*****This obituary was printed in the "Evening News" on November 26, 1901 Page 2 column 1 (This is an old newspaper in Bluffton, IN) *********
Mr. Winters Dies.
One of the Early Settlers of Wells County Removed by Death in His Eighty-Fourth Year.
At two o'clock this afternoon William Winters, one of Wells county's oldest residents passed away after an illness extending since January 12. On that day he had driven to Bluffton on his customary daily trip , and in walking across the street from the Bee Hive to Arnold's grain office, his two favorite visiting places, he was taken with a weakness of the legs and fell. Since then he has been at his home helpless in bed with a sort of paralysis affecting the lower portion of the body and has been under the constant care of a nurse and the family. He was bright mentally as ever to the end. For a week past he has been very low and sinking everyday.
Mr. Winters was born in Steubenville, Ohio, April 3, 1817. He removed to Wells county in 1841, Only a few years after John Studabaker, and lived on the farm of which Fairview cemetery is now a part. He then moved to Bluffton and conducted a grocery with B.F. Wiley. Since about 1865, however, he has made his home in the south lmits of the city. A more complete sketch will be published tomorrow. No funeral arrangements have yet been made by the family.
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Wm. R. Winters was the son of William Winters. Wm. R. Winters was one of his parents eight children & the last surviving sibling. Born near Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio.
His marriage to Sarah Evans took place on August 18, 1846. To this union were born 10 children. 4 of whom were still living when a 1900 Census was taken & at the time of Wm. R. Winters' death.
Mr. Winters Dies.
One of the Early Settlers of Wells County Removed by Death in His Eighty-Fourth Year.
At two o'clock this afternoon William Winters, one of Wells county's oldest residents passed away after an illness extending since January 12. On that day he had driven to Bluffton on his customary daily trip , and in walking across the street from the Bee Hive to Arnold's grain office, his two favorite visiting places, he was taken with a weakness of the legs and fell. Since then he has been at his home helpless in bed with a sort of paralysis affecting the lower portion of the body and has been under the constant care of a nurse and the family. He was bright mentally as ever to the end. For a week past he has been very low and sinking everyday.
Mr. Winters was born in Steubenville, Ohio, April 3, 1817. He removed to Wells county in 1841, Only a few years after John Studabaker, and lived on the farm of which Fairview cemetery is now a part. He then moved to Bluffton and conducted a grocery with B.F. Wiley. Since about 1865, however, he has made his home in the south lmits of the city. A more complete sketch will be published tomorrow. No funeral arrangements have yet been made by the family.
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Wm. R. Winters was the son of William Winters. Wm. R. Winters was one of his parents eight children & the last surviving sibling. Born near Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio.
His marriage to Sarah Evans took place on August 18, 1846. To this union were born 10 children. 4 of whom were still living when a 1900 Census was taken & at the time of Wm. R. Winters' death.
*****This obituary was printed in the "Evening News" on November 26, 1901 Page 2 column 1 (This is an old newspaper in Bluffton, IN) *********
Mr. Winters Dies.
One of the Early Settlers of Wells County Removed by Death in His Eighty-Fourth Year.
At two o'clock this afternoon William Winters, one of Wells county's oldest residents passed away after an illness extending since January 12. On that day he had driven to Bluffton on his customary daily trip , and in walking across the street from the Bee Hive to Arnold's grain office, his two favorite visiting places, he was taken with a weakness of the legs and fell. Since then he has been at his home helpless in bed with a sort of paralysis affecting the lower portion of the body and has been under the constant care of a nurse and the family. He was bright mentally as ever to the end. For a week past he has been very low and sinking everyday.
Mr. Winters was born in Steubenville, Ohio, April 3, 1817. He removed to Wells county in 1841, Only a few years after John Studabaker, and lived on the farm of which Fairview cemetery is now a part. He then moved to Bluffton and conducted a grocery with B.F. Wiley. Since about 1865, however, he has made his home in the south lmits of the city. A more complete sketch will be published tomorrow. No funeral arrangements have yet been made by the family.
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Wm. R. Winters was the son of William Winters. Wm. R. Winters was one of his parents eight children & the last surviving sibling. Born near Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio.
His marriage to Sarah Evans took place on August 18, 1846. To this union were born 10 children. 4 of whom were still living when a 1900 Census was taken & at the time of Wm. R. Winters' death.
Mr. Winters Dies.
One of the Early Settlers of Wells County Removed by Death in His Eighty-Fourth Year.
At two o'clock this afternoon William Winters, one of Wells county's oldest residents passed away after an illness extending since January 12. On that day he had driven to Bluffton on his customary daily trip , and in walking across the street from the Bee Hive to Arnold's grain office, his two favorite visiting places, he was taken with a weakness of the legs and fell. Since then he has been at his home helpless in bed with a sort of paralysis affecting the lower portion of the body and has been under the constant care of a nurse and the family. He was bright mentally as ever to the end. For a week past he has been very low and sinking everyday.
Mr. Winters was born in Steubenville, Ohio, April 3, 1817. He removed to Wells county in 1841, Only a few years after John Studabaker, and lived on the farm of which Fairview cemetery is now a part. He then moved to Bluffton and conducted a grocery with B.F. Wiley. Since about 1865, however, he has made his home in the south lmits of the city. A more complete sketch will be published tomorrow. No funeral arrangements have yet been made by the family.
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Wm. R. Winters was the son of William Winters. Wm. R. Winters was one of his parents eight children & the last surviving sibling. Born near Steubenville, Jefferson Co., Ohio.
His marriage to Sarah Evans took place on August 18, 1846. To this union were born 10 children. 4 of whom were still living when a 1900 Census was taken & at the time of Wm. R. Winters' death.
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