Serril Winchester's life from the public record:
From “John Winchester of New England and Some of his Descendants" by Henry Winchester Cunningham: " His father [John Winchester] moved to Jefferson Co., Ind. in 1816, and Serrill Winchester moved to Johnson Co., Ind., in 1827, where he was a pioneer settler and therefore probably a farmer”
From “Making a Neighborhood” by D.D. Banta: “In 1833, the sixth year after the first settlement [Shiloh, Franklin, Indiana], witnessed the advent of three new neighbors, SERRILL WINCHESTER, DANIEL NEWKIRK and PETER D. BANTA...SERRILL WINCHESTER came in February, from the Nineveh settlement where he had been living a short time. A yoke of oxen and one horse constituted the team that hauled his household stuff to the unfinished cabin in which the family found shelter in the beginning. The mother rode Lark, the horse, and carried HARVEY, the year old baby, in her arms. NANCY and JANE and WILLIAM found seats in the wagon. That February day was a cold and gloomy one, and in lieu of cloaks each of the girls wore one of "father's coats." Tradition has lost sight of JOHN'S whereabouts on that dismal day, but as 'Old Lil', the cow, constituted a part of the cavalcade, it stands to reason that armed with a good stick he kept in the rear with an eye single to the behavior of that cow. Let us enter with the family and take an inside view of their new home. The half of the floor next to the fireplace is of puncheons and the other half of native earth. MR. WINCHESTER. has not had time to split and hew the puncheons necessary to cover that other half, but it will be done in good time I'll warrant you. There are two doors to the cabin -- or rather two openings for the doors -- one on the east side and one on the west, but it has been about all MR. WINCHESTER could do to raise and roof his new house, and put in half a floor, and a clapboard loft, and cut out places for the two doors, so he hurriedly nails boards over the west door while his wife hangs up a quilt over the east one. The windows are not yet cut out but when that is done they will be covered with oiled paper. On the clapboard loft overhead, the corn that is to make the bread for the family and furnish an ear now and then for old Lark is stored, and above that, the bacon is hung. There is not much in that new cabin to cheer the hearts of its owners except the children and faith in the future. Ah, this is the day of little things -- when the making and hanging of a cabin door even, brought great joy to an entire family! The forest grew a solid phalanx of trees up to the very door of that cabin, and when the log barn was erected some forty yards distant, it could not be seen from the house. How proud the children were when an avenue was cut through the trees and they could see the barn. The WINCHESTERS have an English pedigree. The first of the family to set foot on our Western World, was JOHN WINCHESTER, who, at the age of nineteen embarking in the ship Elizabeth, of London, in 1625, landed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and settled at Hingham. In 1650 he moved to Muddy Run, now Brookline in the same Province. One of his grandsons, ANDREW, emigrated to New London, in Connecticut, about the close of the first third of the eighteenth century, where he married and established his branch of the family. About 1795 his grandson, JOHN WINCHESTER, the father of SERRILL, moved to the then new state of Kentucky, and settled in Hardin county, where SERRILL, the oldest of the nineteen children, was born in 1804. The year Indiana was admitted in the Union, young SERRILL came with his father to Jefferson county,in this State [Indiana], and settled not far from the Jennings county line. December 9th, 1835, he was married to MARY ANN MILLER [his stepmother's sister], who was a sister of the WILLIAM and WASHINGTON MILLER, who subsequently moved to this neighborhood. The ancestor of the MILLERS came from Ireland to North Carolina in 1767, and in 1816 JOHN MILLER, his son and the father of our Shiloh MILLERS moved to Kentucky, and thence at the end of a year to Jennings county, in this state [Indiana].”
The 1830 US Federal Census for Hensley, Johnson, Indiana show that Serril had in his household two males under 5 years (John and William), one male between 20 and 30 (himself), two females under 5 years old (Nancy and Jane) and one female between 15 and 20 (who is probably his wife, I think the check has been made in the wrong column as she is between 20 and 30, the record is on the bottom of the page and misallignments do happen.).
The 1840 US Federal Census for Unknown Township, Johnson County, Indiana shows that Serril had in his household one male under 5 years old (Washington), three males between 5 and 10 (William, Harvey and Jordan), one male between 15 and 20 (John) , one male between 30 and 40 (himself), one female under 5 years old (Melissa), one female between 5 and 10 ( Minerva), two females between 10 and 15 (Jane and Nancy) and one female between 30 and 40 (his wife Mary Ann).
The 1850 US Federal Census for Union, Johnson County, Indiana, taken on 1 June 1850, shows that Serril Winchester was born in Kentucky, is 46 years old, and a farmer worth $1800. In his household are his wife Mary Ann [Miller] (born in North Carolina, age 47), his son John M (born in Indiana, age 24 and a farmer worth $400), his daughter Jane S. (born in Indiana, age 21), his son Hervey C (born in Indiana, age 18, farmer-no net worth), his daughter Minerva (born in Indiana, age 16), his son Jordan M. (born in Indiana, age 15) and his daughter Melissa A [Malissa Ann] (born in Indiana, age 13)
Serril died of typhoid fever on 1 Oct 1854 and was buried in Old Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery, Row 8, Stone 5.
From “John Winchester of New England and Some of his Descendants" by Henry Winchester Cunningham: " His father [John Winchester] moved to Jefferson Co., Ind. in 1816, and Serrill Winchester moved to Johnson Co., Ind., in 1827, where he was a pioneer settler and therefore probably a farmer”
From “Making a Neighborhood” by D.D. Banta: “In 1833, the sixth year after the first settlement [Shiloh, Franklin, Indiana], witnessed the advent of three new neighbors, SERRILL WINCHESTER, DANIEL NEWKIRK and PETER D. BANTA...SERRILL WINCHESTER came in February, from the Nineveh settlement where he had been living a short time. A yoke of oxen and one horse constituted the team that hauled his household stuff to the unfinished cabin in which the family found shelter in the beginning. The mother rode Lark, the horse, and carried HARVEY, the year old baby, in her arms. NANCY and JANE and WILLIAM found seats in the wagon. That February day was a cold and gloomy one, and in lieu of cloaks each of the girls wore one of "father's coats." Tradition has lost sight of JOHN'S whereabouts on that dismal day, but as 'Old Lil', the cow, constituted a part of the cavalcade, it stands to reason that armed with a good stick he kept in the rear with an eye single to the behavior of that cow. Let us enter with the family and take an inside view of their new home. The half of the floor next to the fireplace is of puncheons and the other half of native earth. MR. WINCHESTER. has not had time to split and hew the puncheons necessary to cover that other half, but it will be done in good time I'll warrant you. There are two doors to the cabin -- or rather two openings for the doors -- one on the east side and one on the west, but it has been about all MR. WINCHESTER could do to raise and roof his new house, and put in half a floor, and a clapboard loft, and cut out places for the two doors, so he hurriedly nails boards over the west door while his wife hangs up a quilt over the east one. The windows are not yet cut out but when that is done they will be covered with oiled paper. On the clapboard loft overhead, the corn that is to make the bread for the family and furnish an ear now and then for old Lark is stored, and above that, the bacon is hung. There is not much in that new cabin to cheer the hearts of its owners except the children and faith in the future. Ah, this is the day of little things -- when the making and hanging of a cabin door even, brought great joy to an entire family! The forest grew a solid phalanx of trees up to the very door of that cabin, and when the log barn was erected some forty yards distant, it could not be seen from the house. How proud the children were when an avenue was cut through the trees and they could see the barn. The WINCHESTERS have an English pedigree. The first of the family to set foot on our Western World, was JOHN WINCHESTER, who, at the age of nineteen embarking in the ship Elizabeth, of London, in 1625, landed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and settled at Hingham. In 1650 he moved to Muddy Run, now Brookline in the same Province. One of his grandsons, ANDREW, emigrated to New London, in Connecticut, about the close of the first third of the eighteenth century, where he married and established his branch of the family. About 1795 his grandson, JOHN WINCHESTER, the father of SERRILL, moved to the then new state of Kentucky, and settled in Hardin county, where SERRILL, the oldest of the nineteen children, was born in 1804. The year Indiana was admitted in the Union, young SERRILL came with his father to Jefferson county,in this State [Indiana], and settled not far from the Jennings county line. December 9th, 1835, he was married to MARY ANN MILLER [his stepmother's sister], who was a sister of the WILLIAM and WASHINGTON MILLER, who subsequently moved to this neighborhood. The ancestor of the MILLERS came from Ireland to North Carolina in 1767, and in 1816 JOHN MILLER, his son and the father of our Shiloh MILLERS moved to Kentucky, and thence at the end of a year to Jennings county, in this state [Indiana].”
The 1830 US Federal Census for Hensley, Johnson, Indiana show that Serril had in his household two males under 5 years (John and William), one male between 20 and 30 (himself), two females under 5 years old (Nancy and Jane) and one female between 15 and 20 (who is probably his wife, I think the check has been made in the wrong column as she is between 20 and 30, the record is on the bottom of the page and misallignments do happen.).
The 1840 US Federal Census for Unknown Township, Johnson County, Indiana shows that Serril had in his household one male under 5 years old (Washington), three males between 5 and 10 (William, Harvey and Jordan), one male between 15 and 20 (John) , one male between 30 and 40 (himself), one female under 5 years old (Melissa), one female between 5 and 10 ( Minerva), two females between 10 and 15 (Jane and Nancy) and one female between 30 and 40 (his wife Mary Ann).
The 1850 US Federal Census for Union, Johnson County, Indiana, taken on 1 June 1850, shows that Serril Winchester was born in Kentucky, is 46 years old, and a farmer worth $1800. In his household are his wife Mary Ann [Miller] (born in North Carolina, age 47), his son John M (born in Indiana, age 24 and a farmer worth $400), his daughter Jane S. (born in Indiana, age 21), his son Hervey C (born in Indiana, age 18, farmer-no net worth), his daughter Minerva (born in Indiana, age 16), his son Jordan M. (born in Indiana, age 15) and his daughter Melissa A [Malissa Ann] (born in Indiana, age 13)
Serril died of typhoid fever on 1 Oct 1854 and was buried in Old Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery, Row 8, Stone 5.
Serril Winchester's life from the public record:
From “John Winchester of New England and Some of his Descendants" by Henry Winchester Cunningham: " His father [John Winchester] moved to Jefferson Co., Ind. in 1816, and Serrill Winchester moved to Johnson Co., Ind., in 1827, where he was a pioneer settler and therefore probably a farmer”
From “Making a Neighborhood” by D.D. Banta: “In 1833, the sixth year after the first settlement [Shiloh, Franklin, Indiana], witnessed the advent of three new neighbors, SERRILL WINCHESTER, DANIEL NEWKIRK and PETER D. BANTA...SERRILL WINCHESTER came in February, from the Nineveh settlement where he had been living a short time. A yoke of oxen and one horse constituted the team that hauled his household stuff to the unfinished cabin in which the family found shelter in the beginning. The mother rode Lark, the horse, and carried HARVEY, the year old baby, in her arms. NANCY and JANE and WILLIAM found seats in the wagon. That February day was a cold and gloomy one, and in lieu of cloaks each of the girls wore one of "father's coats." Tradition has lost sight of JOHN'S whereabouts on that dismal day, but as 'Old Lil', the cow, constituted a part of the cavalcade, it stands to reason that armed with a good stick he kept in the rear with an eye single to the behavior of that cow. Let us enter with the family and take an inside view of their new home. The half of the floor next to the fireplace is of puncheons and the other half of native earth. MR. WINCHESTER. has not had time to split and hew the puncheons necessary to cover that other half, but it will be done in good time I'll warrant you. There are two doors to the cabin -- or rather two openings for the doors -- one on the east side and one on the west, but it has been about all MR. WINCHESTER could do to raise and roof his new house, and put in half a floor, and a clapboard loft, and cut out places for the two doors, so he hurriedly nails boards over the west door while his wife hangs up a quilt over the east one. The windows are not yet cut out but when that is done they will be covered with oiled paper. On the clapboard loft overhead, the corn that is to make the bread for the family and furnish an ear now and then for old Lark is stored, and above that, the bacon is hung. There is not much in that new cabin to cheer the hearts of its owners except the children and faith in the future. Ah, this is the day of little things -- when the making and hanging of a cabin door even, brought great joy to an entire family! The forest grew a solid phalanx of trees up to the very door of that cabin, and when the log barn was erected some forty yards distant, it could not be seen from the house. How proud the children were when an avenue was cut through the trees and they could see the barn. The WINCHESTERS have an English pedigree. The first of the family to set foot on our Western World, was JOHN WINCHESTER, who, at the age of nineteen embarking in the ship Elizabeth, of London, in 1625, landed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and settled at Hingham. In 1650 he moved to Muddy Run, now Brookline in the same Province. One of his grandsons, ANDREW, emigrated to New London, in Connecticut, about the close of the first third of the eighteenth century, where he married and established his branch of the family. About 1795 his grandson, JOHN WINCHESTER, the father of SERRILL, moved to the then new state of Kentucky, and settled in Hardin county, where SERRILL, the oldest of the nineteen children, was born in 1804. The year Indiana was admitted in the Union, young SERRILL came with his father to Jefferson county,in this State [Indiana], and settled not far from the Jennings county line. December 9th, 1835, he was married to MARY ANN MILLER [his stepmother's sister], who was a sister of the WILLIAM and WASHINGTON MILLER, who subsequently moved to this neighborhood. The ancestor of the MILLERS came from Ireland to North Carolina in 1767, and in 1816 JOHN MILLER, his son and the father of our Shiloh MILLERS moved to Kentucky, and thence at the end of a year to Jennings county, in this state [Indiana].”
The 1830 US Federal Census for Hensley, Johnson, Indiana show that Serril had in his household two males under 5 years (John and William), one male between 20 and 30 (himself), two females under 5 years old (Nancy and Jane) and one female between 15 and 20 (who is probably his wife, I think the check has been made in the wrong column as she is between 20 and 30, the record is on the bottom of the page and misallignments do happen.).
The 1840 US Federal Census for Unknown Township, Johnson County, Indiana shows that Serril had in his household one male under 5 years old (Washington), three males between 5 and 10 (William, Harvey and Jordan), one male between 15 and 20 (John) , one male between 30 and 40 (himself), one female under 5 years old (Melissa), one female between 5 and 10 ( Minerva), two females between 10 and 15 (Jane and Nancy) and one female between 30 and 40 (his wife Mary Ann).
The 1850 US Federal Census for Union, Johnson County, Indiana, taken on 1 June 1850, shows that Serril Winchester was born in Kentucky, is 46 years old, and a farmer worth $1800. In his household are his wife Mary Ann [Miller] (born in North Carolina, age 47), his son John M (born in Indiana, age 24 and a farmer worth $400), his daughter Jane S. (born in Indiana, age 21), his son Hervey C (born in Indiana, age 18, farmer-no net worth), his daughter Minerva (born in Indiana, age 16), his son Jordan M. (born in Indiana, age 15) and his daughter Melissa A [Malissa Ann] (born in Indiana, age 13)
Serril died of typhoid fever on 1 Oct 1854 and was buried in Old Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery, Row 8, Stone 5.
From “John Winchester of New England and Some of his Descendants" by Henry Winchester Cunningham: " His father [John Winchester] moved to Jefferson Co., Ind. in 1816, and Serrill Winchester moved to Johnson Co., Ind., in 1827, where he was a pioneer settler and therefore probably a farmer”
From “Making a Neighborhood” by D.D. Banta: “In 1833, the sixth year after the first settlement [Shiloh, Franklin, Indiana], witnessed the advent of three new neighbors, SERRILL WINCHESTER, DANIEL NEWKIRK and PETER D. BANTA...SERRILL WINCHESTER came in February, from the Nineveh settlement where he had been living a short time. A yoke of oxen and one horse constituted the team that hauled his household stuff to the unfinished cabin in which the family found shelter in the beginning. The mother rode Lark, the horse, and carried HARVEY, the year old baby, in her arms. NANCY and JANE and WILLIAM found seats in the wagon. That February day was a cold and gloomy one, and in lieu of cloaks each of the girls wore one of "father's coats." Tradition has lost sight of JOHN'S whereabouts on that dismal day, but as 'Old Lil', the cow, constituted a part of the cavalcade, it stands to reason that armed with a good stick he kept in the rear with an eye single to the behavior of that cow. Let us enter with the family and take an inside view of their new home. The half of the floor next to the fireplace is of puncheons and the other half of native earth. MR. WINCHESTER. has not had time to split and hew the puncheons necessary to cover that other half, but it will be done in good time I'll warrant you. There are two doors to the cabin -- or rather two openings for the doors -- one on the east side and one on the west, but it has been about all MR. WINCHESTER could do to raise and roof his new house, and put in half a floor, and a clapboard loft, and cut out places for the two doors, so he hurriedly nails boards over the west door while his wife hangs up a quilt over the east one. The windows are not yet cut out but when that is done they will be covered with oiled paper. On the clapboard loft overhead, the corn that is to make the bread for the family and furnish an ear now and then for old Lark is stored, and above that, the bacon is hung. There is not much in that new cabin to cheer the hearts of its owners except the children and faith in the future. Ah, this is the day of little things -- when the making and hanging of a cabin door even, brought great joy to an entire family! The forest grew a solid phalanx of trees up to the very door of that cabin, and when the log barn was erected some forty yards distant, it could not be seen from the house. How proud the children were when an avenue was cut through the trees and they could see the barn. The WINCHESTERS have an English pedigree. The first of the family to set foot on our Western World, was JOHN WINCHESTER, who, at the age of nineteen embarking in the ship Elizabeth, of London, in 1625, landed in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and settled at Hingham. In 1650 he moved to Muddy Run, now Brookline in the same Province. One of his grandsons, ANDREW, emigrated to New London, in Connecticut, about the close of the first third of the eighteenth century, where he married and established his branch of the family. About 1795 his grandson, JOHN WINCHESTER, the father of SERRILL, moved to the then new state of Kentucky, and settled in Hardin county, where SERRILL, the oldest of the nineteen children, was born in 1804. The year Indiana was admitted in the Union, young SERRILL came with his father to Jefferson county,in this State [Indiana], and settled not far from the Jennings county line. December 9th, 1835, he was married to MARY ANN MILLER [his stepmother's sister], who was a sister of the WILLIAM and WASHINGTON MILLER, who subsequently moved to this neighborhood. The ancestor of the MILLERS came from Ireland to North Carolina in 1767, and in 1816 JOHN MILLER, his son and the father of our Shiloh MILLERS moved to Kentucky, and thence at the end of a year to Jennings county, in this state [Indiana].”
The 1830 US Federal Census for Hensley, Johnson, Indiana show that Serril had in his household two males under 5 years (John and William), one male between 20 and 30 (himself), two females under 5 years old (Nancy and Jane) and one female between 15 and 20 (who is probably his wife, I think the check has been made in the wrong column as she is between 20 and 30, the record is on the bottom of the page and misallignments do happen.).
The 1840 US Federal Census for Unknown Township, Johnson County, Indiana shows that Serril had in his household one male under 5 years old (Washington), three males between 5 and 10 (William, Harvey and Jordan), one male between 15 and 20 (John) , one male between 30 and 40 (himself), one female under 5 years old (Melissa), one female between 5 and 10 ( Minerva), two females between 10 and 15 (Jane and Nancy) and one female between 30 and 40 (his wife Mary Ann).
The 1850 US Federal Census for Union, Johnson County, Indiana, taken on 1 June 1850, shows that Serril Winchester was born in Kentucky, is 46 years old, and a farmer worth $1800. In his household are his wife Mary Ann [Miller] (born in North Carolina, age 47), his son John M (born in Indiana, age 24 and a farmer worth $400), his daughter Jane S. (born in Indiana, age 21), his son Hervey C (born in Indiana, age 18, farmer-no net worth), his daughter Minerva (born in Indiana, age 16), his son Jordan M. (born in Indiana, age 15) and his daughter Melissa A [Malissa Ann] (born in Indiana, age 13)
Serril died of typhoid fever on 1 Oct 1854 and was buried in Old Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery, Row 8, Stone 5.
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