The Winings Klan
First Generation John Winings / Elizabeth Grider
Second Generation Daniel Winings / Rebecca Ricketts
Third Generation John Winings (Sr.) / Charlotte Boka
Fourth Generation John (Jack) Winings / Ella Tohill
Fifth Generation Rollo Winings / Lura Bacon
The following information was gleaned from my grandmother Lura Bacon Winings as a result of her actions to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). It was thoroughly researched and documented cir. 1965.
First Generation John Winings (1728-1832) married Elizabeth Grider (1744 - 1848)
John the youngest of three brothers, came with his parents from Germany to America when was five years old. One of his brother's name was Jacob. The name in the course of time has been slightly changed. Ross Winans of Baltimore, the millionaire inventor of the steamship and builder of the great Russian Railroads, was a direct descendent of one of these three German emigrants. The family settled in Delaware. When Jacob was a young mand he left Delaware and settled in Fayette County, PA. He was the father of nine boys and operated an iron plant.
John, youngest, was born in 1728, and lived to the great age of 104. He died in Indiana, in 1832. (More will be added later)
Children of John and Elizabeth Winings: Annie, Daniel, Abram, Jacob, John, Betsy, Lana, Polly, Peggy, and Sally (Not in the order of their births)
Both Daniel Winings and Abram Winings married sisters Rebecca Ricketts (1803 - 1885) and Sarah Ricketts (1808 - 1862). The sisters parents were Robert Ricketts of Welsh descent born in 1765 and Susan Wilson of Irish descent who was born in 1769.
Second Generation Daniel Winings (b 05-13-1798 - d 1881) married Rebecca Rickets (b 1803 - d 1895, daughter of Robert and Susan Wilson Ricketts)
Children of Daniel and Rebecca Winings: John (1822), Abram, Mary Ann, Mahala, Garrett, Sarah, and Robert
(The WILL of Daniel Winings recorded in the court house at /rising Sun, Indiana, in February 1874, has the children named as above. It is probated in 1881.)
Third Generation John WININGS (b 05-15-1822 Rising Sun, Ohio County, Indiana & d 08-26-1888, Lake City, Moultrie County, Illinois) married (m 11-08-1850 Peoria, IL) Charlotte Boka (believed to be German spelling of 'Charlottie Filwreka Louisa Elsiebine BACON' by http://www.harrold.org/family/d0002/g0000045.html) (b 1827 near Bremerhaven, Germany - d 1903)
Father: Daniel WININGS and Mother: Rebecca RICKETTS of John Winings, Sr.
Children of John (Sr. b 1820) and Charlotte Winings: Abram, Charles (02-1850), Garrett, William Robert, James Daniel, John Jackson, Henry A, Thomas Frederick, Charlotte
Fourth Generation John Jackson (Jack) Winings (b 1859 -d 1934) married (m 01-28-1883) Ella Tohill (b 1862 - d 1945)
Children: Frank, Rollo, Vernie, Abby, Lewis, Willard
Frank (1884 - 1960)
Fifth Generation Rollo Winings (b 03-27-1885 - d 197) married (m 02-14-1911) Lura Bacon (b 08-03-1889 – d 1988)
Children of Rollo Winings & Lura Bacon: Charles, Robert, Ruth E., Victor, Hester, Pauline, Albert, Howard
Ruth E Winings married Louis D Sharp:
Hester married George Swiney
Offspring of Hester Winings and George Swiney: Lauren, Lura K, George W (GW), [David B Walker son of Lura (Swiney) John Walker married Christine Seadschlag]
Howard Myron Winings married Evelyn Lillian Shafer (Daughter of Leslie Shafer & Ethel Murch)
Offspring: Robin, Donald, Jeanine (Feist)
