George W. Wynkoop.
George W. Wynkoop.

742                          HISTORY OF THE LOWER SHENANDOAH VALLEY.

    GEORGE W. WYNKOOP, farmer, P. O. Berryville, Clarke Co., Va., son of Richard A. and Mary F. Wynkoop, was born in Loudoun county, Va., in 1835. His parents were natives of that county, and had eleven children, eight of whom are living: Albert J., John W., James M., Thomas H., Eliza J., Catherine E., wife of Samuel T. Wynkoop, of Loudoun county, Mary F., Hannah A., wife of the Rev. James H. Boyd, of Roanoke, Va. Those dead are: Martha E., wife of Samuel E. Boyd of Clarke county, Va., and Richard who was wounded while in the Confederate service, but died some months after of consumption. Their father died in 1867, at the age of sixty-five years, and their mother is still living at the age of seventy-eight years.
    George W. was married in 1861, to Susan A., daughter of Benjamin and Mary Saunders, of Loudoun county, Va., and by this union there have been born to them ten children, four of whom died within eight days, of diphtheria. Those living are: Mary F. (wife of Benjamin B. Parker), George W., William A., Charles T., Herbert M., and Norman B. Mr. Wynkoop learned the stone-mason's trade, which he followed till about fif-

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teen years ago, since which time he has been engaged in farming. In August, 1878, he purchased the farm where he resides, of 206� acres, upon which he has built an elegant brick dwelling and other good substantial buildings. During the war he enlisted in the Sixth Virginia Cavalry, in which he served ten months and was discharged on account of wounds received, and from which he has never fully recovered. Mr. Wynkoop is well known for his untiring industry. After his return from the army, pierced with a bullet in his breast and his right arm in a sling, he cut off a small field of corn with his left hand and built a pair of stills, with a chimney twenty-five feet high, all with his left hand, and thus by his perseverance and industry he has risen from very humble circumstances to that of competency. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.


Source:

Norris, J. E., [Editor] "George W. Wynkoop," History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke, Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time; Geological Features; a Description of Their Historic and Interesting Localities; Cities, Towns and Villages; Portraits of Some of the Prominent Men, and Biographies of Many of the Representative Citizens, Chicago, A. Warner & Co., 1890, pp. 742-743.

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