Helen Marr Winchester

Brief Life History of Helen Marr

When Helen Marr Winchester was born on 1 October 1812, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States, her father, Gen. James Winchester, was 60 and her mother, Susan Black, was 36. She died in 1880, in her hometown, at the age of 68.

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Family Time Line

Gen. James Winchester
1752–1826
Susan Black
1775–1864
Maria Eliza Winchester
1793–1846
Marcus Brutus Winchester
1796–1856
Cynthia Winchester
1799–1802
Selina Winchester
1800–1820
Lucilius Winchester
1800–1831
Elizabeth Caroline Winchester
1802–1827
Almira Winchester
1805–1884
Napoleon B. Winchester
1806–1824
Malvina Winchester Twin
1809–1809
Louisa Orville Winchester
1809–1888
Valerius Publesel Winchester
1810–1837
Helen Marr Winchester
1812–1880
James Martin Winchester
1816–1856
George Washington Winchester Sr
1822–1878
Caroline Betsy Ann Winchester
1831–

Sources (7)

  • Ellen W Winchester in household of Susan Winchester, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Helen Marr Winchester - birth-name: Helen Marr Winchester
  • Helen Marr Winchester, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from the city in Hampshire, so named from the addition of Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’) to the Romano-British name Venta, of disputed origin.

History: John Winchester was admitted a freeman in Brookline, MA, in 1637. Oliver Winchester (1810–80), owner of the arms company that produced the Winchester rifle, was his fifth-generation descendant, born in Boston.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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James and Susan Winchester Family Record of Births

James and Susan Winchester Family Record of Births Submitted by Karel Whyte [email protec …

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