Southampton County-Lynchburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Winston, William H.H., 1934 

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WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON WINSTON

W.H.H. WINSTON, AN HONORED CONFEDERATE VETERAN, PASSES AT 94

   W.H.H. Winston died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alfred R. White, of 
the community early Wednesday morning in his 94th year.  Mr. Winston, a member 
of an old and prominent Virginia Family, was the son of the late Pleasant and 
Mrs. Elizabeth Clark Winston, and was born in Indiana in July 1840, where his 
parent had moved many years before the War Between the States.  As a ten year 
old boy, he and his brother rode horseback from Indiana back to Virginia and 
Mr. Winston had spent practically all of his life near Lynchburg, until he 
came a few years ago after the death of his wife, who was Miss Nancy Powell 
Moorman of Campbell County, to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. White, 
here.

   William Henry Harrison Winston had lived a long, interesting and useful 
life.  At the outbreak of the War Between the States, he became a member of 
the Home Guard of Lynchburg, and in a short whole joined Company "G," 11th 
Virginia Regiment, Kemper’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division, Longstreet’s Corps. 
He participated in all of the major engagements of the Army of North Virginia, 
and was in Pickett’s immortal charge at Gettysburg where he was taken prisoner 
by the Federal and remained in Northern prisons at Fort Delaware and Point 
Lookout until February, 1865, when he was exchanged and immediately rejoined 
the Confederate Army.  Being with General Lee at Appomattox, he refused to 
surrender and with a group of comrades started on foot to join General Joseph 
E. Johnston in North Carolina but before they reached that command, Johnston 
had surrendered to Sherman near Durham, N.C., April 26, 1865.

   Mr. Winston maintained a remarkable vitality and interest in affairs until 
just a short while before his death.  Always present at the dinners given here 
by Agnes Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, on June 3 of each 
year, he never failed to proclaim himself an "Unreconstructed Rebel," and say 
that he was "ready to fight again."  He was active, well-in-formed, and an 
unusually interesting personage, a unique type of the Virginia gentleman of 
his day and generation.

   The body was forwarded to Lynchburg yesterday for burial in Spring Hill 
Cemetery Thursday afternoon, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Alfred R. 
White, and granddaughter, Mrs. Howard Melvin; by Mr. and Mrs. Exum N. White, 
Mrs. Isaac C. White and Mrs. Thos. N. White.  He possessed a large and 
prominent family connection, being related to Misses Fanny and Minnie Pretlow 
and Mrs. Thos. N. White; was a great-uncle of Mrs. Isaac C. White and of Mrs. 
Exum N. White, and an uncle of the late John C. Winston, of the well-known 
publishing house of that name in Philadelphia.


[William Henry Harrison WINSTON, of near Lynchburg, "Unreconstructed Rebel," 
 b. Jul 1840, IN, d. 14 Mar 1934, at daughter's home, Franklin, 
 interred in Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, 15 Mar 1934, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 16, 1934] 

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