ADAH WINNET is descended from English ancestors, his grandfather, William Winnett, having been born in Liverpool, England. He was kidnapped in early boyhood, and carried to the American colonies, where he was bound out until twenty-one years of age. On arriving at mature age he came to Washington county, Penn., where he was married to Sally, daughter of John Strange. Both father and daughter were natives of England, and early settlers of Wilmington, Del. Mr. Winnett took a patent for a tract of land in Washington county, Penn., and made a home in what is now Fallowfield township. William Winnett was born in September, 1761, on the home farm in Fallowfield township, Washington Co., Penn. When a young man he was married to Rachel Young, who was born in 1766, in Washington county, a daughter of Lot Young, a pioneer farmer of Washington county. William Winnett was a cooper and farmer, and at one time owned 1,000 acres of land, but afterward suffered severe financial reverses. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. He died in 1861, followed by his wife in 1866, both becoming centenarians. The children of this hardy couple were born as follows: John (who died in 1886, in Guernsey county, Ohio), Benjamin (a blacksmith, who died in Guernsey county, Ohio), William (drowned in Brush creek about 1830), Nathan (a blacksmith, who died in 1884, in Illinois), Thomas (a cooper by trade, moved West and died August 15, 1891, in Walla Walla, State of Washington), Lot (deceased in November, 1890, in Fallowfield township), Laban (deceased in March, 1889), Sally (wife of James Smiley), Polly (unmarried, deceased in 1888), Naomi (deceased wife of William Ward, of Guernsey county, Ohio), Rhoda (deceased wife of Noah Hardrock), and Adah. Adah Winnett, youngest child of William and Rachel Winnett, was born in 1824, on the old place in Fallowfield township, Washington Co., Penn., and has always resided on the homestead. In 1849 he was united in marriage with Ellen Williams, a native of East Pike Run township, this county; her mother (Ruth Williams) was born in Maine, and settled in East Pike Run township many years ago, where she died in her eighty-fifth year. The home farm, which has been in the possession of the Winnett family for one hundred and fifty years, contains seventy- three acres of well-cultivated land. Adah Winnett is an ardent member of the Republican party, and in religious faith he and his wife are connected with the Ebenezer M. E. Church. The following children have been born to their union: Rachel, born March 24, 1850, died December 23, 1855; William, living in East Pike Run township, born March 29,1851; Samuel, born February 7, 1854, living in Allen township; Milton A., born June 8, 1856, living in East Pike Run township; Henry T., born June 8, 1858, living in Greene county, Penn.; Benjamin C., born October 6, 1860; John J., born October 31, 1862, died in infancy; Addison M., born September 1, 1864, living on the homestead; Titus F., born May 14, 1869, died in his eighteenth year, and Mary R., born May 11, 1871, who was married April 27, 1891, to John H. Winnett, of Washington county, Pennsylvania.

Text taken from page 1345 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed February 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published February 1997 on the Washington County, PA USGenWeb pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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