Owen McIntee
Born May 4, 1777
Parish of Curran
Monaghan Co. Ireland
Died Dec 30, 1878
One Hundred Summers with their noiseless flow.
One Hundred Winters with their driving snow.
Now warped his form and furrowed deep his face.
And made sad entries in Lifes lonesome race
But bore faror virtues to his fame and faith
And wrote this record on the gates of death
There is a brief mention of Owen McIntee in the Past and Present of Washtenaw County (
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"Three brothers were the pioneers of Lyndon township. B.. Josiah H. and Harrison W. Collins arrived in the township in August, 1833, and proceeded to build the first log house, the frame of which was raised in November, 1833; but it was not until January 1, 1834, that S. B. Collins moved into it with his newly wedded wife, Parmelia Green. This settlement was made on what has since been called Collins Plains. During 1834-5 many settlers located in the township, including Abner Bruen, John Green, Henry G. Holmes, Michael Gilman, Samuel Boyce, Nathan Rose, Dr. John Cooper, Abraham Burgitt, John Twamley, Alfred Bruce, Jasper Moore, William Watts, John Coleman, David Coleman, Hugh Wade, James Stryker, William Wilcox and George Sellers. On January I, 1836, Josiah H. Collins settled in the township and as soon as the weather would permit set out the first orchard ever planted in Lyndon. Among the other settlers were Owen McIntee, Orman Clark, Horace Leek. Eli Rockwell. Jesse Rose, John Cassidy, Joseph Yocum, John and Ira Gifford, John Davidson, Joseph Webster, Stephen Dow, Patrick Haggerty, William Bott and Washington Beerman. Owen McIntee lived to be one hundred and four years old and died in 1880.