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Dennis George Winn by Bruce Winn Walker, great-grandson
Following is a brief
(1) Hij is getrouwd met Hannah Crossley.
Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1856, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.
Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1859, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.Bron 1 Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 augustus 1866 te Salt Lake City,Salt Lake,Utah, hij was toen 34 jaar oud.Bron 1Kind(eren):
(2) Hij is getrouwd met Alice Cunliffe.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 augustus 1866 te Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, hij was toen 34 jaar oud.Bronnen 1, 3
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Life Sketch of Dennis George WinnContributed By · 21 December 2013 · 0 Comments
Dennis George Winn by Bruce Winn Walker, great-grandson Following is a brief sketch of the life of Dennis George Winn, prominent Utah pioneer, colonizer, church leader, and father. A man who sacrificed much, and who remained unflinching in his devotion to the Church and to God’s living prophet. Born the 6th of August, 1832, in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, Dennis was the eldest child and only son of John Winn and Jane Broughton. When the missionaries came to this area in 1847, the Winn family enthusiastically embraced the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. John was the first to be baptized. He then baptized his son, Dennis, now age fifteen, on the 11th of October, 1847. His wife, Jane, was baptized on November 30th, 1847 by Elder Charles Phillips. Immediately upon joining the Church, John and Jane began dreaming and planning to make the long journey to America and Zion. The two girls, Elizabeth and Mary, were baptized as they came of age by their big brother, Dennis; Elizabeth on December 16th, 1851, followed by Mary Ann on May 15th, 1852. Like most British converts, the Winn family was without ready means to buy passage to America, so it was not until age twenty-one that Dennis was able to leave England for the promised land where he hoped to make preparations for the remainder of the family to follow. On the 15th of February, 1853 he bid farewell to his beloved parents and younger sisters, Elizabeth and Mary Ann, boarded the ship “Elvira Owen” and set sail with a company of “Perpetual Immigration” Saints presided over by John W. Young, sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans, arriving the 31st of March, 1853. From there he traveled by steamer up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa, near Nauvoo. From Keokuk he trekked the long fifteen hundred miles across the plains with the Cyrus Wheellock Pioneer Company, arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on October 6, 1853, nearly eight months after leaving England. Only three months after Dennis’ arrival in Utah Territory, his father, John, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away in England the 4th of January, 1854, at age forty-five. What a staggering blow this must have been to Dennis’ dear mother and sweet little sisters, who now must face the long and difficult journey across the ocean and plains without the assistance and encouragement of husband, father, and provider. Then, sometime between 1854 and 1856, the eldest of the two sisters, Elizabeth, also passed away, leaving Dennis’ widowed mother, Jane, and his little sister, Mary Ann, to face the terrors of an ocean crossing, and the rigors of an exhausting pioneer trek with only each other and their faith and courage to sustain them. On May 25th, 1856, Jane and Mary Ann joined with a large company of six-hundred and thirty-five eager saints joyfully bound for Zion. The group, presided over by Elder Edward Martin, then returning from his mission to Great Britain, sailed aboard the ship “Horizon” from Liverpool to Boston. From there, they traveled by rail car to Iowa City, arriving the eighth day of July. After three long weeks spent outfitting this large company with handcarts and supplies, the Martin Handcart Company at last embarked on their fateful journey on the 28th of July, 1856. According to the handcart record, Jane, age fifty-eight, died on the plains of Eastern Wyoming, never reaching the destination she so often dreamed of, nor seeing again her son, Dennis, in this life. Like so many others, this great Latter-Day Saint pioneer gave her all to insure that her family would reach Zion and enjoy the rich blessings promised to the faithful Saints who gathered there. Brave little Mary Ann , now orphaned, freezing and starving, somehow survived the harrowing ordeal and was rescued by none other than her big brother, Dennis. This vigorous young “hero” had been one of the first to step forward on October 5th when President Brigham Young called for volunteers to go bring in the Saints stranded on the high plains of Wyoming. What a joyous reunion that must have been! (See “The Mystery of Mary Ann,” by Bruce Walker. See also the painting, “Reunion,” by Utah artist Linda Curley Christensen, which depicts the reunion of MaryAnn with her big brother Dennis.) Among those grateful pioneers rescued from the fierce blizzard by our Dennis, was a family named Crossley, consisting of Mary (the mother), three daughters: Mary Ann, Hannah, and Sarah, and two sons: Ephriam and William. Another son, Joseph, after being pulled in a handcart for hundreds of miles by Hannah and Sarah, died on the plains before the family reached what is now Martin’s Cove. The husband and father of the family, James Crossley, had come to Utah two years earlier to prepare a place for his family’s arrival, never dreaming that his wife and children would be subjected to such intense suffering. Hannah Crossley, then but fifteen years of age, must have been smitten with Dennis, her brave and gallant twenty-four year old rescuer, for the record states that “Dennis drove the cows and assisted Hannah in pushing the handcart in which her mother rode. This started their courtship.” After they reached the Salt Lake Valley, the two were wed late in 1856 and immediately moved to Nephi where they settled down to the work of building a home and raising a family. This happy union was blessed with eight children: Latitia, James Dennis, George, Ephriam, Mary Hannah, William, Bertha Ellen, and Sarah Ann. In 1857, Dennis assisted General Daniel H. Wells in setting up a headquarters in Echo Canyon to supervise the digging of trenches for eighteen hundred men who would stop the advance into the Valley of Johnson’s Army. On the 25th of August, 1866, ten years after this marriage to his child bride, Hannah, Dennis, in obedience to the law of plural marriage, married a young widow named Alice Cunliffe in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. (See “Alice Cunliffe Winn,” by Bruce Walker) Dennis and Alice were also blessed with eight children: John, Elizabeth Jane, Thomas Cunliffe, Robert, Eden, Ernest (my Grandpa Winn), Georginia and David. So, Dennis became the husband of two wives, and father and provider for sixteen children. A miller by trade, Dennis worked in a gristmill in Nephi until 1876, when at age forty-four he moved his families to Bountiful for better employment. He operated the first gristmill in Bountiful, then in 1880, he moved both families into two separate homes in Centerville. The 1880 Federal Census lists Dennis, age forty-eight, and Alice, age thirty-two, now with seven of their eight children: John 12, Elizabeth 11, Thomas 9, Robert 7, Eden 5, Ernest 3, and Georginia 6 months. This census also lists Hannah Winn, with her five youngest children, living in a home nearby. In 1884, at age fifty-two, Dennis moved his families back to their beloved Nephi, where the two families lived in adjoining houses on Track Street. Dennis George Winn was well-known and respected for his honesty, hard work, and generosity. During these years of never-ending work and the responsibility of providing for two large families, he also faithfully served in many callings in the church. His devotion to the Lord and to his wonderful family are chronicled with a biographical sketch and photograph in the book, “Pioneers and Prominent Men Of Utah.” With the passing of the Edmonds Tucker act in 1887, federal officers arrived and began cruelly arresting and imprisoning any “Mormon” male found cohabiting with more than one wife. The Prophet Brigham Young, in an attempt to comply with federal law while minimizing the suffering of the faithful brethren and their families, called Dennis (together with other faithful brethren) to settle the remote Bear River Country, and to take with him only his first wife, Hannah. (At this time, all polygamist brethren were counseled to live with only their first wife.) Tragically, this meant leaving his precious Alice and their six youngest children, ages four to sixteen, behind in Nephi. Ernest was ten years old at the time. One can only imagine the supreme trial this must have been for the whole family. Young children asking, “Why must Daddy and Aunt Hannah go away?” “When will we ever see them again?” What agonizing, wrenching pain Dennis must have experienced as he bid a tender goodbye to his sweetheart, Alice, (now only age 40) and to his precious little ones. These were the kinds of sacrifices endured by faithful pioneers who continually put their full trust in the Lord and in his living Prophet here upon the earth. Alone now, our faithful Alice raised her children to maturity and saw each of them (except John, who died at age fifteen) marry and begin families of their own. Elizabeth married Albert Beutler, Thomas married Elsie Pitt, Robert married Annie Jensen, Eden married Carolyn Marie (Carrie) Breinholt, Ernest married Lula Devet Ostler, Georginia married George Worthington, and David married Jennie Cooper. Worn out in loving, selfless service to her family, Alice passed away on the 15th of November, 1901, at age fifty-four, with Ernest and Lula (my wonderful grandparents) at her bedside. Previous to their move to Bear River, Idaho Territory, Dennis and Hannah had lost two of their eight children: their second son, James Dennis, in infancy, and their youngest daughter, Sarah Ann, in 1878, at age two. The two eldest children, Latitia and George, were now married, so Dennis, age fifty-five, and Hannah, now forty-six, along with their four youngest children: Ephriam 19, Mary 17, William 15, and Bertha 13, made one more long pioneer journey, this time to the mountains of Idaho, where they helped to settle and tame the rugged Bear River Country. Just as they had done in Nephi some thirty years earlier, they immediately set about to build a comfortable home for the family, and to begin life anew in this remote, unsettled area. Dennis George Winn, prominent pioneer of Utah, valiant husband, father, and church leader, privileged to see each of his younger children marry and begin families of their own, passed away in St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho on August 16th, 1910 at age seventy-eight. His devoted wife and companion of fifty-four years, Hannah, followed him in death on November 29th, 1912. Their earthly remains were placed side by side on a green hillside in the beautiful St. Charles Cemetery in Idaho. Thus closes the story of the mortal lives of three stalwart Saints of this dispensation: Dennis, along with his two beloved and devoted companions, Hannah and Alice. Who could have given more? It now remains to us, their blessed posterity, to honor them and the rich legacy they have handed to us, through exercising steady faith and trust in the Lord, courage in the face of trial and adversity, unflinching devotion to the Church and its leaders, and fierce loyalty and love for our eternal companions and our precious children and grandchildren.
on of John Parley Winn and Jane Broughton
Married Hannah Crossley, 1859
Children - Laetitia Winn, James Dennis Winn, Dennis Winn, Ephriam Crossley Winn, Mary Hannah Winn, William Cornelius Winn, Bertha Ellen Winn, Sarah Ann Winn
Married Alice Cunliffe, 25 Aug 1866, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - John Cooper Winn, Elizabeth Jane Winn, Thomas Cunliffe Winn, Robert Winn, Eden Winn, Ernest Winn, Georgina Winn, David F Winn
Life Sketch - Dennis George Winn by Bruce Winn Walker, great-grandson
Following is a brief sketch of the life of Dennis George Winn, prominent Utah pioneer, colonizer, church leader, and father. A man who sacrificed much, and who remained unflinching in his devotion to the Church and to God’s living prophet.
Born the 6th of August, 1832, in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, Dennis was the eldest child and only son of John Winn and Jane Broughton. When the missionaries came to this area in 1847, the Winn family enthusiastically embraced the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. John was the first to be baptized on September 18th. He then baptized his son, Dennis, now age fifteen, on the 11th of October, and his wife, Jane, on November 30th. Immediately upon joining the Church, John and Jane began dreaming and planning to make the long journey to America and Zion. The two girls, Elizabeth and Mary, were baptized as they came of age by their big brother, Dennis; Elizabeth on December 16th, 1851, followed by Mary Ann on May 15th, 1852.
Like most British converts, the Winn family was without ready means to buy passage to America, so it was not until age twenty-one that Dennis was able to leave England for the promised land where he hoped to make preparations for the remainder of the family to follow. On the 15th of February, 1853 he bid farewell to his beloved parents and younger sisters, Elizabeth and Mary Ann, boarded the ship “Elvira Owen” and set sail with a company of “Perpetual Immigration” Saints presided over by John W. Young, sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans, arriving the 31st of March, 1853. From there he traveled by steamer up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa, near Nauvoo. From Keokuk he trekked the long fifteen hundred miles across the plains with the Cyrus Wheelock Pioneer Company, arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on October 6, 1853, nearly eight months after leaving England.
Only three months after Dennis’ arrival in Utah Territory, his father, John, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away in England the 4th of January, 1854, at age forty-five. What a staggering blow this must have been to Dennis’ dear mother and sweet little sisters, who now must face the long and difficult journey across the ocean and plains without the assistance and encouragement of husband, father, and provider. Then, sometime between 1854 and 1856, the eldest of the two sisters, Elizabeth, also passed away, leaving Dennis’ widowed mother, Jane, and his little sister, Mary Ann, to face the terrors of an ocean crossing, and the rigors of an exhausting pioneer trek with only each other and their faith and courage to sustain them.
On May 25th, 1856, Jane and Mary Ann joined with a large company of six-hundred and thirty-five eager saints joyfully bound for Zion. The group, presided over by Elder Edward Martin, then returning from his mission to Great Britain, sailed aboard the ship “Horizon” from Liverpool to Boston. From there, they traveled by rail car to Iowa City, arriving the eighth day of July. After three long weeks spent outfitting this large company with handcarts and supplies, the Martin Handcart Company at last embarked on their fateful journey on the 28th of July, 1856.
According to the handcart record, Jane, age fifty-eight, died on the plains of Eastern Wyoming, never reaching the destination she so often dreamed of, nor seeing again her son, Dennis, in this life. Like so many others, this great Latter-Day Saint pioneer gave her all to insure that her family would reach Zion and enjoy the rich blessings promised to the faithful Saints who gathered there.
Brave little Mary Ann, now orphaned, freezing and starving, somehow survived the harrowing ordeal and was rescued by none other than her big brother, Dennis. This vigorous young “hero” had been one of the first to step forward on October 5th when President Brigham Young called for volunteers to go bring in the Saints stranded on the high plains of Wyoming. What a joyous reunion that must have been!
(See “The Mystery of Mary Ann,” by Bruce Walker. See also the painting, "Reunion,” by Utah artist Linda Curley Christensen, which depicts the reunion of Mary Ann with her big brother Dennis.)
Among those grateful pioneers rescued from the fierce blizzard by our Dennis, was a family named Crossley, consisting of Mary (the mother), three daughters: Mary Ann, Hannah, and Sarah, and two sons: Ephraim and William.
Another son, Joseph, after being pulled in a handcart for hundreds of miles by Hannah and Sarah, died on the plains before the family reached what is now Martin’s Cove. The husband and father of the family, James Crossley, had come to Utah two years earlier to prepare a place for his family’s arrival, never dreaming that his wife and children would be subjected to such intense suffering.
Hannah Crossley, then but fifteen years of age, must have been smitten with Dennis, her brave and gallant twenty-four year old rescuer, for the record states that “Dennis drove the cows and assisted Hannah in pushing the handcart in which her mother rode. This started their courtship.” After they reached the Salt Lake Valley, the two were wed late in 1856 and immediately moved to Nephi where they settled down to the work of building a home and raising a family. This happy union was blessed with eight children: Latitia, James Dennis, George, Ephraim, Mary Hannah, William, Bertha Ellen, and Sarah Ann.
In 1857, Dennis assisted General Daniel H. Wells in setting up a headquarters in Echo Canyon to supervise the digging of trenches for eighteen hundred men who would stop the advance into the Valley of Johnson’s Army.
On the 25th of August, 1866, ten years after this marriage to his child bride, Hannah, Dennis, in obedience to the law of plural marriage, married a young widow named Alice Cunliffe in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. (See “Alice Cunliffe Winn,” by Bruce Walker) Dennis and Alice were also blessed with eight children: John, Elizabeth Jane, Thomas Cunliffe, Robert, Eden, Ernest (my Grandpa Winn), Georginia and David. So, Dennis became the husband of two wives, and father and provider for sixteen children.
A miller by trade, Dennis worked in a gristmill in Nephi until 1876, when at age forty-four he moved his families to Bountiful for better employment. He operated the first gristmill in Bountiful, then in 1880, he moved both families into two separate homes in Centerville. The 1880 Federal Census lists Dennis, age forty-eight, and Alice, age thirty-two, now with seven of their eight children: John 12, Elizabeth 11, Thomas 9, Robert 7, Eden 5, Ernest 3, and Georginia 6 months. This census also lists Hannah Winn, with her five youngest children, living in a home nearby. In 1884, at age fifty-two, Dennis moved his families back to their beloved Nephi, where the two families lived in adjoining houses on Track Street.
Dennis George Winn was well-known and respected for his honesty, hard work, and generosity. During these years of never-ending work and the responsibility of providing for two large families, he also faithfully served in many callings in the church. His devotion to the Lord and to his wonderful family are chronicled with a biographical sketch and photograph in the book, “Pioneers and Prominent Men Of Utah.”
With the passing of the Edmonds Tucker act in 1887, federal officers arrived and began cruelly arresting and imprisoning any “Mormon” male found cohabiting with more than one wife. The Prophet Brigham Young, in an attempt to comply with federal law while minimizing the suffering of the faithful brethren and their families, called Dennis (together with other faithful brethren) to settle the remote Bear River Country, and to take with him only his first wife, Hannah. (At this time, all polygamist brethren were counseled to live with only their first wife). Tragically, this meant leaving his precious Alice and their six youngest children, ages four to sixteen, behind in Nephi. Ernest was ten years old at the time.
One can only imagine the supreme trial this must have been for the whole family. Young children asking, “Why must Daddy and Aunt Hannah go away?” “When will we ever see them again?” What agonizing, wrenching pain Dennis must have experienced as he bid a tender goodbye to his sweetheart, Alice, (now only age 40) and to his precious little ones. These were the kinds of sacrifices endured by faithful pioneers who continually put their full trust in the Lord and in his living Prophet here upon the earth.
Alone now, our faithful Alice raised her children to maturity and saw each of them (except John, who died at age fifteen) marry and begin families of their own. Elizabeth married Albert Beutler, Thomas married Elsie Pitt, Robert married Annie Jensen, Eden married Carolyn Marie (Carrie) Breinholt, Ernest married Lula Devet Ostler, Georginia married George Worthington, and David married Jennie Cooper. Worn out in loving, selfless service to her family, Alice passed away on the 15th of November, 1901, at age fifty-four, with Ernest and Lula (my wonderful grandparents) at her bedside.
Previous to their move to Bear River, Idaho Territory, Dennis and Hannah had lost two of their eight children: their second son, James Dennis, in infancy, and their youngest daughter, Sarah Ann, in 1878, at age two. The two eldest children, Latitia and George, were now married, so Dennis, age fifty-five, and Hannah, now forty-six, along with their four youngest children: Ephriam 19, Mary 17, William 15, and Bertha 13, made one more long pioneer journey, this time to the mountains of Idaho, where they helped to settle and tame the rugged Bear River Country. Just as they had done in Nephi some thirty years earlier, they immediately set about to build a comfortable home for the family, and to begin life anew in this remote, unsettled area.
Dennis George Winn, prominent pioneer of Utah, valiant husband, father, and church leader, privileged to see each of his younger children marry and begin families of their own, passed away in St. Charles, Bear Lake, Idaho on August 16th, 1910 at age seventy-eight. His devoted wife and companion of fifty-four years, Hannah, followed him in death just three and one-half months later, on November 27th, 1910. Their earthly remains were placed side by side on a green hillside in the beautiful St. Charles Cemetery in Idaho. Thus closes the story of the mortal lives of three stalwart Saints of this dispensation: Dennis, along with his two beloved and devoted companions, Hannah and Alice.
Who could have given more? It now remains to us, their blessed posterity, to honor them and the rich legacy they have handed to us, through exercising steady faith and trust in the Lord, courage in the face of trial and adversity, unflinching devotion to the Church and its leaders, and fierce loyalty and love for our eternal companions and our precious children and grandchildren.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Cyrus H. Wheelock Company (1853); Age at departure: 22
Family links:
Spouses:
Hannah Crossley Winn (1840 - 1912)
Alice Cunliffe Winn (1847 - 1901)
Children:
Dennis George Winn (1864 - 1921)*
John C Winn (1867 - 1883)*
Ephriam Crossley Winn (1868 - 1947)*
Elizabeth Jane Winn Ekstrom (1869 - 1958)*
Mary Hannah Winn Gheen (1870 - 1933)*
Thomas Cunliffe Winn (1871 - 1949)*
William Cornelius Winn (1872 - 1954)*
Bertha Ellen Winn Johns (1873 - 1972)*
Robert Winn (1873 - 1958)*
Eden Winn (1875 - 1948)*
Ernest Winn (1877 - 1957)*
Georgina Winn Worthington (1879 - 1911)*
David F Winn (1883 - 1962)*
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D George Winn, "United States Census, 1910"/ FamilySearch