This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McIntire/McIntyre/McIngtier/McEntire/McEntyre/Hyatt/Hiett/Hiatt Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FCC.2ACE/1899 Message Board Post: From an article written in 1902 by Isaac McIntire of Muskingum Co OH, g grandson of Robert McIntire of Brooke Co(1761-1837): "In the year 1782 John McIntire, Robert McIntire, Absalom Wells, Joseph Treasure and his son, Jeremiah, with some others, located farms and settled in Brooke County, Virginia. John McIntire's farm was 'tomahawked' for four hundred acres but it really consisted of 450 acres. . . . After the boundary had been fixed John McIntire sent to the government one cent for every acre embraced in his parcel and in return the government gave him a deed for the land. John McIntire sold the land later on to a man named Samuel Wilson because of his desire to move farther west. It was a beautiful farm and is really a historical landmark. On it were interred the remains of the first white person to be buried in that county. The body was that of a young white girl who, having gone to the spring for water, was attacked by Indians, killed and scalped. Her body was found at the base of a white oak tree and was buried where it was found. Since then a graveyard has been established there and is the known to this day as the White Girl graveyard. The tree is still standing but has been dead for several years. The members of the family of Robert McIntire, brother of John McIntire, peacefully sleep in this cemetery." I believe this cemetery is now known as the McIntire-Wilson cemetery and can be found on McCord road. Janet Currie