Elias Upton WINDERS

1833 - 1906  (72 years)

• Name	Elias Upton WINDERS
  Birth	9 Mar 1833	, Washington, Maryland, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1860	Moorefield, Clark, Ohio, USA
  	federal
  Draft Registration	Aug 1863	Funkstown, Washington, Maryland, USA
  	Civil War
  Census	1870	Polo, Ogle, lllinois, USA
  	Federal
  	Indexed as Elias W Winders
  article	12 Dec 1877	Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA
  	Herald and Torch Light
  	The Work of One of our Fomer Citizens Some eight or ten years ago, Mr. Elias U. WInders, of our county, Emigrated to Polo, Ogle county, Illinois, but a year ago removed to the vicinity of Wichita, Kansas. In a recent number of the Eagle printed in that county, we find the subjoined letter from him in which, with pardonable pride, he states the amount of work which he and his family have accomplished during the comparatively short time that they have occupied in their new home in Kansas: WICHITA TOWNSHIP, Nov. 26, 1877 Col. Murdock: -- Dear Sir: After reading your valuable paper for twelve months, I have come to the conclusion that you are doing mroe to develop this new country than any citizen I know of. Seeing that you pay attention to local items, I would like to say what I have done since coming here. I came to Sedgwick county about the first of September, 1876, and the same fall put in one hundred acres of wheat, having bought a half section of land four miles northeast of Wichita. I built two houses -- one 24 x 28, tow stories high, well finished inside and out, and the other 16 x 24, story and a half high; dug two wells and one cistern. In the spring of '77 I put in fifty acres of corn, fifty acres in oats, and forty acres in barley, flax and millet. I also built ten out-houses. I broke 225 acres of prairie, and re-broke the same, and sowed it to wheat this fall. I have put out four miles of hedge fence and cultivated the same. I have set out twelve hundred fruit trees, and made forty tons of hay inst and forty tons this fall. -- This work was done by myself and family, except six months' labor by one hand, on the farm, and forty dollars paid to mechanics. E.U.WINDERS We know Mr. Winder well, as many of our readers do, and have nodoubt of the correctness of his statement. He is a man of great mechanical genius, and an important acquisition to any community, especially a new one, in which he may cast his lot.
  Census	1880	Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
  	Federal
  	Household of E.U. Winders
  article	15 Oct 1885	Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA
  	The Herald and Torchlight
  	Mr. Elias U. Winders, one of the substantial farmers of Kansas, is visiting his old friends in the Beaver Creek region. Mr. Winders went West some 35 years ago [ca. 1850], but has kept up his acquaintance with his native county during all this period by reading the HERALD AND TORCHLIGHT every week.
  City Directory	1889	Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
  Census	1900	Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
  	federal
  City Directory	1906	Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
  cemetery	Jan 1906	Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
  	Highland Cemetery
  Death	18 Jan 1906
  National Register Application	8 Jul 2009	Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA
  	U S Department of the Interior, National Park Service
  	For application and description of proposed Winder Historical District, click «a href="http://khri.kansasgis.org/photos_docs/173-11410_8.pdf"»http://khri.kansasgis.org/photos_docs/173-11410_8.pdf«/a»
  _UID	A3B0A6D2F5704CF58E436DC7DA0E57601575
  Person ID	I25207	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	Jacob WINDERS,   b. 9 Nov 1803   d. 21 Jul 1863, Beaver Creek, Washington, Maryland, USA (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Sarah LANDIS,   b. 3 Aug 1828   d. 3 Jul 1879 (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1825	, Washington, Maryland, USA
  Family ID	F8831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Ellen EYERLY,   b. 1834, , , Maryland, USA d. 25 Sep 1917 (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	9 Nov 1853	, Washington, Maryland, USA
  Children	1. Eliza Kate WINDERS,   b. 1 Jul 1855, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA d. 1940 (Age 84 years)   2. Harry Jacob WINDERS,   b. 1858, , Clark, Ohio, USA d. 1932 (Age 74 years)   3. Mary Alice WINDERS,   b. 12 Mar 1860, , Clark, Ohio, USA d. 20 Mar 1936, Gypsum, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA (Age 76 years)   4. George Eyerly WINDERS,   b. 12 Aug 1862, , , Maryland, USA d. 27 Mar 1941, Prairie, Jackson, Missouri, USA (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F8843	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Oct 2013

  
  

• Event Map

  Census - Federal - 1870 - Polo, Ogle, lllinois, USA article - Herald and Torch Light - 12 Dec 1877 - Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA Census - Federal - 1880 - Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA article - The Herald and Torchlight - 15 Oct 1885 - Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA City Directory - 1889 - Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA Census - federal - 1900 - Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA City Directory - 1906 - Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA cemetery - Highland Cemetery - Jan 1906 - Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA National Register Application - U S Department of the Interior, National Park Service - 8 Jul 2009 - Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  According to John H Winder: «u»«b»Elias Upton Winders «/u»«/b» (1833-1906) followed his brother John's scenario: he held a public sale to divest himself of his personal and farm property at his residence one-half mile west of Funkstown, Maryland on 5 March 1869, and by the time of the 1870 census enumeration, he and his family (wife «u»Elizabeth Ellen Eyerly «/u», daughters Catherine and Mary Alice and sons Henry, Jacob and George Eyerly Winders) were living in Polo, Ogle County, Illinois and Elias was working in a lumber planing mill. By September 1876, however, Elias and family had moved on to Sedgwick County, Kansas, where he was farming half a section of land (320 acres) four miles northeast of Wichita. According to his own account, by the fall of 1877 he had plowed 225 acres and put it in winter wheat, built two houses, dug two wells, set out twelve hundred fruit trees, and made 40 tons of hay. By 1900, with the kids grown, Elias and Elizabeth were living in town on South Topeka Avenue in a house that is now part of the Winders Historic District of Wichita. Elias died on 16 January 1906, and his wife continued to live in Wichita (she was enumerated there, on South Topeka Ave age 79 in 1910 and the City Directory for 1916 listed her as a resident), and when she died on 25 September 1917, she was buried in Highland Cemetery in Wichita, next to her husband. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S903] U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations Records 1863-1865, (\i ancestry.com\i0 .), (accessed 24 Oct 2013). (Reliability: 3). [S1017] Winder, John Hancestry.com, Winders from Washington County, Maryland Who Emigrated to Ogle County, Illinois, (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~annieron/Winder/Library/Ogle.htm), ) (Reliability: 3).