John Alexander Winn was the son of Abner Winn and Lucretia Posey, who are buried in the Old Northport Cemetery in Northport, Alabama. On 11 February 1819 in Jackson Co., Georgia, he married Laodicea Ann ("Dicy"), daughter of James Horton and Elizabeth Carrington. In the early 1850s, John and his family (including daughter Elizabeth Ann Braselton, who had been widowed), moved to Tuscaloosa Co. from Jackson Co., Georgia.

John A. Winn's obituary in Obit. is in Tuscaloosa Times, Wed., 26 Aug. 1874 (3:5) reads: "Died: Wynn--In Tuscaloosa county, on the 3 inst., John A. Wynn, Esq., in the 79th year of his age." Note that the day of death here conflicts with that in the family bible as well as on the tombstone.

John A. Winn's obituary in the Methodist newspaper Southern Christian Advocate, 7 Oct. 1874, states, "Mr. John A. Winn was born in Abbeville district, S. C., December 24, 1795. In early life he moved with his parents to Jackson county, Ga., where he spent the greater part of his life. In 1853 he moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he died Aug. 10, 1874. Evan Nicholson." Rev. Evan Nicholson was John A. Winn's son-in-law, the husband of his daughter Martha Antoinette.

John A. and Dicy Horton Winn were the parents of the following children:

1. Elizabeth Ann Winn, b. 1 Dec. 1819, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 9 July 1877, New Lexington, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama (m. 16 Nov. 1844, Jackson Co., Georgia, to William H., son of Jacob Braselton and Mary Bryson)

2. Mary Caroline Winn, b. 23 Nov. 1821, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 24 Nov. 1883, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama (m. 14 Jan. 1841, Jackson Co., Georgia, to Mark Moore, son of Hosea Camp and Elizabeth Jordan)

3. Jesse Harrison Winn, b. 11 Sept. 1824, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 16 April 1889, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama

4. Louisa Melvina Winn, b. 27 July 1827, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 29 June 1834, Jackson Co., Georgia

5. Louvenia Catherine Winn, b. 30 June 1830, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 3 April 1896, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama (m. 2 Sept. 1856, Tuscaloosa Co., Georgia, to William T. Long)

6. Narcissa Jane Winn, b. 30 June 1830, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. ? (m. 2 Nov. 1851, Lumpkin Co., Georgia, to John C. Andoe)

7. Martha Antoinette Winn, b. 10 Dec. 1832, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 20 Jan. 1873, Pickens Co., Alabama (m. 21 Dec. 1857, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, to Evan, son of William Richardson Nicholson and Margaret Jane Adair)

8. James Carrington ("Carrigan") Winn, b. 21 Dec. 1835, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. ? (m. 16 Oct. 1867, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, to Leonora L. Winn)

9. Amanda Eveline Winn, b. 3 Nov. 1837, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 28 Feb. 1874, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama (m. 8 June 1873, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, to John Brown)

10. John Walker Glenn Winn, b. 1 March 1842, Jackson Co., Georgia, d. 18 March 1912, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama (m. 4 Jan. 1871, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama, to Frances Jerusha, daughter of James Ransom South and Elizabeth Finch)

Material about this Winn family appears in a four-part series of articles published by William D. Lindsey in Arkansas Family Historian 48 (1-4) 2010: "Brown or White Sugar: The Story of a Mixed- Race Plantation Family in Nineteenth-Century Arkansas"

http://www.agsgenealogy.org/databases/pdffiles/AFH/AFH481Mar2010.pdf

http://www.agsgenealogy.org/databases/pdffiles/AFH/AFH482Jun2010.pdf

http://www.agsgenealogy.org/databases/pdffiles/AFH/AFH483Sep2010.pdf

http://www.agsgenealogy.org/databases/pdffiles/AFH/AFH484Dec2010.pdf