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Marriage: Children:
  1. Charles Meldrum Winstead: Birth: 15 APR 1867 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 06 MAR 1938 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA

  2. Beulah Winstead: Birth: 28 NOV 1869 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 13 SEP 1870 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA

  3. Arthur Grandison Winstead: Birth: 23 NOV 1871 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 12 FEB 1923 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA

  4. Margaret Elizabeth Winstead: Birth: 15 JAN 1874 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 21 NOV 1960 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA

  5. James Clarence Winstead: Birth: 07 APR 1876 in Leasburg, Person Co, NC. Death: 27 MAY 1953 in Olive Hill, Person Co, NC

  6. Harry Wooding Winstead: Birth: 25 SEP 1879 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 28 MAR 1943 in Roxboro, Person Co, NC

  7. Albert Edwin Winstead: Birth: 27 OCT 1882 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 17 JUL 1888 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA

  8. Lula Belle Winstead: Birth: 04 FEB 1885 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA. Death: 13 JAN 1907 in Person Co, North Carolina, USA


Notes
a. Note:   Charles Sergeant Winstead married his first cousin Louise Sarah Winstead. Marriage bond lists him as Charles Winstead, Jr.
 Charles Sergeant Winstead was better known by his nickname of Hyco Charlie. I suppose the name was given to him due to the fact he owned land along the Hyco River. When he was drafted in the Civil War, he made this statement, "I will be damned if I'll walk through this war. If I can't take my horse, I will ride through it." They let him take his horse and he became a member of the Calvary for the next four years, and rode down three or four horses. He was described as a "hard fighting and hard drinking man, who neither feared God nor man."
 He fathered eight children by his wife, Louise. Hyco Charlie had a very disastrous fire which burned his house and everything in it except the family Bible, which Hyco Charlie would never have missed. The preacher in the community felt bad about this tragedy and rode around over the whole community, taking up a sizeable collection for the burned out family. When the good man presented this to Hyco Charlie, he was thanked by him in this manner: "I hope you wrote down the names of all who contributed." The Preacher replied, "Yes sir, and I suppose you are going to get on your horse and ride around and thank your good neighbors for their generosity." Mr. Winstead replied "Hell no, I'm going around and give every so and so his money back, Hyco Charlie isn't starving!" And he did just that.
  Frm article in "Heritage of Person County" written by Mary Linda Winstead Janke
  It also says "JR" on his tombstone. This is a mystery, as his father was John Meldrum Winstead. Below his dates are the words, "Old Confederate Soldier."


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