Henry WINDER

1817 - 1895  (77 years)

• Name	Henry WINDER
  Birth	19 Dec 1817	, Sunderland, Durham, England
  Gender	Male
  Census	1860	Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA
  	federal
  Census	1870	Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA
  	federal
  Military Pension	26 Mar 1890
  	for deceased son
  	pension application number 282186 certificate nr 266670
  cemetery	7 Sep 1895	Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA
  	Oak Hill Cemetery
  Occupation	joiner
  _UID	D1B9D647AC3A4B628F81C00A202ED52C63B5
  Death	5 Dec 1895	Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA
  Person ID	I27797	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	27 Dec 2015

  
  

  Father	Robert WINDER   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Jane ATKINSON   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F9719	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Agnes YOUNG,   b. 1803   d. 27 Jun 1843, Lynemouth, Northumberland, , England (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	29 Mar 1840	St. Hilda, South Shields, Durham, England
  Children	1. George WINDER,   b. 1843   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F9720	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Dec 2015

  
  

  Family 2	Octavia LINXWILER   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	22 Oct 1855	, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA
  Children	1. Sarah Caroline WINDER,   b. 1858   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Hannah WINDER,   b. 1860   d. 6 Jul 1933, Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA (Age 73 years)   3. Willard WINDER,   b. 1862   d. 29 Jan 1944 (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F9721	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Dec 2015

  
  

• Event Map

  Census - federal - 1860 - Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA Census - federal - 1870 - Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA cemetery - Oak Hill Cemetery - 7 Sep 1895 - Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA Death - 5 Dec 1895 - Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):Henry Winder said he was 61 years old in a deposition dated 2 Apr 1881 (= born about 1820); in that same deposition he gave the date of his marriage to the mother of his son George as 10 Jun 1839 in So. Shields, and the year of her death as 1844. There were no other surviving children under the age of 16. George Winder enlisted in Evansville, Indiana 1 June 1861 and was killed while taking a message to camp at Cheat Mountain, VA on 12 Sep 1861, at which time he was a private in E Company, 14 Indiana [Regiment], and George left neither widow nor child under sixteen years of age. ('Declaration for an Original Pension of a Father', dated 2 Apr 1881) In a separate account, Henry Winder says "I came to America with soldier [his son George Winder] in 1851. I came to New Orleans and from there to Mt. Vernon, Ind. and then I went to New Harmony, Ind. where I stayed a week or two, then I came to Evansville and worked on the E. & T.H.R.R. [Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad] helping in the building of the road all the way up. I married in 1855, and in 1857 I obtained work in the R.R. shops of the E. & T.H.R.R. and moved to the city of Evansville, Ind, and I continued to work in the R.R. shops from that time until something over four years ago, about five years, I was obliged to quit. " In this same deposition, he characterized South Shields as "It was a strange place to me, it was where she [Agnes] was raised." At the beginning of the deposition, he gives his age as 72 (=born about 1818) (Deposition 'A', dated 4 Mar 1890, taken from Henry Winder by a Special Examiner of the Pensions Office Charles Berry in Evansville, Indiana) Appended to this deposition is a note from Charles Berry, noting that "I took this case up out of its regular order, owing to the conditions of the roads and the high water in the Ohio River. I am obliged to work upon cases I can reach to the best advantage". Amongst various other depositions attesting to how much money Henry made when he was working and whether or not he was dependent on his son(s), there is mention of "raising a family of 4 children" and a "supposed son" named Willard.