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Show A Worthy Ancestor. A letter from Zanesville, Ohio, gives an account of the death of a remarkable woman, at the ripe age of eighty-six years and six months. She was born in Liverpool, England, and was brought by her parents to Philadelphia about eighty years ago. John Mayer, her father, was a Scotchman and a soldier in the War of 1812. In 1809 she was married to Captain John S. Winn, who commanded a company in the War of 1812 and died in 1843. She gave birth to twenty-one children, singly; raised eighteen and twelve are now living. Her grand great-grand and great-great-grand children number about two hundred. She had two sons in the Mexican War. Quite a number of her sons, and sons-in-law were in the Union Army during the last war, by which three of them lost their lives. For about seventy-five years she has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and died rejoicing in the hope of salvation by and through the blood of Christ. She leaves numerous friends and no enemies. Geo. (George) A. M. Winn, of Zanesville, is the oldest of her family, and he is a great-grandfather. |