Jonathan Wynn

• General Notes
  • 1830, Morgan census shows Jonathan Wynn, age between 40 & 50, wife
    between 40 & 50; children: 5 males, 3 under 20 and 2 over 20; 7 females,
    all under 20 yrs. He was a farmer and lived near Rt 129, St. Charles,
    which is in Section 2 of Morgan Twp.
    Chancery Records book 6, page 226 & 227---1836
    Elizabeth Wynn - widow of Jonathan Wynn
    Children: Warner Wynn, John Wynn, Mary Wynn m. John McCann, Ann Wynn m.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Hiram Thompson, Nimrod Wynn, Sarah Wynn m. Nelson Clark, Elizabeth
    (minor), Cathrine (minor) Jonathan (minor) Nancy (minor) Hannah (minor)
    
    
    
    
    
    
    ( I have a copy of this)
    Jonathan WYNN & Sarah Ann TOTTEN
    According to his gravestone, Jonathan WYNN was born in 1828 in Ohio.1
    Other recordsindicate that he was born on 16 Oct 1825 in Morgan Twp.,
    Butler Co., OH.2   His census records for 1850 give his age as 26
    (born-1824); 1860 gives 34 (born-1826); and 1870 gives his age as 46
    (born-1824), so 16 Oct 1825 may be correct.
    Jonathan WYNN, age twenty-six, was listed in the 1850 Ohio Census in
    Butler County, Morgan Township3 , with wife Rachel Jane, twenty-three 4 ,
    
    
    
    
    
    
    andone year old daughter, Mary Eliza.(beth). He was working as a farmer,
    but noreal estate value was listed. Living with them was Elizabeth
    GROOMS, thirty-three, and her daughter, three-year-old Johanna5. While
    their relationship toJonathan and Rachel is unknown, it seems likely
    that Elizabeth was either Jonathan or Rachel's widowed sister.
    Jonathan WYNN married Rachel Jane LLOYD on18 Jun 1848 6 in Morgan Twp.,
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Butler Co., OH. Daughter Mary Eliza.(beth?) was born in 1849. Their son,
    W. Benjamin WYNN was born 3 Aug 1849 and died 3 July 1851. He was buried
    at Shandon Cemetery in Butler County. His gravestone tells of his short
    
    
    
    
    
    
    life: "W. Benjamin WYNN, age 1y. 1m. Son of Jonathan and Rachel.""7Rachel
    Jane and Mary Eliza.(beth?) disappeared sometime after her young son's
    death in 1851 and before Jonathan's second marriage in May 1853. I found
    no death or cemetery records to learn what happened to Jonathan's wife
    and daughter, I but presume they died, perhaps in one of the Cholera
    epidemics that swept the region about that time.
    Jonathan's sister, Sarah, was born in OH in 1820 and married Jacob
    TIMBREL 27 Sep 1838 in Butler Co., OH. They had a son, Lot TIMBREL born 9
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Jan 1845. Sarah died in March 1850 in Granville Twp., Mercer Co., OH.
    Sarah WYNN's husband, Jacob TIMBREL was born 24 Feb 1814 in OH. He died
    
    
    
    
    
    
    24 Aug 1883 in Peoria, Mahaska Co., IA, and was buried on 26Aug 1883 in
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Granville Cemetery, Mahaska Co., IA. Sarah's death left him a widower
    with a small son, so he wasted little time in finding a wife. Only four
    
    
    
    
    
    
    months later, 36 year-old Jacob married 17 year-old Mary Jane TOTTEN on 1
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Jul 1850 in Mercer Co., OH.
    Mary Jane had a younger sister, Sarah Ann, so when Jonathan lost his
    first young wife and children, his brother-in-law, Jacob TIMBREL,
    introduced Jonathan to his young sister-in-law. Jonathan, 27, married
    Sarah Ann TOTTEN on 29 May 1853, in Mercer Co., OH, 8 just seven days
    past her 16th birthday.9
    Family Records indicate that Jonathan and Sarah Ann WYNN emigrated to
    Iowa from Ohio in October or November 1856. The first record of them in
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Iowa lists them living in Richland Township, in Mahaska County, 24 July
    
    
    
    
    
    
    1860, with Peoria given as theirPost Office. Jonathan, then age
    thirty-four was working as a Farm Laborer, and had a personal property
    value of $150, but showed no real estate holdings. Records from both the
    1860 and 1870 census, as well as a search for land records at the Iowa
    Historical Society, show no sign that Jonathan ever owned land in Iowa.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Sarah Ann was listed as nineteen, and a housewife. Jonathan and Sarah Ann
    had a daughter, Mary Ann, listed as three years old, who was born in
    Iowa, which indicates were in Iowa since at least July 1857. Sons were
    listed as Chas. W., age one, who would be Wilson, and a one month old,
    (Doug) who was then u