This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whinnery, Randolph, Lyness, Pratt Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1354 Message Board Post: Eldon D. Whinnery, an active young farmer in the town of Dunn, was born on his present farm on May 1, 1898, son of Charles N. and Elizabeth (Lyness) Whinnery. He is a grandson of George and Mary (Pratt) Whinnery, who were pioneers of this county. He acquired his education in the district school and in the school in Downsville, and subsequently until the year 1917 assisted his father to operate the home farm. Then going to western Canada he secured employment in the service of the Canadian government running an engine in the construction of government roads. In 1921 he returned home to Dunn County, and rented his father's farm, consisting of 200 acres in Sections 25 and 26, town of Dunn, and here he has since been engaged in dairy farming, keeping about 40 head of Holstein cattle, of which a part are pure blood and a part grade. He has a pure bred sire and is gradually improving his stock, and is conducting all his farm operations according to modern methods. Mr. Whinnery was married July 17, 1917 to Faye Randolph, of Hersey, Wis., who was born July 31, 1896. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and are young people well thought of in the community and with a wide circle of friends. Extracted from The History of Dunn County (1925), p. 948. I have no further information about this family.