"Mr. Fayette Winn Dead. Mr. Fayette Winn, one of the best and best-known men of the county, dropped dead at his home near Bruce Monday. He was planting corn and suddenly fell to the earth and died instantly. It is supposed that heart disease caused his death.
"Few men in Barren county were more sincerely esteemed than Mr. M. D. L. Winn, or, as he was known among his friends, Fayette Winn. He was one of the best, truest and bravest of men, and at the same time one of the most modest, and almost as timid as a woman. He was a Confederate soldier, and one of the bravest of the brave. During the war he received a severe wound in the thigh, and this has caused him more orless annoyance ever since. It is suspected that this was possibly one of the indirect causes of his death.
"His was a gallant and gentle spirit, and he was a gentleman in the highest and best since [sic] of the word. A good man and true has gone to his reward.
"--- the family burying-ground on the farm of Mr. Jonathan Jewell, Tuesday morning last at nine o'clock, by the Gen. Jos. H. Lewis Camp of Confederate Veterans, after appropriate funeral services by Revs. James Chenault, of the Baptist denomination - of which church Mr. Winn had been a faithful member for more than a generation."
Jewell-Harston Cemetery
Winn, M. D. L. - 26 May 1830 - 2 May 1898.
Glasgow (KY) Times, 5 May 1898. |
