Jackson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Wynns, Benjamin, Capt.  August 6, 1860
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The Standard of Raleigh, N. C. Aug. 8, 1860
The Standard of Raleigh, N. C. Aug. 8, 1860
Departed this life, near Marianna, Fla., on Friday afternoon, the 6th inst., 
CAPT. BENJAMIN WYNNS, in the 71st year of age. During his sickness, which 
lasted for several months, he suffered much, yet with the patience and humble 
submission of the true Christian.
The deceased was born on the 18th day of March 1790, in the Island of Bermuda.
A short time after his birth his parents retured to North Carolina, their 
native state. At an early age, he became the Captain and owner of a vessel, 
which sailed for many years between the ports of the Bahama Islands and North 
Carolina. 
About twenty years hence he removed to this (Jackson) County, where he soon 
became a useful and prominent citizen. In the year 1846, while absent from the 
State, the people elected him, by a large majority to represent them in the 
lower branch of the Legislative Assembly, the duties of which he discharged, 
in a manner highly gratifying to his constituents. Honorable and upright in 
all his dealings, truth and justice marking his intercourse with his fellow-
men, and won him many friends. He was an upright citizen, an affable 
gentleman, and truly devoted husband and parent. His feelings were gentle and 
kind, but always manly and candid. His ambition was to do right, and his only 
fear was to do wrong. He had met the trials and fulfilled the duties of three 
score years and ten, with fortitude and faithfulness, and his tomb will be 
garlanded by the recollection of a chaaracter -- in its moral adornments pure 
and elevated -- of manners simple, modest and retiring, and of an interior 
nature, tender and affectionate as woman's.
A widow and three children are left to mourn the irreparable loss of an 
affectionate and doting father. They should not mourn without hope, but be 
consoled by the reflections that he has gone to a better land.

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