Winsor, George

  General Notes:

Oak Shade Cemetery is located in Marion, Linn Co., IA. The office is at 600 10 Ave. Marion, IA 52302 in the Community Building. Phone: 319-377-4846.
Directions to the cemetery: When coming in from Cedar Rapids on 7th Ave., turn right on 7th St, go 3 or 4 blocks to 3rd Ave.
There are two cemetery entrances. Instead of entering off 7th St. turn right onto 3rd Ave. There is an entrance on the left between 6th and 7th Streets.
Mary is in Lot 9, George Lot 10, Thomas Lot 1 and someone with the initial of "M" is in Lot 2 in the Pioneer Section of the cemetery.
To find George and Mary's stones drive down the road a little ways until you come to a tombstone on the left that is that of Lena May Baily.
Directly up from her is one marked Godfrey Hein. George and Mary are located across the road to the right of these two people under an old oak tree.
You could barely read the original name of Winsor on Mary's stone but someone had etched in the name again making it easy to identify.
There was not much identification left on her stone and nothing left on George's to identify it. The inlay apparently had crumbled and washed away over time.
George and Mary were members of the Episcopal Church.
They emigrated from England to Simcoe, Ontario, Canada about 1835, then to St. Charles, Kane Co., Illinois about 1850 and then to Spring Grove Twp., Linn Co., Iowa.
Latter Day Saints: Record submitted by Abram L. Winsor regarding the baptism of George states that his parents are Henry and Mary and that he died 1873-1874.
The Record that was extracted from actual records, Transcripts of Parish Register and Bishop's Transcripts Church of England. Parish Church of Slapton, Devon. CO52001; Film: 0933257.
The marriage records are from transcripts of the Parish Records and Bishop's Transcripts of the Church of England.
The original records are in the Exeter Public Library, Exeter and on microfilm through Salt Lake City, UT. Thomas Cole Couch and John Mardon were witnesses to the marriage.
From July 4, 1860 Census, Spring Grove Twp., Linn Co., Iowa , page 155 House #1100
George Winsor, 63, M, Farmer, b. England
Mary, 62, F, b. England
Thomas, 22, M, b. Canada

House #1111
James Winsor, 24, M, b. Canada
Catharine, 19, F, b. New York
Mary S., 1, F, b. Kansas

SLAPTON, DEVON CO., ENGLAND "Slapton, a pleasant village on the acclivity, rising from the central part of the coast of Start Bay, 6 miles SW by S of
Dartmouth, has in its parish 726 inhabitants, 3260 acres of tithe free land, and many scatte red houses, commanding fine views of the bay and coast.
On the beach is the Sands Hotel, from which visitors have a fine promenade at low water along the sands to within a mile of Start point.
The hotel is elegantly fitted up for the accommodation of visitors, and about 200 yards from the beach is a long fresh-water lake of about 300 acres,
called the Ley or Hey, well stocked with fish and wild fowl, and divided from the sea in some places only by a ridge called the Long Sand.
The manor is dismembered, and was formerly held of the See of Exeter, by the service of being steward at the bishop's installation feast.
Sir R. L. Newman, Bart., Major Bent, and the Paige, Tucker, Holdsworth, Bastard, Wise, Wakeham, and other families have freehold estates here.
Pole or Poole Priory, in this parish, was long the seat of the Brians, Ameridiths, and Hawkins, and now belongs to Mr. Paige.
The ruins of the old mansion were removed about 1800, except the lofty tower, which stands in the garden.
The Church (St. Mary,) is an ancient structure, with a tower and five bells.
The screen is beautiful, and the clustered columns have foliated capitals.
The living is a perpetual curacy, valued at only L 96 per annum, arising from a modus of L15, and land here and at Halwell.
Wm. Page , Esq., is the patron, and the Rev. T. G. Dickenson, M.A., is the incumbent..." (From White's Devonshire Directory of 1850).
A parish in Coleridge Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes and the Docese of Exeter.

August 1, 1870 City of Marion, Linn Co., Iowa Census listed the following: #19.
George Windsor, 75, M, W, without occupation, 1600 Land Value, 300 personal value, England
Margret, 32, F, W, without Occupation, England
As per notes from Ann Rogers: George died in Adams Co., IA in the home of James Richard Winsor, George's son.

George married Mary Couch, daughter of William Couch and Mrs. Mary Cole, on May 9, 1819 in Stoke Fleming, Devon, England. (Mary Couch was born on July 2, 1787 in Stoke Fleming, Devon, England, christened on January 4, 1797 in Stoke Fleming, Devon, England, died on September 11, 1860 in Marion, Linn, Iowa, USA and was buried in Marion, Linn Co., Iowa, USA.)