STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, January 1, 1896, page 1, column 6, 7.

ABNER WINSOR, 29 Sep 1812 - 28 Dec 1895

   Abner Winsor was born in Otsego county, New York, Sept. 29, 1812, 
and died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 
Orson W. Fisk, near Pleasant Lake, Ind., Dec. 28, 1895, aged 83 
years, 2 months and 28 days.

Mr. Winsor's parents, Joseph Winsor and Phebe Harris, were both 
natives of Rhode Island, from which state they removed soon after 
their marriage, to New York, where their son Abner was born and 
reared on a farm.  He was the youngest of a family of nine children 
and survived them all except one brother who resides at Fort Plain, 
N. Y., at the age of 87 years, and was too feeble to attend the 
funeral.  In May, 1835, Mr. Winsor then a young man of twenty-two 
years, started out to carve for himself a fortune in the great west.  
He traveled by lake to Detroit and from there rode a pony to 
Chicago, then a village of about 400 inhabitants.  From there he 
journeyed to Danville, Ill., and thence up the Wabash river, 
reaching Ft., Wayne on July 4th, from which place he returned to New 
York without having purchased any land, though an exploration of the 
country with a view of making purchasers was the object of his trip.  
After a few weeks spent at his parents' home, he again came west, 
this time by way of Toledo and Ft. Defiance to Ft. Wayne, and from 
there by an Indian trail to Pleasant Lake.  In the vicinity of this 
beautiful body of water he resolved to purchase land and locate.  
Accordingly, after looking over various tracts he returned to Ft. 
Wayne and entered between 600 and 700 acres of choice land in 
Steuben township, most of which he still owned at the time of his 
death.  After entering this land, Mr. Winsor again returned to his 
old home in the east, where he was married to Miss Lucinda Robinson, 
on the 7th day of January, 1836.  Accompanied by his young wife, then 
only sixteen years of age, Mr. Winsor, on the twenty-ninth of that 
month, started through snow and frost for his future home in Steuben 
county, reaching his destination after an adventurous overland trip 
of thirty-one days.  On the present site of the farm residence of 
Emmet Croxton at what has long been know as Winsor's Corners, he 
promptly erected a "board shanty," as he himself expressed it, where 
he and his wife at once commenced keeping house.
   To them was born but one child, their daughter, Mary Estella, who 
was first married to Orlando P. Fisk, by whom she had six children, 
three sons and three daughters, and on his death she was again 
married to his brother, Orson W. Fisk, to whom has been born one 
child, a daughter, all of whom, with the mother are still living.  
Mr. Winsor's faithful wife, who had shared with him the struggles of 
a pioneer's life, died on Feb. 14, 1873, and though a very domestic 
man in all his habits and tastes, Mr. Winsor never remarried, but 
devoted his life to providing a future competency for his daughter 
and his granddhildren for whom he had a very warm affection.
   Mr. Winsor was a man of excellent judgment and sound views, and 
his whole life was characterized by those sturdy habits and 
characteristics which contribute so largely to success in all the 
pursuits of life.  Honesty, punctuality and exactness marked his 
whole career.  In all his dealings he was just; in his intercourse 
with his neighbors, he was kind and obliging; and for his family, 
his daughter and his daughter's children, he cherished the warmest 
affection.  In religious belief he was a Universalist, and attended 
and liberally supported the services of that church, and died in the 
faith in which he so nobly lived.
   Funeral services were held on Monday, Dec. 30, 1895, at 10 a.m., 
at the Universalist church in Pleasant Lake, Rev. H. Lewellen, of 
Ft. Wayne, preaching the sermon.  Though a snow storm raged all day 
Monday with great severity, a large congregation of friends and 
neighbors attended (showing) their high regard for Mr. Winsor's 
memory by their presence.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   Abner Winsor, 29 Sep 1812- 28 Dec 1895, son of Joseph and Phebe 
(Harris) Winsor, married Lucinda (Robinson) Winsor, born about 10 
Mar 1820, died 14 Feb 1873, aged 52 years, 11 months and 4 days.
   Sister:  Phebe (Winsor) Burch, 06 Jun 1810, came to Steuben 
county about 1845, died 09 Apr 1895, ad Owatonna, Minn.
   Daughter:  Mary Estella (Winsor) Fisk, 22 Jul 1845 - 17 Feb 1913, 
married 1st, Orland Porter Fisk, born about 02 Nov 1838, died 29 Jul 
1881, aged 42 years, 8 months and 27 days.  She married 2nd, Orson 
Wyman Fisk, born about 05 Apr 1841 - 16 Apr 1925, aged 84 years and 
11 days.

All of the above except Phebe Burch are buried at Circle Hill 
Cemetery, Angola, Indiana, per "Cemeteries of Steuben Co., Ind., 
1990" by Audree Siebel Lewis, Vol. I, page 635; Vol. II, page 1975.

Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net