Love Them Black Sheep Cousins!

At long last, I've found a distant cousin arrested for moonshine.

Well, he and his Stoneburner in-laws were found with "mash" after a raid. Does that count? 

Meet Samuel Perry McIntire: 

Published 14 Jan 1927, Friday, p.1, The Stillwater Gazette, Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma.  


Attention Willhelm cousins:  Perry was a 2x GGrandson of our James Andrew Wilhelm. (I'm a 4x ggrandchild). His mom was Nancy Ellen Wilhelm who married James W. McIntire in McDonough County, Illinois in 1874. They later moved to Kansas. Soon after Oklahoma became a state, many of their children slipped over the border, married and raised families. I suspect some are still nearby. 

This is their dad's obituary from 1925:



James was 73 when he passed. But only three years earlier he was mentioned in a Chautauqua County, Kansas paper. I am grateful to "TracyMart" on Ancestry who alerted me to this tattle of a a piece from Friday, 17 Feb 1922:

-- Page 5 of The County Liner & Cedar Vale Commercial paper in Cedar Vale, Chautauqua County, Kansas.

Isn't genealogy WILD!