Abner Goodwin Winn was born on August 14, 1842 in York,
Maine. His mother died shortly after
his birth and he was raised by an older sister. He was one of 13 children. He enlisted in Company B of the 14th Regiment of Massachusetts
Infantry. His unit was mustered into
service and July 5, 1861. During
combat he was wounded in the thigh and discharged on August 1, 1864. During the winter of 1864 he went west to
Chicago. While in Illinois he
enlisted again and served in Company I, 9th Regiment U S Veteran
Volunteers until April 1866. He next
lived at Marion County, Iowa where he was a blacksmith. Later he moved to Blakesburg, Iowa. He married Mary M Lyon on October 6,
1872. They were the parents of five
children: Hattie George Anna Winn;
Jesse Grant Winn; Daisy Myrtle Winn, George Ezra Winn and Grace Hazel
Winn. He moved to Nebraska in 1882,
living in Otoe County for a short time and then moved on to Chambers where he
homesteaded for a year. Later he
moved to Neligh. Mary Melissa Lyon
was the daughter of Ezra M Lyon and Caroline Parr. She was born October 31, 1849 at West Salmanca, New York. Abner died at Neligh on December 4,
1906. Mary died on March 8,
1913.
Hattie George Anna Winn, known as Harriet, was born August
12, 1873 at Blakesburg, Iowa, to Abner and Mary Winn. She was five when the family moved to
Neligh, Nebraska. She graduated from
Neligh High, went to Massachusetts to learn the millinery trade, then to
Chicago and back to Neligh. Unmarried
she died January 17, 1947. Jesse
Grant Winn was born to Abner and Mary Winn on August 24, 1878 at Blakesburg. He spent most of his live in Neligh where
he operated Winn Garage. He remained
single until late in life, marrying Augusta M Zimmer on September 24,
1931. Jesse died of burns on
September 17, 1937. Daisy Myrtle Winn
was born at Blakesburg on September 5, 1881. She graduated from Neligh High in 1900 and worked in the millinery
trade. Unmarried she died on October
15, 1959. George Ezra Winn was born
at Neligh on March 27, 1886 to Abner and Mary. He worked as a Watkins salesman in the Schuyler area making
deliveries b horse and buggy. He
married Hattie May Olmsted on October 17, 1914 at Schuyler. Hattie was born May 12, 1890 near Norfolk,
Nebraska to Walter M Olmsted and Helen Mary Hawks. The couple returned to Neligh where George worked at different
things and in 1933 they started a café in Laurel. Then there were businesses in Randolph, Coleridge, and
Jackson. George died on May 19, 1946.
Hattie died at Coleridge on September 13, 1965. George and Hattie
adopted two children: Jerome W Winn
and Joanne Louise Winn. Joanne
married Leonard L Franzen.
Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in July 2007