Mary Elizabeth Jane MYERS

1860 - 1933  (72 years)

• Name	Mary Elizabeth Jane MYERS  [1]
  Birth	7 Dec 1860	Agency City, Wapello, Iowa, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1900	, Nye, Nevada, USA   [3]
  Residence	1910	, Churchill, Nevada, USA   [4]
  Census	1920	, Churchill, Nevada, USA
  	Federal
  cemetery	1933	Fallon, Churchill, Nevada, USA
  	Fallon Cemetery
  Name	Jane MYERS
  Name	Jennie MYERS
  Religion	Methodist
  _UID	41B783409D8248F19E6C494E377E7A0FF2E7
  Burial	Dec 1933	Fallon, Churchill, Nevada, USA
  Death	5 Dec 1933	Harmon District, Churchill, Nevada, USA   [5, 6, 7]
  	Cause: Flu and mitial insufficiency
  Person ID	I74	WinderWonderland
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2016

  
  

  Father	Edmund Cole MYERS,   b. 26 Oct 1824, , Preble, Ohio, USA d. Aft 1900 (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Sarah HARMAN,   b. 4 Apr 1835, , , Iowa, USA d. 26 Jun 1862, , Wapello, Iowa, USA (Age 27 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1855	, Wapello, Iowa, USA   [8, 9]
  Family ID	F52	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Levi Thomas WINDER,   b. 30 Nov 1842, , Jefferson, Iowa, USA d. 27 Apr 1928, Stillwater, Churchill, Nevada, USA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	12 Jul 1881	Austin, Lander, Nevada, USA   [10, 11]
  		Levi Thomas Winder and Family
  Children	1. Lillian WINDER,   b. Aft 1882   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Elbridge Lee WINDER,   b. 13 Apr 1883, Austin, Lander, Nevada, USA d. 20 Feb 1930, Fallon, Churchill, Nevada, USA (Age 46 years)   3. George Walter WINDER,   b. 1 Jul 1885, Des Moines, Jefferson, Iowa, USA d. 11 Dec 1947, Fallon, Churchill, Nevada, USA (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F50	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2013

  
  

• Event Map

  cemetery - Fallon Cemetery - 1933 - Fallon, Churchill, Nevada, USA Burial - Dec 1933 - Fallon, Churchill, Nevada, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Tombstone of Levi Thomas Winder and Mary Elizabeth Jane Myers

  
  

• Notes

  Churchill County Standard, 11 May 1907: Mrs. L.T. Winder and son, Walter, arrived in Austin Thursday from Round Mountain, and yesterday departed for the coast on a visit. ---Reveille [Austin newspaper] Churchill County Eagle, 29 Oct 1908: Mrs. Jennie Winder has been visiting at the Sifford ranch, near Stillwater, the past week. Churchill County Eagle, 5 Nov 1908: The Home Improvement Club met with Mrs. Dr. Nellie B. Hascall Tuesday afternoon and will meet next week with Mrs. Jennie Winder. Churchill County Eagle, 19 Nov 1908: The Fallon Literary and Musical Society will meet at Aunty Winder's next Wednesday evening. There will be a general meeting and every member is supposed to take part. Mrs. Jennie Winders leaves Friday for the Sifford ranch at Stillwater, to remain several days. After the 1st of the month she expects to go down to stay. Her Fallon friends hope she will conclude to stay here. Aunty Winder is a social favorite and would be greatly missed. Churchill County Eagle, 26 Nov 1908: Mrs. Jennie Winder leaves today to spend the winter with her children on the Sifford ranch, near Stillwater. She has rented her house to Dr. J.L. Smith for five months. The Fallon Eagle, 9 Dec 1933 1:3 AUNTIE WINDER QUIETLY PASSED AWAY TUESDAY Had Lived in Nevada 52 Years; Kindly Acts Had Endeared Her to Hundreds The passing of Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Winder at her home in Harmon distict Tuesday evening, December 5, 1933, removed from this community a Nevada pioneer who endeared herself to her acquaintances until she had well earned the loving and endearing name of 'Auntie' Winder, by which she had long been spoken of by the people of the community. She was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, December 7, 1860, and would have been 73 years of age on the day of her funeral. Mrs. Winder's maiden name was Myers, and in 1881 she was married to Levi Thomas Winder, who passed away in Fallon in 1928. Mr. Winder was living in Fallon and went back to Iowa to claim his bride. They immediately came to Austin, so that for 52 years she had been a resident of Nevada. They lived in Austin until 1893, then moved to a ranch on Reese River until 1898, then went to Ione for two years, coming to Churchill county in 1900 and locating near Stillwater. Mrs. Winder lived in Fallon during the early days of the town in a residence that stood on the lot adjoining the present Fallon Garage, on the east. Her place was the home of a number of young people, most of whom were employed in clerical work, or as typists or stenographers at reclamation headquarters, but teachers and others were included in the circle that greatly enjoyed the kind and friendly hospitality of 'Auntie' Winder. Many were the social gatherings and literary meetings held at her home. Many of that group of young men and young women who were privileged to enjoy her hospitality when a great many residents of Fallon had to live in shacks, tents or tent houses, will remember with deep appreciation her kind and motherly care for them in the pioneer days of the City of Fallon. That was in the boom days of the mining camps of Fairview, Wonder and Rawhide when people who had broken away from home ties and come west found it difficult to form new associations and it was for these reasons that the hearty welcome and kindly spirit of 'Auntie' Winder was accepted with deep appreciation and lasting gratitude. Hundreds will remember her for her kindly acts. In fact, when she was confined to her bed in the last illness dispensed kindly gifts to friends who called -- things made with her own hand which made the acts especially welcome. Mrs. Winder leaves one son, G.W. Winder, residing a few miles east of Fallon, on whose farm she had her home. She had one daughter, Lillian, who died at the age of 11 months, and another son, E.L. Winder, whose death occurred in 1929, and seven grandchildren, and one great grandchild, residing in and near Fallon, besides one brother, George Myers, residing in Iowa. The funeral was held from the Methodist church Thursday afternoon, the sermon being given by the residing pastor of the church, Rev. Stephen C. Thompson. Musical numbers were rendered by Mrs. T.V. Conners, Mrs. Amos Marker, Mrs. D.H. Propps, Miss Catherine Morehouse and Daniel Evans, with Mrs. F.F. Nichols at the piano. There were beautiful floral tributes. Pallbearers included old time friends and were: Dick Swope, Charles E. Kent, John Wimsett, Fred Kirn, Louis Freeman and James M. Baldwin. The remains of 'Auntie' Winder were laid to rest beside those of her late husband and life companion. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hooper, Mrs. Winifred Simonsen and Mr Robinson, relatives of Mrs. Winder, were here Thursday from Eureka to attend the funeral.

  
  

• Sources

  [S18] Claude V. Winder, Winder and Owen Family Tree, (Repository: In possession of Ann Winder) (Reliability: 0). Jennie had a cousin, Claude Myers, who had a confectioner's store in Des Moines. The rest were farmers in Ottumwa. [S24] Betty Jo Poulson, (Fall, 1996 ,). [S23] 1900 Federal Census, Nye Co, NV, Vol 2, ED 32, Sheet 5, Line 23, Page 111, Ione Precinct (Reliability: 0). Mary Winder, b. Dec 1859 in IA, both parent b. PA, enumerated with Levi Winder. [S6] 1910 Federal Census, Churchill Co, NV, ED 2, Sheet 8B, Lines 89,90, Page 13, New River Precinct (Reliability: 0). Jane, age 49, enumerated with Levi Winder [S12] Cemetery Records, Churchill and Landers Counties, Nevada (Reliability: 0). Jennie Winder, wife, 1867-1933 [S14] Fallon Cemetery, Fallon Cemetery Index, (Repository: Fallon, Churchill Co, NV), Page 18 (Reliability: 0). Mary Elizabeth Jane 'Auntie' Winder, housewife; b. 7 Dec 1867 Ottumwa, Iowa, f. Eli Myers, Iowa; Sp. Levi Thomas Winder; d. 5 Dec 1933, Harmon District. Informant Walter Winder; buried Fallon Masonic [S25] Churchill Co, Nevada, Death Certificate for Mary Elizabeth Jane Winder, 152 (Reliability: 0). Mary Elizabeth Jane Winder, female, white, widowed, b. 7 Dec 1861, 72 yrs, 11 mo, 28 days, housewife, b. Ottumwa, IA, f. Eli Myers b. Iowa; m. unknown, b. USA; d. 5 Dec 1933 of flu (contracted Dec 1 ) and mitial insufficiency. Informant Mrs. Walter Winder of Fallon [S24] Betty Jo Poulson, (Fall, 1996 ,) (Reliability: 0). Marriage Record, Clerk of District Court, Wapello Co, IA. [S402] Bob Crook, (Nov 1999), Quoting from Wapello Co marriages (Reliability: 3). [S18] Claude V. Winder, Winder and Owen Family Tree, (Repository: In possession of Ann Winder) (Reliability: 0). Eliza Harman's sister, Sarah, was the mother of Mary Elizabeth Jane Myers, who became Levi Thomas Winder's wife. Jennie and Levi were first cousins. [S400] Brøderbund Software, Inc., FTM CD#225 Marriage Index AZ, CA, ID, NV (1850-1951).