Union Cemetery

Winter, Nimrod

BORN: 1835
BORN IN: England
DIED: 1/29/1887
AGED: 52
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Carpenter

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
OBITUARY ---------------

MR NIMROD WINTER

San Mateo Co Times and Gazette

February 5, 1887

Mr. Nimrod Winter died last Saturday morning of cancer of the stomach, after a long and painful illness, born with uncomplaining fortitude. Mr. Winter was born in Wells, Somersetshire, England, and was 51 years, 1 month and 27 days old. He came to the United States in 1870 and went to Chicago just after the great fire of October 1871. He came to California in 1871 and worked in the Palace hotel, coming to Redwood City four years ago last June. Hc has worked in this community ever since winning the esteem of both employers and employed. Hc leaves a widow and five grown children, three young men and two young ladies. He was a member of the Congregational Church, of the Workmen, and of the United Friends of the Pacific.

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