BIOS: John WINTERS, native of Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, pg/ 338

John WINTERS.
John Winters, a veteran of the Civil war, who is now leading a retired life, 
enjoying to the full the consciousness of duties and obligations well and 
faithfully performed, is a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, born June 
25, 1840.  His parents were John and Margaret (Mull) Winters, natives of 
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and descendants of an honorable ancestry. 
John Winters obtained a common school education, and after completing his 
studies followed farming as a means of livelihood up to 1885, in which year he 
was elected sheriff of Somerset county, in which capacity he served three years.  
He then engaged in the hotel business, becoming the proprietor of the Commercial 
Hotel, at Somerset, which he conducted for two years.  The following three years 
he served as clerk in the hotel, but is now leading a retired life, residing 
with his son in the Hotel Vannear, at Somerset, Pennsylvania.  In September, 
1861, at the outbreak of the Civil war, when the country was in sore need of the 
services of her faithful sons, Mr. Winters enlisted in the army, becoming a 
member of Company C, Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers.  He served until General 
Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, a term of three years and nine 
months.  He was a prisoner three days and three nights, but was then taken to 
the Parole Camp at Annapolis, Maryland, and there discharged.
In 1861 Mr. Winters was united in marriage to Jane Bowman, who bore him 
children: Johanna R. married James Blough; James L. married Susan Kimmell; 
Thomas G., Maggie, Jacob B. married Nora Sticer, and they are the parents of one 
child, Marie; Robert R. married Fanny Spangler; Grace married Ernest Kootz.