Family Tree

Hopefully, this can be read.  I haven't figured out how to post a PDF yet! If you click on the image above, it should give you the whole page.

Earl Howard McIntyre

        Born June 25, 1895, Earl Howard McIntyre was the third of five brothers, son of Ella Ann (Adams) and Amon McIntyre. Though both the Adams and McIntyre families had lived in Iowa for decades, in 1900, the McIntyre family, along with grandparents, John R. and Elmyra Fry McIntyre, moved to California.  On June 8th of that year, the Federal Census from Woodbine, Iowa listed Ella Ann and the boys with Earl's age as five years.  On June 19th, the entire family was in Santa Clara County, California and Earl was only four.

       According to the census, Amon was an "orchardist," which by definition meant that he was in charge of an orchard. In the 1890s, the French Prune had been introduced in the area of Gilroy township, California, and farming switched from grain and hay fields to rows of fruit trees.

Earl is on the left

 

        As of yet, I haven't discovered why the McIntyres left California, but by 1910, they were back in Iowa.  Some sources say that Grandmother Elmyra died in 1905 in  Kings County, California, yet her grave is near Woodbine, Iowa.  She could have been brought back to Iowa after her death.  I, frankly, don't know. Were they in Santa Clara County at the time of the San Francisco Great Earthquake? That would have been ample reason to return to the place where the "rolling hills" were the result of topography rather than seismic activity!

     Nevertheless, in 1910, the McIntyre Pharmacy stood on the main street in Moorhead, Iowa, and Amon, Ella Ann and their sons were members of the Woodbine, Iowa RLDS Church.







Sallie Sexton and James Waters Sources

I sent several sources to Mom today and thought that I might as well put these two here at the same time.

Beginnings

      James H. Waters and Sallie Sexton married Valentine's Day in 1900,  and in 1901, the couple had a son.  They named him Basil Egbert.  Nancy Belle was born on November 25th, 1902, though some sources date her birth year as 1903.  Gotta love the records from those years.  Basil was sometimes Baswell,  Sallie was sometimes Sarah, Waters was Watters,  and, of course, then we have Belle/Bell. 

     The family stories say that James was a circuit judge when "circuit" actually meant that he travelled to perform his tasks.  He was gone when Sallie went into early labor with their daughter.  She delivered the baby alone.  Soon after the birth, little Egbert fell into the creek so the new mother rescued him.  When Sallie's mother, Nancy V. Phillips, came to check, she found Sallie gravely ill.  James returned to find his young wife either dead or near death.  Sallie died December 3rd, 1902 (or '03).
     Letcher Sexton,  recalled in his oral history of the Sexton family that:

     "Dad’s sister, SALLY, born September 25, 1877, the sixth child in the CHRIS SEXTON family,  married February 14, 1900 to JAMES WATTERS. The had two children, BASWELL and NANCY WATTERS. And she died at Helenwood, Tennessee, December 9, 1923  Soon after, JAMES WATTERS left BASWELL and NANCY with Grandma and Aunt WINNIE and AMANDA, who never married, to raise these children. " (LETCHER SEXTON  was recorded by his sister EDRIE HUFF in January 1979 and his account was later transcribed and printed in the Scott County Historical Society Newsletter)       

      The account gave a few erroneous facts.  Scott County, Tennessee records Sallie's death as December 3rd and she definitely did not die in 1923 because then the "children" would have been 21 and 22!  However, he is right in one key piece of information:  James did bring the children to be raised by their grandmother and maiden aunts Winnie and Amanda Sexton.

November 9, 2011




Belle McIntyre is on the left,



    I was talking to my son the other day about the research I'd been doing on family history.  He suggested a blog. This is that blog. 

    The most logical place to begin is with the two members of the clan that we all have in common:  Nancy Bell Waters and Earl Howard McIntyre, my maternal grandparents. 

   There seem to be endless permutations of Bell's name.  In one list  she is Nancy, in another Belle, and in yet another, Bell.  Her last name is sometimes Waters, sometimes Watters, and even found sometimes as Walters.  While I know the last to be the result of someone misreading a handwritten record, the other spellings seem to have been used from time to time.  However, when I look at correspondence and documents such as her marriage license to Earl, the name is Bell.