Son of Isaac Winey and Mary Watts; Husband of Jennie Bird.

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R.M.J. Winey, 83, Dies at Home in De Witt, Ia.
DeWitt, Ia., Jan. 30 – R.M. J. Winey, age 83 years and six months, died at 10 a.m. Sunday at his home here after a ten years’ illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon from the home. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery. Mr. Winey is survived by his wife and eight sons and daughters. (Quad-City Times, Davenport, IA, January 30, 1922)

Aged Dewitt Man is Dead
De Witt, Ia., Jan. 30 – R.M. J. Winey, 84 years old, died at 10 a.m. Sunday after two years’ illness. He leaves his widow and eight sons. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon with burial in Elmwood cemetery. (Daily Times, Davenport, IA, January 30, 1922)

Richard Martin Johnson Winey
-The subject of this biography is a thorough farmer whose home is situated on Section 8, Waterford Twp., Clinton County, Iowa. He went to Kansas in 1880 with the intentions of locating and bought a residence at Newton, Harvey Co., Kansas, where he lived three years. Richard M.J. Winey was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. His father, Isaac Winey was born in Union Co., Pa., and the grandfather Jacob Winey was also a native of that state and of German parentage. He was by occupation a farmer and died in Union County in his native state.
-His father Isaac Winey was reared on a farm and, while a young man, learned the trade of a stonecutter. He located in Juniata County and followed his trade until the Pennsylvania Railroad was built. He took contracts on that road while it was in the process of construction and built brides and arched culverts on the road from Harrisburg to Pittsburg. His family, in the meantime, lived in Terry, Huntington an Cambria counties. In 1852, Isaac migrated west to seek a home, accompanied by his family. They went overland to Pittsburg, thence via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Davenport, where they spent the winter. In he spring following, he removed to Allen’s Grove, where he bought and improved a farm, and from that time up to the date of his death, pursued farming as a vocation. He died July 1, 1878. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Ann Watts and she was born in Juniata County, Pa. She now lives in Crawford County, Iowa. A family of 13 children as born to Mr. and Mrs. Winey, Sr., ten of whom survive.
-Our subject was the fourth child in order of birth and the third son of his father’s family. He attended school in Pennsylvania, later working with his father carrying drills from the quarry, or stoneyard to the blacksmith shop. He was 15 years old at the time of coming to Iowa with his parents, attended the public schools and assisted his father on the farm. He had one term allowed him at Fulton College and made his home with his parents until 1867, when he came to Clinton County and bought the north half of Section 20, Waterford Township. It was wild land but he placed it all under cultivation, and it is now considered one of the best in the township. He has placed it in good condition.
-The place which he now occupies he bought in 1873. It contains 160 acres, so that he is the possessor in all of 480 acres of land, part of which he rents. He also engages in the breeding and raising of graded stock.
-He was married October 24, 1871, to Jennie Bird [Burd] of Mercer County, Pa. [Per civil war pension documents for Jennie’s father, Samuel Burd, Jennie was born in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot, OH] Their children are as follows: Isaac, Della, Samuel, Lavinia, Nettie, Alice and Lester. In politics, Mr. Winey is a Democrat. He is a man well-informed in the matter of education and is well suited to public trust in that he possessed ability in that direction.
(Clinton County History, page 552)