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Note: The following is an interview with Nancy Winstead - Oct, 1988:
"My Grandma Allen was a good cook. I used to love to go spend the night with them. She made the best little bitty biscuits. My Granddaddy, Clarence Winstead, when we would go spend the night, would try to avoid all of us screaming kids. After supper, he would light the lantern, get a Sears catalog, and go sit in the outhouse for hours at a time We would ask MaMa Winstead (We called her MaMa) 'Where has Granddaddy gone?' And she would smile and say 'To the John with his Sears catalog.' Whenever we would spend Saturday night with him, we would have to go to Concord Meth. Church on Sunday morning. That's where I was sprinkled (Christened) when I was 9 years old. I remember crying because the preacher got water all over my new bow. Granddaddy would not let us talk much at the table. We had to say yes sir, no sir, please and thank you. My Granddaddy Allen was in the warehouse business and always dressed nice, with a black bowtie. My Granddaddy Winstead was a farmer, I guess. My Grandma Hattie Winstead died in 1964 at Aunt Eunice's house. Leroy and I went down there. But she had previously been in a rest home in Roxboro, because Bill and I went to see her. I remember my daddy, Roy C. Winstead, Sr, would move us around a lot, to different schools. He would always be trying new jobs. We lived in one little house after another, in Person County. We even lived on Uncle Harvey's farm and tried farming for a while. I was in about the 2nd grade then. We moved to Mebane when I was about 10. My mama (Ruth ALLEN Winstead) was a librarian. When Leroy and I got married, she was doing alterations for J.C. Penney. She was also a substitute teacher and librarian at Pleasant Grove school. She got into the rooming house business in Burlington around 1959. Her first rooming house is where the main post office is now. My daddy ran off in 1947 to Cleveland, OH. They told us he was in a hotel room and died from a gas leak. We heard that he had pneumonia and was so weak that when he got up to get out of the room, he collapsed. Bill went up there to get him, and the body was taken to my Grandma Winstead's house. My mother and father were not living together at that time. His parents were the ones that buried him and got his insurance and everything. My Mama got nothing. I got married in Oct 1943 and Daddy left home the next month. He helped me fix up our first apartment on Edgewood Ave. Daddy liked Bill a lot, but he would warn him to always be good to me. Then he would warn me, "That's a damn Yankee, and you best be wary of him." My Daddy and I were always real close. He would take me to movies and places. My Mama would always take me to church and leave me.
Dock Allen was my grandfather. He would always come see us in his horse and buggy and spend the night. He would bring Edna and me baskets of fruit. He would leave early the next morning for a 13-mile trip home. On one occasion, we all went to my grandparent's house for the weekend. I was only 5 years old at the time, but I remember Grandpa Allen's death very well. All of us had just finished with Sunday dinner. Grandpa got up and went in the bedroom to get a friend a cigar. While he was reaching over the dresser, he fell dead from a heart attack. The family called in the funeral director and he was embalmed right there in the house. The funeral was in the living room and as they brought him down the hallway, someone was playing the organ. They buried him outside in the Allen family cemetery.
Dock's widow, my grandma Allen, lived on for some years. She would come and stay with us for weeks at a time. I remember her farm always had a lot of flowers and a large flock of guineas. She always had time to tell us a story, or bake cookies, or make popcorn. She never got in hurry. She would put on her bonnet and take us for a walk to visit sick folks. She died about the time Mary Ann Barker was born. She died in Person Co. hospital. She was anemic and was about 74 years old. She never used to get excited or upset. We always had strawberries for our birthdays because they were both in May. She would make tea cakes. Whenever any of the grandchildren did something bad, she would put them in the darkened living room and make them pray.
The old Allen home place was one of the first in the area with an old wind up telephone that hung on the wall. It also had a carbide house out back that provided lights for the entire farm. It had a big well on the back porch that you could wind the water buckets up on. That all burnt up years ago."
Nancy married Leroy Bowden TWICE. (And they were divorced twice)
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Burlington - Nancy Winstead King, 89, went home to be with the Lord Friday, October 24, 2014 at Alamance Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. A native of Person County, she was born May 23, 1925 to the late Roy Caviness Winstead, Sr. and Mary Ruth Allen Winstead.
Nancy was a member of People's Memorial Christian Church. She faithfully served her community volunteering for over 15 years for Hospice and White Oak Manor.
She is survived by her daughter, Rose-Marie Faucette and husband Dennis of Burlington; sons, William Bradford Washburn, Jr. and wife Sheila of Wake Forest, Robert E. Washburn of the home, Kenneth James Bowden and wife Mary of Burlington; fourteen grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Sandra Pulliam; great granddaughter, Payton Brook Clark; sisters, Edna Greeson, Patricia Davis and Rosa Hattie Banther and brother, Roy C. Winstead, Jr.
A service to celebrate her life will be held 2:00 PM on Monday, October 27, 2014 at People's Memorial Christian Church by Pastor John Shields and Rev. David Schaffer with the burial to follow at Alamance Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church and other times at the daughter, Rosa-Marie's home in Burlington.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care of Alamance-Caswell, 914 Chapel Hill Rd., Burlington, NC 27217.
- See more at: http://www.lowefuneralhome.com/obituary/Nancy-Winstead-King/Burlington-NC/1445223#sthash.NgoULgZH.dpuf
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She is buried at Alamance Memorial Park - Section PEACE 7C, Lot 310, Grave 2
Buried with her are the ashes of her sister, Patricia. Next to her is her daughter, Sandra, who is buried with the ashes of her husband, William Pulliam.
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