John Milton Winn, 1847-1924
WINN, KRATZER
Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/6/2012 at 09:41:04
Mr. John Milton Winn died at his home in Terrill, Iowa, at nine-thirty Saturday evening, November 29, 1924. He was seventy-seven years and nine months of age at the time of his death.
John Milton Winn was born in Washington county, Indiana, to Warner Winn and Catherine Colglazier Winn in 1847 and had four sisters and four brothers also in the family. He lived in the state of Indiana until he was eighteen years of age, moving at that time with his family to Linn county, Iowa. In the year of 1870, he came with his relatives to Clay county, Iowa, and filed on a homestead claim three miles northeast of the present site of Spencer.
In 1872 he married Mary Jane Kratzer and to this union were born four girls and two boys, one son passing away at the age of two years. The Winn family remained on this homestead for twenty-five years, selling it at the end of that time, and buying a farm in Dickinson county, Iowa, where they lived for six years. They sold this farm in turn and moved to Spirit Lake, Iowa, making this their residence for the next eleven years. They moved to Terrill, Iowa, which was their present home up to the time of his death, five years ago.
John Milton Winn was a man of enterprise, courage and honest endeavor and one held dear by all who knew him.
A short service of prayer was held at twelve o'clock in the Winn home at Terrill, followed by funeral services conducted by Rev. W.F. Hurst of the First Church of Christ at the chapel of the Cobb Funeral Home at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Music was furnished by Mrs. C.G. Rankin, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Bascom and Mrs. Hjelm with Mrs. H. A. Sorensen at the piano, all of the Christian church. Burial was made in Riverside cemetery.
Source: Spencer News Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; December 4, 1924.
Interment in Riverside cemetery
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