WINSELL, Andrew Thompson 1832 - 1902

WINSELL, COOMBS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 12/28/2010 at 15:47:48

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, February 5, 1902
Page 3, Column 5

OBITUARY.

Editors Ledger:--Andrew Thompson WINSELL was born in Madison county, Ind., Aug. 20th, 1832, and died at his home January 31st, aged sixty-nine years, five months and eleven days. He was a son of Adam and Sarah WINSELL. He came with his parents to Iowa in 1837, and had lived at the present homestead a little over sixty-four years, except the time he served in the Rebellion, in Company H, Thirtieth Iowa infantry. He was a member of the G. A. R. Post at Libertyville. Mr. WINSELL leaves to mourn his death a loving wife [note: she was Mary COOMBS], four sons and two daughters, also two brothers. He was a loving husband, a kind father and a member of the Protestant Methodist church for neary (sic) twenty-five years, but not at the time of his death. He died trusting in Jesus and said all was well between him and his God.

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Note: The G. A. R. is the Grand Army of the Republic, the fore-runner of the American Legion. Andrew and wife Mary who died in 1921 are buried in Winsell Cemetery.