Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Winsor, Thomas 1816 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com February 25, 2006, 9:13 pm

Author: History of Grundy County 1882

Thomas Winsor, farmer, P. O. Morris. The subject of this sketch is a native of 
Devonshire, Ipplepen, near Torquay, England, born April 21, 1816; son of James 
and Elizabeth Winsor. Subject is the seventh of a family of eleven children; 
raised and educated in his native country. Married, February 12, 1843, in 
England, to Miss Martha Thomas, daughter of William and Mary Thomas, born in 
Devonshire, near Torquay, July 15, 1819. They came to the United States in the 
sailing vessel "Agnes", landed at New York and came by canal and lakes to 
Joliet, settled in Kendall County for two years, and then removed to Grundy 
County in 1850 and located in Saratoga Township, where he bought land and 
lived until 1864, when he removed to Norman Township, where he now lives. Here 
he owns a farm of 160 acres in Section 24, residence five and a half miles 
southwest from Morris. They have a family of eleven children, two of whom are 
dead, one son dying in England, and one daughter in Grundy County. Mr. Winsor 
is a Republican, and has served Norman Township as Justice of the Peace for 
eleven consecutive years.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/winsor4gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/

File size: 1.8 Kb