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Father Winter
In 1816 or 1817 he sold his property at Beechwood (when the name was condensed to a single word, is uncertain), and bought a farm of several hundred acres on the border of the village of Warren. This was crossed by a stream, about the size of the Raisin at Addison. known afterwards as Winter's Run, emptying into the Alleghany at Warren. He there erected another saw-mill and grist-mill. Had his family retained that farm until this time, his descendants might have been millionaires; the land now being covered with oil derricks. *
* In 1875, Mrs. Elliot—a grand-daughter—visited the old place at Wavren. She found the old house still standing, but the mills were gone. She found one of the mill-stones over a well in the neigh-borhood-the hole in the center being just right for the wooden pump-and the other nearly buried in the dirt where it had been for years.
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