grimes County who may be able to give me precise directions to the McIntire graves located in, or near, Grimes Prairie ?   Any help would be deeply appreciated !   Respectfully,   Steve Voss San Angelo, Tx   scvoss@cox.net