Biography of H C Winters, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 22 Jan 2009
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H. C. Winters is widely remembered as an old settler of Bedford Township. A
native of Alabama, he is the eldest son of Henry and Sarah (Rinfrow) Winters,
who came originally from North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. Henry
Winters went to Alabama in 1828, and settled in Morgan County, where he remained
for five years, going thence to Tippah County, Mississippi. He was twice
married, and by his first wife had two boys, one of whom is living: Aaron (now
living in Pope County, Ark. ). Mr. Winters was married to the mother of our
subject in 1828. They were the parents of six children, all of whom are still
living: H. C., J. J., Thomas, William C., Mary E. (now Mrs. Harbinger), and
Sarah J. (Mrs. Vandover), all living in Texas excepting the first named. Mr.
Winters was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died in 1852. Mrs. Winters was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died in 1880. H. C. Winters was
born in Morgan County, Alabama, in 1829, and was reared on a farm in Tippah
County, Miss., remaining at home until twenty six years of age, when he came to
St. Francis County, Ark., and was overseer for some five years on a plantation.
In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate service, Fourth Arkansas Infantry, and
served in the Trans-Mississippi Dept., being wounded at the battle of Jenkins
Ferry, and having the thumb shot from his left hand. After the war, Mr. Winters
returned home and engaged in farming on his land, which he had bought in 1859,
consisting of 160 acres. In 1880, he purchased the interests of the heirs of his
father in law to his farm on which he now lives. It is a fine place, consisting
of 240 acres of land, of which some sixty acres are under cultivation, and he
also owns 600 acres besides, with forty acres improved. Mr. Winters had been
twice married; first, to Miss Mary E. Meek, in 1866, who died in 1886, after
having reared eight children, five of these are still living: H. L., R. M., W.
T., J. E., and G. M. In December 1886, Mr. Winters was married to Mrs. Ada
Edwards (nee McKey). She is a consistent member of the Baptist Church, his first
wife being a member of the Christian Church as he himself is. Mr. Winters
belongs to the A. F. & A. M., and is a charter member of Levesque Lodge No. 227;
he is also a member of the I. O. O. F. 

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