Rufus Winslow was a son of Eddy Winslow and Betsy Wilson. He was born in Braintrim, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (now Wyoming County) on Aug. 12, 1812. He married Nancy Quick and they had the following children:
Harriet Winslow
Oliver Winslow
Warren Winslow
Samuel Winslow
Abigail Winslow
Gardner B. Winslow
Charles Winslow
Biography of Rufus Winslow, from the Taylor County, Iowa History (1881) by Lyman Evans, page 706:
"WINSLOW, RUFUS, farmer and stock-raiser, section twenty-six, post-office Lenox, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1812. He there grew to maturity and followed farming and lumbering for many years. Was married in 1833 to Miss Nancy Quick, also a native of the Keystone State. From this union there are six* children: Harriet, Oliver, Warren, Samuel, Gardiner and Abbie. Our subject moved to Illinois, and while there Mrs. W. passed away. Mrs. Laura Palmer then became his wife, but in two years after this marriage departed this life, leaving one child, Isabelle. In 1866, he married Mrs. Sarah Smith, his present wife, and came to this county in 1869. They lived under their wagon-cover while erecting a cabin, and shortly after taking possession of their new made home it was destroyed by a storm, losing all papers, family records, etc., and his family narrowly escaped from the wreck. Mr. Winslow has now as nice an eighty acre farm as there is in the township. It is all in good cultivation, fenced with osage orange hedge, and has a good house, orchard, vineyard, etc."
*note the omission of child Charles. Also omitted was Rufus' marriage about 1858 to Sarah Ann Bohannon, widow of Noah Bohannon, which produced a son Niles B. Winslow, born about 1859 in Illinois. Rufus and Sarah Ann were divorced in March of 1866, just before his marriage to Sarah Ann Smith.
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Harriet Winslow
Oliver Winslow
Warren Winslow
Samuel Winslow
Abigail Winslow
Gardner B. Winslow
Charles Winslow
Biography of Rufus Winslow, from the Taylor County, Iowa History (1881) by Lyman Evans, page 706:
"WINSLOW, RUFUS, farmer and stock-raiser, section twenty-six, post-office Lenox, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1812. He there grew to maturity and followed farming and lumbering for many years. Was married in 1833 to Miss Nancy Quick, also a native of the Keystone State. From this union there are six* children: Harriet, Oliver, Warren, Samuel, Gardiner and Abbie. Our subject moved to Illinois, and while there Mrs. W. passed away. Mrs. Laura Palmer then became his wife, but in two years after this marriage departed this life, leaving one child, Isabelle. In 1866, he married Mrs. Sarah Smith, his present wife, and came to this county in 1869. They lived under their wagon-cover while erecting a cabin, and shortly after taking possession of their new made home it was destroyed by a storm, losing all papers, family records, etc., and his family narrowly escaped from the wreck. Mr. Winslow has now as nice an eighty acre farm as there is in the township. It is all in good cultivation, fenced with osage orange hedge, and has a good house, orchard, vineyard, etc."
*note the omission of child Charles. Also omitted was Rufus' marriage about 1858 to Sarah Ann Bohannon, widow of Noah Bohannon, which produced a son Niles B. Winslow, born about 1859 in Illinois. Rufus and Sarah Ann were divorced in March of 1866, just before his marriage to Sarah Ann Smith.
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Rufus Winslow was a son of Eddy Winslow and Betsy Wilson. He was born in Braintrim, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (now Wyoming County) on Aug. 12, 1812. He married Nancy Quick and they had the following children:
Harriet Winslow
Oliver Winslow
Warren Winslow
Samuel Winslow
Abigail Winslow
Gardner B. Winslow
Charles Winslow
Biography of Rufus Winslow, from the Taylor County, Iowa History (1881) by Lyman Evans, page 706:
"WINSLOW, RUFUS, farmer and stock-raiser, section twenty-six, post-office Lenox, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1812. He there grew to maturity and followed farming and lumbering for many years. Was married in 1833 to Miss Nancy Quick, also a native of the Keystone State. From this union there are six* children: Harriet, Oliver, Warren, Samuel, Gardiner and Abbie. Our subject moved to Illinois, and while there Mrs. W. passed away. Mrs. Laura Palmer then became his wife, but in two years after this marriage departed this life, leaving one child, Isabelle. In 1866, he married Mrs. Sarah Smith, his present wife, and came to this county in 1869. They lived under their wagon-cover while erecting a cabin, and shortly after taking possession of their new made home it was destroyed by a storm, losing all papers, family records, etc., and his family narrowly escaped from the wreck. Mr. Winslow has now as nice an eighty acre farm as there is in the township. It is all in good cultivation, fenced with osage orange hedge, and has a good house, orchard, vineyard, etc."
*note the omission of child Charles. Also omitted was Rufus' marriage about 1858 to Sarah Ann Bohannon, widow of Noah Bohannon, which produced a son Niles B. Winslow, born about 1859 in Illinois. Rufus and Sarah Ann were divorced in March of 1866, just before his marriage to Sarah Ann Smith.
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Harriet Winslow
Oliver Winslow
Warren Winslow
Samuel Winslow
Abigail Winslow
Gardner B. Winslow
Charles Winslow
Biography of Rufus Winslow, from the Taylor County, Iowa History (1881) by Lyman Evans, page 706:
"WINSLOW, RUFUS, farmer and stock-raiser, section twenty-six, post-office Lenox, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1812. He there grew to maturity and followed farming and lumbering for many years. Was married in 1833 to Miss Nancy Quick, also a native of the Keystone State. From this union there are six* children: Harriet, Oliver, Warren, Samuel, Gardiner and Abbie. Our subject moved to Illinois, and while there Mrs. W. passed away. Mrs. Laura Palmer then became his wife, but in two years after this marriage departed this life, leaving one child, Isabelle. In 1866, he married Mrs. Sarah Smith, his present wife, and came to this county in 1869. They lived under their wagon-cover while erecting a cabin, and shortly after taking possession of their new made home it was destroyed by a storm, losing all papers, family records, etc., and his family narrowly escaped from the wreck. Mr. Winslow has now as nice an eighty acre farm as there is in the township. It is all in good cultivation, fenced with osage orange hedge, and has a good house, orchard, vineyard, etc."
*note the omission of child Charles. Also omitted was Rufus' marriage about 1858 to Sarah Ann Bohannon, widow of Noah Bohannon, which produced a son Niles B. Winslow, born about 1859 in Illinois. Rufus and Sarah Ann were divorced in March of 1866, just before his marriage to Sarah Ann Smith.
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