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From: "The Thill Group Inc." <>
Subject: Re: [WINN-L] Wynn's in McPherson County, Kansas
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:13:30 -0500


Dear John,

In response have you seen this? I don't know where it comes from but the
page is marked if someone has the actual book or document I would appreciate
it but follows your lines of the article you provided:
Pages 824-825
WYNN. John Wynn, said to be a native of New Jersey, was a pioneer settler of
Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county. He was of Welsh extraction.
Prior to May 18, 1818, he came to Northumberland county, and settled on the
farm now owned by his grandson, David S. Wynn. This tract was originally
taken up by warrant by John and Margaret Snyder. On May 18, 1818, John
"Win," as his name appears in the deed, purchased these eighty-two acres for
$659.69. Here he erected the first set of buildings, of logs. The log house
stood until about 1880, when it was razed by David S. Wynn. He and his wife
Elizabeth probably were Baptists, as all their children were of that faith.
Elizabeth Wynn was the first person buried in the Augusta Baptist church
cemetery. Her husband is buried at the Mountain Presbyterian Church. They
had these children: Samuel, Annias, John, Jr., Matthias (settled out West),
Byram (settled out West), and Sallie (married John Van Sant, who was a
merchant in Rockefeller township). In 1847 John Wynn, Sr., sold his farm to
his son Samuel D. On the deed conveying this land to the son the pioneer
wrote his name in plain English John "Wynn." Samuel D. Wynn, son of John,
was born in Lower Augusta township Jan. 24, 1795, and died on his farm April
27, 1878. His wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Shipman, died Feb. 3, 1890,
aged eighty-four years, five months, ten days, and they are buried at the
Augusta Baptist cemetery. They were Baptists, and members of that church,
of which he was a deacon many years. Earlier in life he was a millwright,
and followed his trade throughout eastern Pennsylvania. Later he farmed in
Lower Augusta on the homestead. He was a Democrat. The following were their
nine children: Reuben died at Sunbury, Pa.; Rachel married Edw. Trowbridge;
Jacob lives at Lykens, Pa.; Mary married John Townsend; Barbara married
Charles Sarvis; Emma married Samuel Snyder; David S. is mentioned below;
Sarah J. married Adam Wynn, a cousin; Susanna married John Orendorf. Annias
Wynn, son of John, was born in Lower Augusta township, where he also died.
His wife, Elizabeth (White), was born Oct. 27, 1809, and died Sept. 26,
1863. Both are buried in the Baptist cemetery. Elizabeth White was a
daughter of Robert White, an Englishman, who after being in America some
years returned to his native country, and there enlisted in the English
navy. Annias Wynn was a deacon of the Baptist church, of which he was a
member for sixty years. He was a farmer, and owned the tract now owned by
Samuel Still. He and his wife had twelve children, namely: Susanna; Sarah,
who married William Conrad; John G., who died Sept. 2, 1897, aged sixty-four
years, three months, nine days (his wife Lydia died Oct. 3, 1901, aged
fifty-five years, eight months, eighteen days); Lafayette; Oscar T., who
married Ellen Kritz; William, who married Annie Walker; Jane, Mrs. Reuben
Conrad; Luscius C., deceased, who married Annie Spotts; Annias, who served
in the regular army and who was never married; Silas H., who married Orilla
E. Shipman (died Nov. 30, 1883, aged twenty-six years, one month, fourteen
days) and (second) Maggie Obetz; and Mary and Samuel, both of whom died
young. John Wynn, Jr., son of John, was a farmer in Lower Augusta township.
He was born Feb. 10, 1797, and died Oct. 8, 1875. His wife, Betzy Snyder, is
buried in Kansas. They had children: Adam, Stephen, Chambers (his wife's
name was Mary; their daughter Lydia died Feb. 2, 1861, aged one year, eleven
months, fourteen days, and their daughter Amanda, born May 26, 1854, died
Jan. 20, 1858), Albert, Jemima, Martha J. (born March 27, 1850, died Feb. 7,
1872), Mary and Samantha. Lafayette Wynn, son of Annias, is a farmer in
Lower Augusta township, where he was born Aug. 28, 1835. During the Civil
war he was a soldier in Company I, 58th Pennsylvania Infantry, under Col.
J. Riter Jones, of Philadelphia, and he participated in many engagements and
was shot through the left shoulder. He took part in the Grand Review at
Washington, D. C., and was discharged Nov. 21, 1865. After the war he worked
six years in the lumber woods, and railroaded for twenty-two years. In 1892
he purchased his eighty-four-acre farm in Lower Augusta, on which he has
lived since 1903. Mr. Wynn was married three times. His first wife,
Elizabeth M. J. Lytle, died Aug. 31, 1868, the mother of three children,
George, Robert and Elmer. By his second marriage, to Maggie Haupt, he had
two children, Peter and Edward. His third marriage, in 1885, was to Mary C.
Smith, by whom he had one child, Arthur. David S. Wynn, son of Samuel D.,
was born May 17, 1844, near Fishers Ferry. When nineteen he began
railroading, which he followed six years. In 1870 he purchased the original
Wynn homestead where he has since lived and farmed. He is a Democrat, has
been supervisor, and school director, and has been an active member of the
Baptist Church, since 1899 serving as a deacon. Since 1900 he has been
Sunday school superintendent, and in 1909 he was elected president of the
Sunday School Association, which is an auxiliary of the County Sunday
School Association. On April 28, 1870, he married Henrietta, daughter of
William Randall, of Centre county, Pa. She died Feb. 13, 1887, aged
twenty-seven years, ten months, nine days, the mother of children as
follows:
Jasper, Frank, Molly, Rachel, Charles and Henrietta. Mr. Wynn's second
marriage, on May 4, 1888, was to Ellen, daughter of John and Sarah (Bowman)
Geiswhite, of Dauphin county, Pa. They have six children: Clayton, Alice,
Warren, Eva, Joseph and Catharine.

Sorry this is so long but may be of help to someone.. please forgive.

Becky (Wynn) Thill
TTG13's Genealogy Homepage
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Lagoon/9231
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Date: Sunday, July 25, 1999 9:51 PM
Subject: [WINN-L] Wynn's in McPherson County, Kansas

>This is in response to a query about John Wynn, b. about 1765, died in 1849
>in Lower Augusta township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, I am
sending
>the following that might be of interest to others as well. John Wynn is my
>ancestor as well. I descended through his son John. I will follow this
>with more e-mails with other information that I have gathered that might be
>of interest.
>
>The following is quoted from the book called Portrait and Biographical
>Records of Dickinson, Salinas, McPherson and Marion Counties, Kansas.,
>published by Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1893. This provides information
>indicating that John Wynn lived in New Jersey prior to moving to
>Pennsylvania. The John Wynn, born 10 Feb 1797, in this narrative is the
son
>of John Wynn and if he moved with his parents to Pennsylvania as a small
boy,
>they probably moved between 1797-1807, just an estimation on my part.
>
>John Wynn
>
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>
>Chambers S. Wynn
>The Federal Building in Marquette, McPherson County, is ably presided over
in
>its postal department by the gentleman whose name is given above. If
honors
>should be in proportion to years, that which our subject enjoys is very
>appropriate at the hands of the Government, for he is one of the oldest men
>of this locality. He was born in Northumberland County, Pa., July 17,
1827,
>and is a son of John Wynn, a native of New Jersey, who went to
Northumberland
>County with his parents when a small boy. There he grew to manhood and
>married Miss Elizabeth Snyder.
>Our subject's father was a farmer by occupation. He was a hard-working ,
>industrious man and passed away from this life in Northumberland County,
Pa.
>The widow came to McPherson County, where her decease took place. They had
a
>family of five sons and five daughters, and of this generous number our
>subject was the second in order of birth. He was reared in his native
county
>and there lived until coming to Kansas. As a young man, he engaged in
>contracting and building mills of all kinds and in setting up
mill-machinery.
> Part of the time he devoted to farming, but to no considerable extent.
>Mr. Wynn enlisted in the army on the 17th of September, 1864, joining
Company
>H, of the Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He served until the close of the war
>and was mustered out at Richmond, Va. In a skirmish on the James River,
>December 14, 1864, he was wounded, though not seriously.
>On leaving the army, our subject resumed the business in which he had
before
>engaged. This he carried on very successfully until 1879, and then
>discerning a superior opening in Kansas, he came hither, locating at once
in
>McPherson County. He took up a farm on section 36 of Marquette Township,
and
>ever since that time he has devoted himself to his farming operations. In
>1887, Mr. Wynn removed to the town of Marquette and was appointed
Postmaster.
>The original of this sketch has always taken a warm interest in educational
>matters. He is an intellectual and high-minded gentleman himself, who
>delights in developing that which is strong and good in youth. After
coming
>to Northumberland [sic] County, he was engaged in teaching for two years
and
>has been a member of the School Board for a number of years. In political
>matters, he votes with the Republicans and allows no occasion to pass to
>pronounce in an unmistakable way his views and to uphold the principles of
>his party.
>Mr. Wynn was married in Northumberland County, Pa., December 14, 1851. His
>bride was Miss Mary A. Hendershott, a daughter of John and Sarah (Snyder)
>Hendershott. Mrs. Wynn was born in the county where she was married
February
>8, 1830. Of the nine children that have been born of this marriage four
died
>in infancy. The five remaining ones are Loretta Florence, who is the wife
of
>E. V. Haas; Alfred, a farmer by occupation; Silas; Clara, who is the wife
of
>Isaac B. Shriner; and Sallie, who is the wife of B. F. Cooper. Mrs. Mary
A.
>Wynn died in Marquette in February, 1886. She was a faithful wife and
loving
>mother and her demise was not only a domestic calamity but a loss to the
>matronhood of the locality where she lived. October 7, 1892, Mr. Wynn was
>again married this union being with Mrs. Emily Benz. Mr. Wynn is a member
of
>Marquette Post No. 308, G. A. R., also a member of Anchor Lodge, I. O. O.
F,
>of Marquette.
>
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