John W. Winger

1824 - 1907  (83 years)

• Name	John W. Winger
  Born	29 Jan 1824	Bertie Township, Welland County, Ontario
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Jul 1907	Rainham Township, Haldimand County
  Person ID	I02275	Jacob and Barbara (Schenk) Hoover
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	Abraham Winger,   b. 1793, Rapho Township, Lancaster County, Pa. ,   d. Oct 1829  (Age 36 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Catherine Troup,   b. 1795
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	1816
  Family ID	F0166	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Johnston,   b. 21 Feb 1826, Bertie Township, Welland County, Ontario ,   d. 28 May 1907, Rainham Township, Haldimand County  (Age 81 years)
  Married	10 Feb 1846	Cayuga, Haldimand County
  Children	1. Benjamin Johnston Winger,   b. 29 Nov 1846,   d. 24 Mar 1925  (Age 78 years)  [Natural]   2. Jacob Winger,   b. 30 Jan 1849,   d. 31 May 1924  (Age 75 years)  [Natural]   3. Henry Winger,   b. 1 Mar 1853,   d. 6 Apr 1922  (Age 69 years)  [Natural]   4. John J. Winger,   b. 8 Apr 1855,   d. 14 Sep 1920  (Age 65 years)  [Natural]   5. George Winger,   b. 8 Apr 1855,   d. 6 Oct 1855  (Age 0 years)  [Natural]   6. Daniel Winger,   b. 12 Mar 1857,   d. 1932  (Age 74 years)  [Natural]   7. Catherine Winger,   b. 15 Feb 1859,   d. 16 Oct 1928  (Age 69 years)  [Natural]   8. Fannie Winger,   b. 25 Aug 1862,   d. 9 Feb 1933  (Age 70 years)  [Natural]   9. Jonas Winger,   b. 23 May 1863,   d. 21 Jun 1864  (Age 1 years)  [Natural]   10. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ann Winger,   b. 29 Mar 1865,   d. 21 Feb 1889  (Age 23 years)  [Natural]
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2014
  Family ID	F0138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From Fisherville Trinity Lutheran Cemetery Book: WINGER The Wingers who settled in Rainham and Walpole, coming here from Bertie Township, Welland County area, were all children of Abraham Winger and Catherine Troup (daughter of John Troup). They were of the Tunkard faith. They had 8 known children: Jacob (md. Elizabeth Benner, Elizabeth Smelser), Esther, David (md. Margaret Baxter), Abraham (md. Elizabeth Shoup), John (md. Elizabeth Johnston), and Peter (md Abigail Shoup). The Canada Company purchased a lot of land in Rainham from the Crown around 1837. Benjamin Troup, a cousin [should say brother] of Catherine Troup, and his wife Magdalena bought 400 acres from the Canada Company in 1847, being lots 5 and 6, concession 4, Rainham. They almost immediately turned the land over to Abraham Winger N ½ and Jacob Winger S ½. The Wingers discovered, however, that there were three families (Ullman, Nauman, Sitter) firmly entrenched on this property, having settled there in the mid 1830s while it was still Crown Land. The Wingers arranged to sell the property to these settlers. The Sitters on the N ½ , and John Nauman on the SW ¼ paid for their property in 1850, and Jacob Ullman on the SE ¼ signed a bond to purchase and pay for the land as soon as he had the money. This did not happen until 1863 when Jacob's son Benjamin finally paid for the property and quit claimed the farm over to his father all except for 2 acres sold to his brother-in-law Peter Phillips. So, technically, Jacob Ullman's SE ¼ farm was owned by Jacob Winger. He was the one who sold in 1849 the ½ acre lot to the Trustees of the Evangelical Church of German and Dutch (where Trinity cemetery is located) on land where Jacob Ullman had already established a family burial plot and where he allowed other burials to take place. By the wording on the 1849 deed, it is thought Jacob Ullman may also have allowed a small church, possibly a Union Church, to be built earlier on this property. Likely sometime after 1849, the first all Lutheran Church (Holy Ghost) was built on this site, a board and batten structure. John Winger was a member of the Tunker church, also his sons Benjamin, Henry and John; his wife Elizabeth was Baptist. His occupation farmer and beekeeper, thus the nickname "Honey John" Winger. He farmed in Rainham and North Cayuga Townships.