Richard Edgar Wynn
Richard Edgar Wynn was born in Alachua County, Florida more than 159 years ago on January 12th 1862 to his Father, Richard Edgar Wynn Sr. and Mother, Nancy Abigail Sapp.
Interesting events that occurred around the World during Richard Edgars birth year of 1862 included.
• On February 6th, 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.
• On February 20th, 1862 William Wallace Lincoln, Son of Abraham Lincoln, dies of typhoid fever.
• On March 31st, 1862 Victor Hugo's epic French historical novel Les Misérables begins publication in Brussels.
• On May 5th, 1862 in the Battle of Puebla, Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza defeats the French Army; commemorated each year as Cinco de Mayo
• On July 24th, 1862 eighth ever President of the United States, Martin Van Buren passes away @ Kinderhook, New York from the effects of bronchial asthma and heart failure. He was 79.
• On August 14th, 1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln meets with a group of prominent African-Americans, the first time an American President had done so. He suggests that Black people should migrate to Africa or to Central America but his advice is rejected.
• On September 17th, 1862 in the Battle of Antietam. Union forces strategically defeat Confederate troops at Sharpsburg, Maryland. It is the bloodiest day in U.S. history, with over 22,000 casualties.
• On December 1st, 1862 in his State of the Union address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending (s)lavery, as he ordered ten weeks earlier in his Emancipation Proclamation.
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Richard Edgar was the youngest of four children born to his parents. Chronologically his elder siblings, all Sisters were Sarah, Zilpha Abigail, and Lucetta "Lucy" Wynn.
Wynn Patriarch, Richard Edgar the Senior supports his family in the field of farming.
In July of 1862, this evenings honoree's Father enlisted in the CSA and the 7th Regiment Florida Infantry with Captain Phillip Dudley's Company. The units nickname was the "Alachua Rangers" The 7th took an active part in the arduous campaigns of the Army from Chickamauga to Nashville then fought its last battle at Bentonville in North Carolina.
Sorrowfully Richard Edgar the Senior would lose his life prior to having taken part in any of the above mentioned battles. According to a widows pension request, at just 27 years old he died of kidney trouble in a Knoxville, Tennessee hospital on November 19th, 1862. At the time of his death, tonight's featured subject was only 10 months old.
By the year 1880, Richard Edgar, an 18 year old farm laborer resided with his Mother, Nancy Abigail and Sister, Lucy Wynn.
This evenings honoree, a harvester by trade would marry his teenage bride, Eva Fussell in September of 1893 but sadly, for reasons unknown, dies 11 short months later at the age of 32 on Saturday August 11th, 1894. Mr. Wynn would leave behind his newlywed bride who by this time was expecting their first child. His Daughter, Edna was born nearly two months after Richard Edgar's passing on Tuesday December 4th, 1894.
Richard Edgar Wynn... Beloved Husband, Father, and Son.
Before & After
☆☆ Richard Edgar's Wife, Eva would eventually remarry ( Clarence W. Williams ) and have three other children, Clarence "Buck", Delma, and Clyde Williams. She passed away in Levy County, Florida at the age of eighty six on March 7th, 1963.
☆☆ Richard Edgar's Daughter, Edna married John Lanier McCall with whom she had two children ( Jack Richard, and Madras Odessa )
in a union that lasted for more than a half century. She would enjoy a full life before taking her last breath on February 21st, 1989. She was ninety four.
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Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we collectively remember and recall tonight's honoree and his regretfully short time on this Earth.
Have a wonderful work weeks end, followed by a relaxing weekend to come, and until we meet again.