THERON W. WINTERS and his wife, Caroline, had lived in Wisconsin prior to 1864 when they and three other families departed for the West. This colony settled on unbroken prairie land in southeastern Shelby County. As the settlement grew, a post office was established in the Winter's home in the late 1860's and Mrs. Winters named the village "Elk Horn"; Mr. Winters carried the mail from Atlantic to Harland on horseback. The first cemetery was on land donated to the community by Mr. Winters. After twelve years at Elk Horn, the Winters family operated a bakery in Atlantic for three years. They then removed to Marne, where Mrs. Winters was a founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church which stood for many years on the northeast corner of Washington and Taft Streets on the South Hill in Marne. T. W. Winters operated a wagon shop here in Marne for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Winters moved to Atlantic about the year 1917. They both passed away in Atlantic in 1920. Theron W. Winters was 82 at the time of his death and Caroline Winters was 18. They had a son, Will, who retired as a carpenter for the Rock Island Railroad and lived in Marne for many years. Their daughter, Ora Elmira Morrison, was married to a blacksmith here in Marne; the shop was in South Marne opposite the present site of the Co-op station.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pg. 44. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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