Town Named For J N Winters Fort Worth Real Estate Pioneer
John Nichols Winters a veteran Fort Worth real estate man of over 30 years in North and West Texas. Born near Rockport Indiana November 20 1858 son of J C Winters and Mary Brown. He taught eight years before moving to Fort Worth in 1894 to enter real estate. A Republican and Magnolia Church member he married Alice Birvins in 1886 and had five children Jet C Oliver Una Ivy and Una.
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Capt
B. B. Paddock
History of
Texas
John Nichols Winters
Fort Worth
Mr. Winters
Rockport
Indiana
J. C. and
Mary (Brown) Winters
Ohio
Sulphus Springs
Sulpher Springs
Ballinger
West Texas
Magnolia Christian Church
Alice Birvins
Jet
Oliver
Una
Ivy
Winters town name origin from cowboy John Mackey
Cowboy John Mackey who came from Georgia on March 12 1889 with ten dollars and a railroad ticket suggested the name Winters. He worked on a Paint Rock ranch for twenty dollars a month saved wages rented land near Winters, hauled lumber for a schoolhouse, married Carrie Mc Camey in 1894, homesteaded in Texas, moved to Norton in 1896 and died June 6 1964 at ninety four in Winters Hospital.
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Slaughter
Carrie McCamey
Texas
Winters Texas Growth From Murray Additions 1899 1909
Winters Texas developed without a formal townsite with the J W Murray addition laid out on Oct 30 1899 and successive Murray West and Murray East additions in 1901. Growth continued with Dale and School additions in 1906 Dale West and other tracts in 1908 and 1909. The first train arrived in 1909 sparking land purchases and tax headaches from unclaimed lots.
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Winters
Texas Land Office
Ballinger
J. W. Murray
Murray
Winters State Bank
Murray West
Murray East
Bahlman Jewelers
Pierce
Northview
College View Heights
Winters Named After 1890 Vote in Bluff Creek Valley
The Winters area developed from a 1880s farming settlement into a town by 1890 with J N Winters as land agent. The name Winters won a ballot vote over Wintersville, a one room schoolhouse, a general store, a post office, early churches including Bethel Baptist and First Methodist, doctors, gins, blacksmiths, livery stables, and a growing civic life shaped by families such as the Currys, Davises, Browns, and others.
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Winters
Bluff Creek
C.N. Currys
Randall Davises
John T. Browns
J.N. Winters
Runnels City
First Baptist Church
Arch Cochran
Masonic Lodge
Higdon
Irvin Brown
Will Murray
Huffman House
Shirley Howard
Earl Edwards
W.T. Barrett
Bethel Baptist
First Baptist
J.W. George
First Methodist Church
George D. Wilson
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McDonald Townsend
Tom Smith
Robert Cooke
C.L. Graham
Whitewright
Higginbotham Lumber Company
Rhuebottom
Wintersville
I.M. Barton
W.H. Rodgers
Georgia Adams
L.N. Pike
Ollie Meeks
Church of Christ
John Eoff
M. S. Smith
J. S. Hall
W. W. Hall
E.H. Sherrill
Tommie
Helen Sherrill
W. F. Hertel
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Alderman-Cave Milling & Graig Co
Conch Lumber Company
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St. John’s Lutheran Church
Fred Tinkle
Foster-Lindsey
Tom Fannin
Albert Roberts
Court Meeks
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Heidenheimer's
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