| Name |
Powers, Winefred |
| Birth |
31 Mar 1831 |
Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland  |
| Gender |
Female |
 Baptism |
Aft 31 Mar 1831 |
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| Immigration |
Abt 1849 |
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| Immigration |
17 Jan 1850 |
| Actual ship and arrival documentation still eludes search. |
- 1850 In the Outagamie County Pioneer Record page 83 about Daniel Ryan mentions Winifred arrived in the US on Jan 17, 1850.
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| 1850 Census |
Abt Jun 1850 |
Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
| page 192 |
- 1850 Census Chicopee, MA page 192/193, Film # 443538; Listed living with her aunt and family. Winifred Powers a ge 18 born in Ireland living with family of Catherine Cox age 55, Patrick Cox age 19, Mary Cox age 17, Edward Cox age15, Thomas Cox age 10 and a Catherine Naughton age 18.
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| Occupation |
Aft 6 Aug 1856 |
| Home Maker |
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| 1860 Census |
1860 |
Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
| Page 253, line 05 |
- Listed living with husband and 1 child, listed age as 29, born in Ireland.
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1860 Census Buchanan page 253
Outagamie County, Wisconsin |
| 1870 Census |
1870 |
Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
| Page |
- Listed living with husband and 7 children. Cannot read or write English. Listed age as 39.
Buchanan, Wi Page 9;
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1870 Census Buchanan page 09
Outagamie County, Wisconsin |
| 1880 Census |
1880 |
Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
| Page 09 |
- Listed living with husband and 8 childre n, Listed age as 49, born in Ireland
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1880 Census Buchanan ED116 page 09
Outagamie County, Wisconsin |
| Letter |
15 Mar 1882 |
| Letter from Katherine Cox to Winifred Ryan |
- This letter has been passed down from Winifred Powers Ryan's to her descendants. With a bit of research, we are able to identify a few of the persons mentioned in the letter. This is also one of the strongest pieces of "evidence" that Winifred's mother, Mary Cox, was the sister to Patrick Cox, who also settled in Holland town in the late 1850's. Winifred is listed in the 1850 Census in Chicopee, Massachusetts, age 18, living with Catharine Cox and her children. They would be her Aunt and cousins.
The letter writer would most likely be Katherine Cox, born about 1854 in Connecticut, daughter of Patrick Cox (born 1831, son of Patrick Cox born 1788) and Alice McDonald. This Patrick stayed on the East Coast and is found in the 1880 Census in Waterbury, Connecticut, listed as a Liquor Dealer with his daughter Katie (24) and son William (19)
Katherine doesn't mention the name of her husband in the letter and more research is needed to find her marriage record.
The Ella and Katie Ringrose mentioned in the letter would be Katherine "Katie" Ringrose born Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut, and her sister Ellen Ringrose born about December 1854 in Greenville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. These two sisters would have been 1st cousins, once removed of Winifred (Powers) Ryan. Their mother was Anne (Cox) Ringrose (1818-1904) and their father Maurice Ringrose (1820-1882). The Ringrose family farmed in Greenville in Outagamie County until about 1880 when they moved to Aberdeen, South Dakota and became one of the founding families of that town.
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Ryan, Winifred
1882 Letter from cousin, probably Katherine Cox. |
| News Mention |
12 Jun 1896 |
- 1896 Kaukauna Sun dated 6/12/1896; Mrs D. Ryan spent Sunday at the ho me of her son T.H. Ryan of Appleton.
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| 1900 Census |
1900 |
Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
| Page 16a |
- Listed living with husband at sons home. Listed born March 1831 in Ireland. Immigrated in 1850. 8 childr en 7 alive. age 69
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| News Mention |
4 Oct 1901 |
| Kaukauna Sun |
- 1901 Kaukauna Sun dated 10/04/1901; Dr. and Mrs M.C. Ryan moved this we ek to Milwaukee where they will make their home on 3rd St. They were accom panied by Mrs. Ryan Sr. who will make a short stay with them. Dr. Ryan wi ll attend Medical College in that city.
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| News Mention |
27 Mar 1903 |
| Kaukauna Sun |
- 1903 Kaukauna Sun dated 3/27/1903; Mrs D. Ryan is seriously ill with rheumatism.
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| Death Record - Church |
16 Oct 1903 |
- 1903 St. Mary's Catholic Church Kaukauna Death records Winifred Ryan a ge 72 died oct 16, buried Oct 19.
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| Death Record - Civil |
16 Oct 1903 |
- 1903 Wisconsin Outagamie County Death records Vol 5 page 269, rec# 2914; W inifred Ryan born Powers died on 10/16/1903 in Buchanan. Daughter of Mart in Powers born in Ireland. Married to Daniel Ryan. Listed age as 73 y rs 5 mos. 16 days. Listed born 3/31/1829?. Died of Bronchial Pneumon ia of 1 year.
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| Death |
16 Oct 1903 |
Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
| Cause: pneumonia - Aged 73 years |
| Burial |
19 Oct 1903 |
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kaukauna, Wisconsin, USA |
- 1903 Tombstone St. Mary's Cemetery, Kaukauna; Winnifred Ryan, 3/31/18 31 - 10/16/1903
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Ryan, Winnifred (Maiden Name: Powers)
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kaukauna, Wisconsin, USA |
| Obituary |
23 Oct 1903 |
| Kaukauna Sun |
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Called To Their Reward - Mrs. Daniel Ryan Answers the Call The passing away of a pioneer always leaves a void in a community that con not ever be filled - and this is so much more evident when an old resident passes away who has been a good citizen and a christian. Such a being, in the person of Mrs. Daniel Ryan, passed to her reward in the unknown, at her home in the town of Buchanan, Friday afternoon. For the past year Mrs. Ryan had been an invalid through rheumatism, the final end being brought about by a slight cold that the enfeebled frame was unable to withstand.Mrs. Daniel Ryan whose maiden name was Winnefred Bowers(sic), was born at Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland, May 31, 1831 and came to this country in January 1850. She was united in marriage to Daniel Ryan, at Chicopee, Massachusetts on April 6, 1856, and one year later came west with her usband, the couple locating in the heart of the wilderness in the town of Buchanan on the farm where they have since made their home.Mrs. Ryan was a christian lady and it is with a feeling of intense pride that the SUN prints the following endorsement of her worth, taken from the Appleton Daily Crescent:"Mrs. Ryan was a woman possesed of all of the virtues which made the pioneer woman of this county and abiding force whose influence still remains strong in the civilization which they helped win from the early wilderness. Energetic, warm-hearted, charitable, helpful, of domestic tastes and devoted to her family, her life which is now ended was one of usefulness and christian living. Of such as her was ir said " Her children shall rise up and call her blessed."She leaves to mourn her death her venerable husband and seven children, as follows: Thomas H. Ryan, Appleton; Malachi, Daniel Ryan and Miss Winnifred Ryan, Buchanan; Dr. M.C. Ryan, Marion, Wis.; Mrs Peter Cripps and Mrs James Harney, Duluth. Also her brother Patrick Powers of the town of Buchanan and sister, Mrs. Coyle of Menasha. All of her relatives were present at the time of her death.The funeral was held from St. Mary's church Monday forenoon at 9 o'clock and she was laid to rest in the cemetery she lived in sight of for so many years. the pall bearers were Richard Powers, Thomas Rohan, David O'Connell, Michael Farrell, Michael Fox and John Cox.
Appleton Crescent Paper of Appleton, Wisconsin, dated October 24, 1903. Death of Mrs. Daniel (Winnifred) Ryan.Mrs. Daniel Ryan an old pioneer of the county and mother of Thomas H. Rya n, City Attorney of Appleton, died Friday afternoon at her home in the Town of Buchanan, age 72 years. She had been an invalid through rheumatism for some time and pneumonia setting in a few days ago resulted in death. Mrs. Ryan was born Winnifred Powers in Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland, May 31, 1831 and came to this country in January 1850. On 6 April 1856 she was married to Daniel Ryan at Chicopee, Mass. and in 1857 came with her husband to Outagamie County by way of the Great Lakes. Mr. & Mrs. Ryan settled on a farm in the town of Buchanan where they have since made their home. She leaves to mourn her death her venerable husband and seven children: Thomas H. Ryan, Appleton, Malachi and Daniel of Buchanan: Dr. Martin C. and Miss Winnifred R. of Kaukauna: Mrs. Peter Cripps and Mrs. James Harney of Duluth, Minnesota.
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Ryan, Winifred (Maiden Name: Powers)
Obituary |
| Biography |
Aft 1903 |
| description of parents arrival in Wisconsin by Thomas Ryan |
- From 'The History of Buchanan" by Thomas Ryan circa 1942?...(starting at page 6) ...The year round wild animals and game drank t he sulphur water. The writer, who was born seventy-five years ago in a l og house built on Lot 7. Section 24, recalls seeing, when a young lad, thr ee large basswood trees growing from a single base or stump and extendi ng upwards forty feet or more without a branch, near said red sulphur spri ng. Away up in the branches someone had constructed a platform conceal ed by the limbs, branches, and leaves. Access to this platform vas ma de by ascending short wooden planks which had been spiked, like step s, to the side of the trees. On this platform the hunter waited till t he deer or other wild animals came to drink. The fact that the Indian fiel ds were recorded by the surveyors of the town of Buchanan, is almost concl usive of the fact that Township 21, Range 18 and 19E south of the river w as covered by a dense growth of timber, but it does not throw any lig ht in the kind of timber which flourished here at the time of the survey.The writer's parents, Daniel and Winnefred Ryan, shortly after their marri age in Chicopee, Massachusetts, came to Buchanan in the autumn of 1857. T hey purchased Lot 7 of Section 24, the deed of which was recorded Apr il 7, 1858 in Vol. 20 D, P. 79 Outagamie County Records. This 80-acre tr act was covered by white and red oak, hard and soft maple, beech, birch, h ickory, basswood, elm, cherry, and ironwood. Many of the trees particular ly the white oak, from the ground to the first limb measured twenty to fif ty feet. Some of the stumps measured five feet in diameter. Mr. Ryan c ut down these trees with an ax, He and Mrs. Ryan, with a cross-cut saw, sa wed them into logs and with a yoke of oxen rolled them together into pile s. They then piled limbs and branches thereon and burned the piles. Corr oborative of their statement I myself, have seen our farm stumps which mea sured five feet in diameter, also white and red Oak fence rails 15 fe et in length without a knot and split as straight as a line. Part of L ot 6 of said section 24 was owned by Wm. Lamure and was not cleared of i ts timber until I was a young man. I have seen on this lot hickory trees g rowing so close together that standing between two trees one could touch b oth at the same time. Because of the dense growth these trees were witho ut branches 30 to 40 feet from the ground. They were at least 75 feet tal l.On Lot 8 Section 24, which father purchased in 1875, were hundreds of lar ge hard maples, interspersed by basswood oak, elm, beech, ironwood and che rry. These maples measured from two to four feet in diameter. Annually f or yeas we made gallons of maple syrup and enough maple sugar to supp ly us for the coming year,As a lad 8 years old, I helped two of my brothers, who were older th an I, saw basswood trees some of which were four feet in diameter in the s tump, into headings. I recall our making a canoe out of a hollow basswo od log which easily held two of us. The, white and red oak were of simil ar dimensions. These were cut into bolts and sold to the hub and spoke fa ctory at Kaukauna. I mention this because the timber on our land was no d ifferent than that of our neighbors who lived in Range 18E. In Range.19E w hite pine dominated the forest.On the whole Buchanan should be classed as hard woodland. No better timb er of its kind can be found anywhere. It goes without saying that la nd which was so prolific in mighty and extraordinary trees could not be ot her than fertile soil. The soil rests upon Trenton and Galena limeston e. Adjacent to the river it is sedimentary red clay; a short distance fr om the river, the clay is interspersed by muck and alluvium deposits. The re is little sand or gravel soil.Buchanan is well drained; Range 18E by Robert's Creek and Mud Creek and th eir tributaries; Range 19E by a tributary of Plum Creek, the source of whi ch is in Section 32 on the county boundary line between Outagamie and Calu met Counties. From this point it flows northeasterly leaving the coun ty in Section 16 and emptying into Plum Creek in Section 10. Plum Cree k, whose source is in Calumet County flows almost due north and discharg es its water in the river in Section 2. Plum Creek itself is in Brown Coun ty.While the foregoing narrative establishes that the area now comprised in t he Town of Buchanan held inducements equal, if not superior to any other a rea of the county for settlers, these natural resources were not general ly known by the public and therefore would not have induced settlers to ta ke up lands. This query naturally follows: Why did Buchanan's original pi oneers locate in Buchanan?
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| Notes |
- See Picture sent courtesy of Dr. Thomas Ryan.
per descendant Dick Powers, born in 1831, immigrated to the US in 1850 via Boston
per VanAbel family history listed her birth date as May 31, 1831 in Killaloe, Clare, Ireland
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| Person ID |
I823 |
1FamilyTree | JaysRelated, HaleyKleckner37946, TomTurriff28815 |
| Last Modified |
27 Nov 2017 |
Family  |
Ryan, Daniel J., b. 24 Dec 1820, Gouig, Castleconnell, County Limerick, Ireland d. 24 Feb 1905, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 84 years) |
| Marriage |
6 Aug 1856 |
Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
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| Marriage Record (Family) |
6 Aug 1856 |
- 1856 Massachusetts Marriage records Hampden Co, Chicopee, page 9; Winifr ed Powers daughter of Martin Powers married Daniel Ryan son of Michael Ry an on 8/06/1856 in Chicopee, Ma. Winifred age listed as 26, Daniel age list ed as 29. Both born in Ireland. His occupation listed as Laborer.
possible marriage date is April 06, 1856
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| Children |
| + | 1. Ryan, Ellen, b. 4 Mar 1857, Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA d. 26 Jun 1951, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 94 years) |
| | 2. Ryan, Mary, b. 24 Jul 1858, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 24 Apr 1884, , Outagamie County, Wisconsin, USA (Age 25 years) |
| + | 3. Ryan, Daniel James, b. 12 Feb 1862, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 13 Mar 1923, Combined Locks, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 61 years) |
| | 4. Ryan, Malachi, b. 17 Dec 1862, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 7 Dec 1942, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 79 years) |
| + | 5. Ryan, Anna Margaret, b. 14 May 1865, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 6 Mar 1954, Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, USA (Age 88 years) |
| + | 6. Ryan, Judge Thomas Henry, b. 21 Jan 1866, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 3 Feb 1944, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 78 years) |
| | 7. Ryan, Winifred, b. 22 Feb 1868, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 11 Jun 1959, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 91 years) |
| + | 8. Ryan, Martin C., b. 30 May 1872, Buchanan, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 22 Jul 1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA (Age 70 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1246 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Nov 2017 |
1831 - 1903 (72 years)
