Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Winslow, Nathan 1925
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Ionia Daily Sentinel Standard, 24 Apr 1925

N. Winslow, 79, G.A.R. Vet, Died Friday

Easton Man Served in Civil War and in Mexico; Funeral Sunday in Charge of Borden
Post, G.A.R.

Nathan Winslow, 79 a veteran of the Civil war, died at the home on Harriet
street at 5 o’clock Friday morning.  Though Mr. Winslow had been ill for a long
time his condition was not considered dangerous until Thursday evening, and his
death followed a few hours later.  Mr. Winslow was born in Easton township,
February 19, 1846.  His mother died when he was eight years of age and his only
sister died shortly afterwards.

When Nathan was 12 years of age his father moved on a farm in section 14.  The
land was unimproved and the father had to build a log house in the woods.  They
lived here until the Michigan reformatory was established here.  They then moved
to a farm in Berlin township, but sold out a few years later and returned to Ionia.

Mr. Winslow left home at the age of 14 years and worked as a farm hand for Simon
Welch for four years.

Mr. Winslow’s war record began when he was 18 years of age, February 23, 1864. 
He enlisted with Company D, Third Michigan Cavalry of Veteran Volunteers and
remained in the service until February 12, 1866.  Mr. Winslow was in New Orleans
when Lincoln was assassinated.  Later the regiment was sent to Mexico to help
dispose of Maxmilian.  He was in Texas from August 2, 1865 to February 15, 1866.
 He proved to be an efficient soldier and received his honorable discharge
February 12, 1866 at San Antonio, Tex.  He had an eventful voyage from Galveston
across the gulf to New Orleans, thence up the Mississippi to Cairo, Ill.

Following the war Mr. Winslow continued to work as a farm hand in Ionia county
until 1872.  At that time he took the money he had saved and purchased 40 acres
in Easton township of unimproved land which he cleared and put under cultivation
and later bought about 20 acres adjoining.

In 1873 he was united in marriage to Anna Hoover, who, though born in Oakland
county, had lived in Danby township since her childhood.  Mrs. Winslow died
April 6, 1888 when the two children were small.  On November 21, 1889 he married
Eva Simington, of Saranac.

Besides his widow Mr. Winslow is survived by two children, Herbert Winslow and
Mrs. Charles Conner, of Ionia, two brothers, L.L. Winslow and Byron Winslow, of
Saranac, and four grandchildren, Mrs. Warren Bensted, Mrs. Royal Hawley, Mrs.
Sam Edwards, and Mrs. Irma Winslow, all of Ionia.

The funeral service will be held Sunday afternoon at the residence at 2:30 and
will be in charge of the William H. Borden Post, G.A.R. of which Mr. Winslow was
a member at the time of his death.  Burial will take place in the family lot at
the Easton cemetery.


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