Winslow, Ezra - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Ezra Davis Winslow died at the home of his son in Fair 'Oaks, Aug. 18, 1917. He was born in North Carolina July 22, 1850, being the youngest of a large family. His widowed mother removed to Henry county, Indiana, while he was yet an infant. He entered the Union army while quite young and received his honorable discharge of the close of the war. He was united in marriage to Emma Jane Booe, of Fountain county, Indiana, on Feb. 1, 1872, who preceded him to the Great Reward May 13, 1908. To this union were born four children, Mrs. Jennie Barker and Joseph E. Winslow, of Fair Oaks, and Mrs. Sylvia Brouhard, of Shelby, Ind. Charles Edward died in infancy. He was again united in marriage to Mrs. Margaret Dodge, of Jasper county, in 1912, she preceding him on April 14, 1916. He united with the Church of Christ in Fountain county, Indiana, and upon the organization of the church at Fair Oaks entered his membership there. He was also a member of the K. of P. and Odd Fellow lodges. He leaves to mourn his departure besides the children mentioned above, one brother. Henry Winslow, of Greenfield, Ind., six grandchildren, several nephews and nieces and numerous friends. He was a good, kind and loving husband, enshrined in the hearts of his children as one whose thoughts were continually of them, whose love was always theirs and whose dear face and memory will not be effaced by the shadow of the valley of death nor dimmed by the flight of time, but will be ever brighter and brighter as the time approaches to meet with I him again in that bright home not made by hands eternal in the heavens. – kbz