From the writings of Frank Dumm, a nephew of John Young Minteer:

"John Young Minteer was killed by a bolt of lightning in July 1901. He was helping his brother-in-law, John Shields, to stack oats. He was buried in the Buffalo U.P. Churchyard. His wife, Margaret Shields Minteer, lived to an advanced age of 96 years, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.W. Allison on July 17, 1932. She was buried beside her husband in the Buffalo Churchyard."
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In 1840 he lived with his father, siblings, a cousin or two, and possibly his Aunt Betty, who his father and grandparents were trying to keep away from Robert Galbraith. His mother had died the year before, and his father had not yet remarried, so the 30-40 year old woman living with them was either one of his father's sisters or his widowed sister-in-law, Nancy. They lived in the old young double log house.

In 1850 he lived with his father and step-mother, his cousins Elijah and James Calvin, his brothers and sister, and his half-sisters and half-brother. Their new house may have been done by then. If not, it would have been quite crowded in the old double log house. Not many years after the new house was built, half of the old one was taken apart and moved across the field to the west, where it was reassembled and made ready for him to live in when he got married, which he did to Margaret Shields in 1856.

In 1860 he and Margaret and their sons, James Shields and Curtis Foster Minteer, lived on the 70 or so acres that had been referred to as the Cooper Farm. It was most of the part of the original John Young farm which he had left to his daughter Isabella, who married Robert Cooper. His real property was valued at $2400 and his personal property at $774.

In 1870 he and Margaret and their four children lived in the same place. His real property was valued at $3300 and his personal property at $1550. In about 1875 he and his brother Joseph swapped farms, which made good sense since John Young had the bigger family.

In 1880 he and Margaret and their six children--James Shields got married and started his own family that year--lived back in the old family home on the old family farm. (I call it the old family home, but it was really the newer family home. They had been living in part of the old family home, although it had been moved, reassembled and modernized.)

In 1900 he and Margaret and their daughter Ella and son Walter were the only family living there. They also had a hired hand living there who probably seemed like family--Robert M Benton, whose brother William had married Young's niece Maggie Minteer. The Bentons were neighbors and no doubt most members of both families knew many from the other family quite well.
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