Joy Burkholder wrote: > > Someone might be interested in the following obit: > dated 1929 > " Lacking only six days of reaching his 96th birthday,Feburary > 9th,Squire John H. Winchester,the oldest man in Union county,died Friday > night at his home two miles east of town. > For a few years he had been living near Monroe,which was the > furthest point that he had ever lived from his birthplace near Wesley > Chapel on the farm now known as the Capt. Howie place,which was the home > of his father,Thomas Didymus Winchester. > Squire Winchester had reached such an age and was so well known that > his death causes a wide spread interest outside of his own family and > kindred.He had been helpless for 18 mo.,and it had been two and a half > years since he came to Monroe. Consciousness came and went during the > last months,but it was known by his family that he had his recollection > at times even up to two or three weeks ago. For twenty-five days prior > to his death he had eaten nothing. > Squire Winchester was a man of temperate habits,had little sickness > during his life,and never drank ardent spirits of any kind. He both > smoked and chewed up until ten years ago whne he one day threw down his > pipe and said he had quit tobacco. He never used it again.He was a > memeber of Wesley Chapel Methodist church for 72 years and for many > years superintendent of the Sunday School. He was taken in his Mother's > arms to Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting and never missed a meeting > afterwards except during the war and after he became to feeble to go. Of > his brothers and a sister,Mrs. Sudie Howie amd Mr. McCombs > Winchester,both over eighty,survive him. > He was married three times. his first wife was Miss Margaret Phifer > and had one chid,Dora,who married Mr. Sam Wolfe. his second wife was > Miss Addie Timmons of Anson co. whom he married prior to the Civil War. > Six sons and one daughter were born to this union,and of them the > following survive,J.C. Winchester,G.T. Winchester,hugh H. Winchester and > Miss Maggie Winchester." JOY