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From: "Carolyn Markie" <>
Subject: [WINN] John Farmer Winn,M.D.
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:07:20 -0600


The passages below are taken from: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography,Vol.4,published by Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1915.

John Farmer Winn, M.D. - The Winn family, represented in the present generation by Dr. Joh Farmer Winn, a successful medical practitioner of Richmond, Virginia is of Welsh origin, and the excellent characteristics of that race have been transmitted in large degree to the descentants, who have been active and prominent in the different vocations in which they engaged.

The ancestry is traced to various families of prominence and renown, the Cole family bearing a coat-of -arms. One line is traced to Adam Cary, who married Amy, daughter of Sir William Trewett. His son, Sir John Carye,was chief baron of the exchequer in the time of Henry IV. His son, William Cary, born 1500, was lord mayor of Bristol. His son, Richard Cary, born 1525, married Anne------. His son, Colonel Miles Cary, married Ann Taylor. His daughter, Anne, married William Bassett, son of Captain William and Bridget (Cary) Bassett; Joanna (Burwell) Bassett was the daughter of Hon. Lewis and Abigail ( Smith) Burwell, grandaughter of Major Lewis and Lucy (Higginson) Burwell, great-grandaughter of Edward Burwell and William Bedell, the latter named being a descendant of John Bedell, born 1485. Elizabeth Bassett, daughter of William and Elizabeth ( Churchill) Bassett, married Benjamin Harrison and of this union was President William Henry Harrison. Abigail (Smith) Burwell was a daughter of Anthony and Martha (Bacon) Smith, the latter named a daughter of Hon. Nathaniel and Anne (Bassett) Bacon, grand-daughter of Rev. James Bacon , and great-granddaughter ofSsir James Bacon. The Burwell family is one of the ancient families of the counties of Bedford and Northampton, in England. Lewis Burwell served as president of the council of Virginia, and his daughter, Elizabeth, married William Nelson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Another line of ancestry is traced through Humphrie Cole. Through is son, William Cole. Through his son, Colonel William Cole, who married Martha Lear, daughter of Colonel John Lear. Through his son, William Cole who married Mary Roscow, the latter named a daughter of Colonel William and Joanna (Burwell) Bassett, above mentioned. William Roscow was a son of William and Mary (Wilson) Roscow, the latter named a daughter of Colonel John Wilson. Through his son, Captain James Cole, who married Mary Wills, and their daughter, Mary Cole, married George Barclsy, mentioned below. The Cole pedigree is quite prominent, and at one period of Virginia history the family, from which Mary Cole is descended was in control of the state.

(1) Major Thomas Winn, great-grandfather of Dr. John F. Winn, was bornin Hanover county, Virginia, December 27,1753. He served as private and corporal during the revolutionary war, enlisting September,27 1777, for a period of three years,becoming a member of the Ninth Virginia Regiment, under command of Colonel Gibson. He was a resident of Lowfield,Fluvanna county, Virginia, and held a commission as lieutenant, captain and major of militai under Governors Benjamin Harrison, Patrick Henry, Beverly Randolph, Henry Lee.

(2) Captain John Winn, grandfather of Dr. John F. Winn, was born April 25,1789,died September 18,1844. He served as ensign in the militia service at Camp Carter during the war of 1812, and later was commissioned captain of a company of rifelmen by Governor Wilson C. Nicholas. For many years he was a member of the house of delegates from Fluvanna county, Virginia, was sheriff of that county, and presiding justice whe Lafayette visited Virginia. Captain Winn was commander of the escort that went from Fluvanna to meet him. He married Lucy Barclay Wills, daughter of Dr. John and Lucy Martin (Barclay) Wills. Dr. Wills was a descendant of an English ancestry, and his wife of a Scothc-Irish ancestry. Mrs. Wills was a daughter of George and Mary (Cole) Barclay, and granddaughter of Patrick Barclay, a Scotch merchant, who married, in 1742, Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel John and Martha (Burwell) Martin, the former named a merchant of Dublin, Ireland.

(3) Dr. Phillip James Winn, father of Dr. John Winn, was born in July 1820,died June 19,1887. He was a graduate in medicine from the University of Virginia, and was actively engaged in practice of his profession at Winnsville, Fluvanna county, Virginia. He possessed a large amount of skill and ability, which he displayed in the performance of his chosen work, and he was noted for faithfulness in duty and love of truth and right. He was a member of the First Cadet Corps of the Virginia Military Institute. He married Sarah Elizabeth Rebecca Ballow, of Cumberland county, Virginia.

(4) Dr. John Farmer Winn was bornat Winnsville, Fluvanna county, Virginia, September 13, 1852. His early education was obtained under private teaching, after which he entered Fluvanna Institute, then conducted by James A. Mundy. ( at this point I am going to skip to the basic info about John-CWM)
He entered the University of Virginia in 1873 and graduated in 1875 with a degree of Doctor of Medicine.In 1893 located in Richmond, Virginia and has continued to practice there up until the present(1914). He was chosen professor of obstetrics and head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology of the Medical College of Virginia and served as corresponding secretary of the Medical Society of Virginia for 25 years. Dr. Winn married, September 2, 1897, Willie Rosalie Yeamans , of Hanover county, Virginia, great-granddaughter of Anne Lewis, daughter of Joseph Zachary Lewis, of Spottsylvania county, Virginia and a descendant of John Lewis, the "Honest Lawyer" of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Children: John Farmer Jr., Rosalie Lewis, dedeceased; William Warfield.

I know some of this may be hard to follow. The puncutation is from the book. Typo errors are entirely my own. Hhope this is helpful to some of you out there. Carolyn

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