Person:Catherine Sutherland (11)

The following quotation, taken from a letter written under the date of January 20, 1940 by Mary McIntyre McFadden, daughter of Hugh McIntyre, gives some information regarding the McIntyre family.

"The McIntyres lived in the northern part of Scotland in the Province of Inverness and the Southerlands lived there too. A sailing vessel was coming to the United States in 1812 and grandfather John McIntyre was to be one of the occupants. Likewise, Catherine Sutherland was to be one of the occupants. Now I do not know that they were sweethearts before entering the vessel, but they landed and became such, if they were not before sailing.

They landed near the Hudson Bay and married. Grandfather hired out to the Hudson Bay Company to kill buffalo for the hides, and here they raised their family. I have heard them tell how they saved the marrow from the buffalo bones and packed it, adding a little salt, in big earthen jars and it was their butter. I suppose they used oatmeal made into bread, but I do not know as to the bread.

The family consisted of a large family. I will try to enumerate them as I remember. Daniel, Catherine, Mary, Duncan, Belle, William, John and one named Hugh died in infancy. Then our father was born and he too was named Hugh. They had the notion to come to the States and got several two-wheeled carts, drawn by oxen and started. My father was one year old when they left and he would be 106 years old if he was alive. They landed in Jo Daviess County, Illinois where they lived, and several married there. Then most of the family, as far as I know, married and drifted to Jones County, Iowa and most lived their lifetime there."