Person:Benjamin Winfrey (3)

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Benjamin Henry Winfrey
b.1810 , Adair, KY, USA
d.Feb 1865 , Carroll, MO, USA
Parents and Siblings
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m. 31 Jan 1803
  1. John Benedict Winfrey1804 - 1859
  2. Joseph Evans Winfrey1806 - 1878
  3. Thomas G. Winfrey1808 - 1864
  4. Benjamin Henry Winfrey1810 - 1865
  5. William Pleasant Winfrey1815 - 1872
  6. Sarah Jane Winfrey1817 - 1899
Spouse and Children
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m. 22 Jul 1831
  1. William Pleasant Winfrey1832 - 1880
  2. Florinda M. Winfrey1834 - 1929
  3. Caroline Matilda Winfrey1837 - 1909
  4. Saludia J. Winfrey1845 -
  5. Matilda C. Winfrey1850 -
  6. Editha Winfrey1853 -
  7. Pina Belle Winfrey1854 - 1902
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Benjamin Henry Winfrey
Gender Male
Birth? 1810 , Adair, KY, USA
Marriage 22 Jul 1831 , Adair, KY, USAto Matilda O. McCain
Residence[3] 1850 , Carroll, MO, USA
Death[2][5] Feb 1865 , Carroll, MO, USA
Burial? Feb 1865 Combs Township, Carroll, MO, USA

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This note appeared in the publication "History of Carroll County", p.470............ "What apology is to be offered for the killing of poor old Benjamin Winfrey by the Militia, in February 1865. It appears that in that month two Militia men called at Winfrey's house in the night and represented that they had orders to take him to DeWitt. Winfrey was sick in bed at the time, but got up and clothed himself, believing that he had been sent for by Captain Morris Schnapp at DeWitt. When they got about three hundred yards east of the house, without a word of warning, they shot him four times before he fell. After he fell they fired five more shots at his head as they supposed, but when the wounded man was found by his friends, it proved that the shots that were fired after he fell went through Winfrey's cap that had fallen and dropped close to his head, it being night they mistook the cap for his head. Winfrey lived four days after being wounded. He was an inoffensive old gentleman about fifty years of age and crippled with the rheumatism. Captain Schnapp hearing of the affair investigated the case and found it was not his men who had murdered Winfrey. Had it been, Schnapp would have arrested them and had them tried by drum-head court martial."

References
  1. ↑ Donald Leroy Winfrey. Winfrey Research.
  2. ↑ History of Carroll County, 1882
    470, [Q:2].
  3. ↑ Dixie Painter. Dixie Painter. (Excerpts from the 1850 Carroll County Missouri Census)
    PRODIGY(R) interactive personal service 01/16/9, 3 7:10 PM, GENEALOGY, TOPIC: U. S. STATE RESOURCES, TIME: 01/16 11:19 AM, TO: JAMES WINFREY, From: DIXIE PAINTER, SUBJECT: MO-ARCHIVES, Hi Jim - I looked for the census first, did you find them.
  4.   John Merrill. Merrill Family. (Downloaded from ancestry.com).
  5. ↑ Gunshot Wounds to the Head
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