Winney Moore
Winney Moore was born in South Carolina about 1801. She was a daughter of Lewis Moore. Winney is the name the probate court wrote for her. The 1850 census taker wrote Wineferd, and she is also called Winifred. Her sister Jane was born in Georgia about 1806, so the family moved between the two states while the girls were small.
She married John Williams, a Georgia-born farmer about five years older than she was. The marriage is given as 1821. By 1827 they were in Alabama, where their son Chapman was born, and they settled in Butler County.
The census of 18 October 1850 found her at dwelling 232 with John and seven children: Chapman 23, Ellen 19, Elizabeth 18, James 13, Francis 11, Margaret 9 and Caroline 7. The enumerator gave her age as 29. It is clearly written and it is wrong. Ten years later the census gave her birth year as 1801, and the same Francis and Caroline were still with her. She was about twenty six when Chapman was born and about thirty when Ellen was.
Her sister Jane lived next door, at dwelling 231, as the wife of Asa Hinson. Another sister, Peggy, was married to Ambrose Smith, who held land near their father.
John Williams died before 15 December 1852, leaving a will. Four months after it was proved, the courthouse burned with the will and every paper of the estate inside it. The court reappointed the executor, Calvin D. Williams, with her brother-in-law Ambrose Smith again as his security.
She stayed on the land as a widow. The 1860 census of Precinct 2, Butler County, has W. Williams, born 1801 in South Carolina, keeping house with F. Williams, born 1839, and M. C. Williams, born 1843. The Greenville tract books record her own entry for public land in Section 30 of Township 8, Range 15, beside Francis M. Williams. Her son Chapman's homestead lay in Sections 29 and 30 of the same township when he died in 1887.
Her father died intestate in Butler County in 1862. On 17 June 1864 the sheriff, J. P. Routon, who was administering the estate, swore to the list of heirs. Winney was among them as the widow of John Williams. The estate had been appraised at $8,780, but much of it was paid in Confederate money, and in January 1868 it was reported insolvent. What, if anything, reached her the record does not say.
No record of her death has been found. Her dates are given as 1801 to 1867, and also 1866. Where she is buried is not known.
Her children carried her name. Her daughter Margaret Winaford, called Winny, lived until 1937 in Texas. Leathie Ellen Williams, probably her daughter, named a daughter S. Winniford Howell in 1855.
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Cite: Heirology, "Winney Moore (b. 1801)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/winney-moore-1801-63f20e.