When William Taylor Winstead was born on 16 March 1841, in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, his father, Alexander Taylor Winstead, was 23 and his mother, Priscilla Ann Trice, was 23. He married Elizabeth Frances Day on 21 December 1859, in Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Vanderburg, Webster, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 2 April 1886, in Webster, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Winstead Cemetery, Slaughters, Webster, Kentucky, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Historical Boundaries 1856: Hopkins, Kentucky, United States 1860: Webster, Kentucky, United States
English: habitational name, perhaps from Wanstead in Greater London (formerly Esses), recorded in Domesday Book as Wenesteda ‘site (Old English stede) by a mound (Old English wænn) or where wagons (Old English wǣn) are kept’, but more likely from Winestead in East Yorkshire, named from Old English wīf ‘wife’ or a female personal name Wīfa + stede ‘homestead’.
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