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- James appears several times in the Quaker records, transferring among the Fairfield, Springborough, and Goshen Monthly Meetings in the years 1832-1838. However, by 1850 he had joined the rest of the family in North Lewisburg.
Greenplain MM minutes: James Windows rocf Fairfield MM, dtd 1832, 11, 22
Greenplain MM minutes: James gct Fairfield MM
1850 Census, Champaign Co, OH. Age 38. Farmer. Worth $1500. Wife Eliza age 37 NY. William W. 13 OH, Francis A. 11 OH, Nancy A. 8 OH, Hatie? 7 OH, Charlotte F. 5 OH, Joseph A. 2 OH.
Goshen MM Minutes: (no date) James & Eliza
Ch: Nancy A. b 1842, 1, 22
Hope b 1843, 1, 26
Charlott b 1846, 6, 7
Joseph A. b 1848, 8, 12
1860 Census, New Sharon, Mahaska Co, Iowa. Age 48, b. OH. Farmer. Real estate worth $2620, personal worth $425. Eliza 49 b. NY, William W. 23 Farm Laborer worth $59 b. OH, Francis A. 21 Farm Laborer worth $25 b. OH, Nancy A 18 Housemaid b. OH, Hope 14 Housemaid b. OH, Charlotte T. 13 Housemaid b. OH, Joseph A 12 b. OH, Amer J. 5 b. IA.
According to Bill Johns:
..the Portrait and Biographical Album of Mahaska Co, IA, 1887, pages 175-176...mentions a James WINDER, b. 19 March, 1812, Roos Co., OH, m. 22 Oct, 1835, Eliza ALLBRIGHT. James d. 21 Aug 1881. James and Eliza were Quakers. This family is also mentioned in the Past and Present of Mahaska County, IA, 1906, page 444-448.
Biography from Portrait & Biographical Album of Mahaska Co., Iowa, 1887:
JAMES WINDER, deceased, the second man to settle at New Sharon, was a native of Ross County, Ohio, and was born on the 19th day of March, 1812. He was raised a farmer boy until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when he left the farm and learned the trade of carriage-making, Five years later, Oct. 22, 1835, he was united in marriage with Eliza Allbright, who was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., May 26, 1813. They became the parents of eight children, one of whom died in childhood and seven attained their majority, as follows: William W. is a barber at New Sharon; Francis resides at Oskaloosa; Nancy is the wife of Jared Rockwell, at New Sharon; Hope became the wife of Benton Rakestraw, and died July 25, 1868; Charlotte is the wife of Goodman Strom, and lives in Prairie Township; Joseph A. resides in Dickinson County, Kan.; Abner J. is railroading in Kansas. In 1838 Mr. Winder removed to Champaign County, Ohio, and worked at carriage-making until 1852, when he loaded his family and household goods into a covered wagon and started for the further West. After a journey of twenty-one days they arrived in Mahaska County, and settled on a farm at Center Grove, near the present city of Oskaloosa. Here he purchased about seventy acres of land, on which the family resided while Mr. Winder worked at carpentering. In 1857 he sold his little farm, and removed to what is now New Sharon, where he had erected the second dwelling in the place. He continued to work at the carpenter trade as long as his health permitted, and departed this life Aug. 21, 1881. His wife still survives, and resides at New Sharon. In his political affiliations Mr. Winder was in early life a Whig, and afterward a Republican, and was frequently honored by the people with important local offices. Religiously he was a member of the Society of Friends. Mr. Winder was the first Postmaster at New Sharon and the first merchant of that little city. He will be remembered by many of our earlier settlers as a man of excellent Christian character, industrious, hard-working, strictly conscientious, and in all respects a man of estimable character.
According to Robert L. Winder (Aug 2008): James Winder moved to the town of Lewisburg [later North Lewisburg] in Ohio in the 1830's, where the family were among the leading members of the Quaker Church in that community. I believe that there were also a number of Sharps who were among the early Quaker families in America. James' Winder ancestors lived, in reverse chronological order, in North Lewisburg, Ohio, Dry Run, Ross County, Ohio near Chillicothe, Ohio, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Chester County, PA, Bucks Clunty, PA and Hunterdon County, NJ, where his immigrant ancetor, Thomas Winder, arrived in 1705 with his wife and family.
...Wm W Winder served a short while in the Union Army in the Civil War, enlisting in Co. H of the 8th Regt. of Iowa Volunteer Infantry in1861, and being discharged by medical certificate of disablility in 1862. Perhaps one of your (Doris Gill's) ancestors served with him in the Iowa Volunteer Infantry? In 1864 he is supposed to have returned to Ohio to learn the art of photography, and in 1867 returned to New sharon, IA. He was later listed in the census as being a repairer of sewing machines.
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