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From: Pamela Booth <>
Subject: [IOWA] MCINTYRE/MCINTIRE, SHADDUCK/SHADDOCK
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 23:33:51 -0800


Hi, lists. I am trying to unravel a story my grandpa told me shortly
before he died. It is turning into at least 3 stories as I find more
info. He told a story of a baby girl whose mother died and whose
maternal grandparents took in the small children while dad was
resettling and then gave the boy back but not the little girl. He said
her name was Nora. The father was Mark M. SHADDUCK/SHADDOCK; the mother
who died, 2nd wife Ellen LONG.

What I have found, through census and other records is that Ellen LONG
Shadduck's baby girl was named Fannie E. (Actually Frances Evelyn and at
2yrs old she was living with her father and brothers in 1870 in Benton
County, Iowa. At first I though grandpa just didn't remember right, but
then I found the family with Nettie TOOLE SHADDUCK and more siblings but
no Fannie. Then I find the death date for the first wife Sarah Elizabeth
MCINTYRE/MCINTIRE 5 Nov 1856, age 20 yrs 3 months. There has never been
any mention of her having any children. Then her marriage date came to
light thanks to the kind and helpful Clinton County Genealogy Society
people and others who have answered my queries even when I wasn't sure
of what I was asking. Married 14 Feb 1856, 8 1/2 months before she died.
I wondered, 'did she die in childbirth?' but no one seemed to know. No
info on any child emerged.
Then I found Sarah Elizabeth MCINTYRE with her parents in 1850 in Elk
River Twp, Clinton County, Iowa.
Then this summer I came upon a distant cousin who was reading off the
backs of some old photos. Freda Shadduck, wife of Ira SHADDUCK; brother
of Lee, Grant and Curtis; taken is Vail Crawford County, Iowa. This Ira
I had never heard of until then, but I knew that the three brothers were
2nd wife Ellen LONG's children.
I poured over Clinton County censuses but no luck with 1860,1870 or 1880
censuses. Then while I was tracking down someone else, I found James
McIntyre with wife Mary, right ages, in the Springfield Twp, Erie
County, Pa; 1870 Census. There was a James Chaddock of the right age
living in the household and a Sarah McIntyre a year older supposedly. In
1880, Sarah the younger is listed as daughter and Ira Shaddock is out of
the Household, living in the same twp and working for a neighbor. The
trouble is, it is unlikely that they would have named another daughther
Sarah with first Sarah not only living, but still in the household.
I think that it is more likely that The younger Sarah McIntire is more
likely Sarah McIntire Shaddock/Shadduck and that she was either born out
of wedlockbefore the marriage or even more likely that she was actually
a twin of James Ira Shaddock/Shadduck and She is the girl my grandpa
said was talking about, although he didn't know that. I need to check a
number of state censuses out and see if I can find them.
Does anyone know of this family and if Sarah Elizabeth McIntire Shadduck
had twins before she died? There may not be an obit, but I was
wondering if Clinton County had one of those newsy community papers
that reported in short illnesses, visits and such in 1856?
I wonder it anyone knows of Sarah McIntire, abt 23 in 1880? Did she
marry?
Also There is a marriage listing for Elfriede Shaddock and & Wm H.
Malone Marriage Records, Crawford County, Iowa. Index 1, Page 157. A
cousin found that much info on a LDS film. Does anyone have access to
the complete record?
I do have the death record for Elizabeth Shaddock in Clinton County.
Pamela

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