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- According to Robert L. Winder (Sep 2000):
Benjamin S. Winder, born 20 September 1840 in Pennsylvania, who lived with his parents and was a school teacher in Waveland, Kansas in 1870. The index to Civil War soldiers in the National Archives shows that Benjamin S. Winder served in the 134th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was apparently a "100-day" regiment. Benjamin made application for pension (Application #991249) from Colorado and received a pension on certificate #900620. His widow, Mary A. Winder, made application for widow's pension from Florida in 1914 (Application #1022034) and received a pension under certificate #777851. Benjamin enlisted at Camp Fry in Chicago, Illinois on 10 May 1864 and was discharged 15 October 1864 at Camp Fry. At enlistment he gave his occupation as student, and was described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, with dark complexion, brown eyes, and dark hair. From affidavits in his pension file his wife is established as Mary A. Ogilvie, whose first husband had been John H, Carlisle, from whom she had been divorced prior to her marriage to Benjamin S. Winder in Hartland, Kansas on 14 December 1885. The marriage certificate is in the pension file. Mary A. Ogilvie stated that she was born 17 July 1839 in Chesterville, Ohio. The pension file also shows that Benjamin lived in Kansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Colorado, Arkansas and Missouri before moving to Californa. In 1912 he and Mary moved to Lynn Haven, Florida, in what is now Bay County, where they remained until Benjamin's death on 20 January 1914, with the cause of death given as "uremic coma". J. A. Winder, Benjamin's younger brother, was the informant for the death certificate, which listed Benjamin's occupation as a carpenter, his birthplace as Pennsylvania, his father's birthplace as Maryland [which is almost certainly in error], his mother as Polly Sweney born in New York. Burial was reported as made in Lynn Haven Cemetery on 21 January 1914 by James Gard, undertaker. The widow, Mary A. Winder, continued to live in Lynn Haven, except for a short time when she lived in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, California with a niece, Katherine Ford Dorce. Mary A. Winder died in Lynn Haven, Florida on 6 August 1921, with the cause of death given on her death certificate as "chronic dilatation of Heart". The death certificate stated that Mary's father was born in Scotland, while her mother, maiden name unknown, had been born in "W Va". [West Virginia was not yet in existence at the time of Mary's birth.] No children are known to have been born to Mary and Benjamin.
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1840 - 1914 (73 years)
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