William Tibbet Winn (1851-1919)

WINN, FOUNTAIN, SIMPSON

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Date: 12/28/2016 at 23:16:41

WILLIAM TIBBET WINN

William Tibbet Winn was born in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, on February 15, 1851. In 1869 he came to eastern Iowa, where on September 3, 1874, he was married to Miss Elizabeth L. Haines at her home in Independence, Iowa.

In 1882 the family moved to O'Brien County and lived on a farm west of Paullina for eight years. In 1888 they moved to town and ran the restaurant for three years, after which Mr. Winn worked in the round house, which was then running in Paullina, for eight years. For sixteen years he was precinct assessor.

The last two years of his life, he was not able to follow an active life, diabetes gradually sapping his strength until complications caused the end, which occured on Thursday, October 30th.

He was a members of the local Methodist Church, being received from the Philby church in 1888, upon his removal to Paullina.

He was a good man, esteemed by friends and loved by his family A sorrowing wife and four children are left to mourn his demise.
The children are. Mrs. E. T. Fountain. Cambridge, Minn.: Mrs. Geo. W. Simpson, Merrill, Iowa: Miss Maye Winn, Paullina, and Roy T Winn of Chicago.

The funeral was held at the family home on Sunday afternoon at two o'clock with Rev. Harold Lancaster, pastor of the Methodist Church, in charge. The local lodge of Odd Fellows, of which Mr. Winn was a member, attended in a body.

Paullina (Iowa) Times, Nov 6, 1919, p1