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Note: *spelling changed from Winningham to Winingham, possibly when Hance came to Texas
*according to oral family history: Hance was present during the Battle of Shiloh, 'tended the horses'. The family home was within 1-2 miles of the battle site. Hance's daughter Mary Ellen remembered standing on the front porch of their home, listening to the cannon and sounds of battle. Union soldiers were thought to have camped on their land, dubbed 'Stoney Lonesome' by a Union soldier far from home, trying to sleep on rocky ground, in the cold and rainy April weather.
Hance moved his family to Montague Co TX around 1870. Mary Ellen remembed the carpetbaggers who came to TN after the war. As her family crossed the Mississippi on a ferry or raft of some kind, Mary Ellen saw another ferry/raft carrying a family and their wagon, capsize; all were lost.
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