The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-10-15
Death of J. C. Winship.

We are again called upon to chronicle
the death of one Of the oldest and most
! highly esteemed citizens of Bradford
Joseph Carter Winship. Mr.. Winship
! died Tuesday, Oct. 18th, after a long i'll
ness from which he seemed in a measure
| t. have recovered On the day of his
death he was out doors about the build
ings seemingly much better, but as he
stepped over the threshold into his house
he fell forward upon his face dead. AL
! though his death was so sudden and un-
expected it did not find him unprepared,
for he had been consistent christian for
more than sixty years, having joined the
Calvinistic Baptist church in Henniker,
n. H., by letter from the church in Ma
son, n H., soon after he removed from
that town to Henniker in 1886, and re-
NAMED a member as long as he lived.
Mr.. Winship was born in Mason i'll the
year 1872, so that he was eighty-five years
of age or in his eighty-siXth year when he
died. He was a son of Joseph and Achsa
Richardson and one of nine children, all
of whom had scripture names. He and
his brother Alfred, who died in Bradford
in 1867 removed from Mason to Henniker
in 1886 and soon established themselves
thq.ei in the tinware and stove business.
Nfr. Alfred Winship, the father of Henry
A. Winship, had learned the trade and
Joseph G.. had been a successful tinware
peddler, so that they were well fitted to
make a success of their business. In 1919
Mr.. J. {. Winship came to Bradford and
opened a branch of the business, both be-
ing conducted under the firm name of }.
G. q \. Winship. They established their
business ia new building which the firm
erected near the II. a. Winship's hard
ware store, owned by Asa Low, but
which was in fact the original Methodist
church removed from the lower plain
near the j. w Bliss house. They did an
;,,,, h1ginaSS hnpn in and
stoves, sending out many peddlerS. But
trusting out too many of their goods, the
dishonesty of some of their agents away
from here and finally a disastrous lawsuit
so involved the firm that about the year
1860 they failed, Mr.. Alfred Winship hay
ing removed here in 1859 After the fail
ure for several years Mr.. }. Z. WlnShlp
drew copper ore from the COrinth mines
to Bradford depot He had an excellent
team and drew immense loads. About
1878 he gave up teaming and later bought
the farm on which he died, of William
Aldrich.
Maria Adams of Mason, by whom he had
one child. daughter who survives him.
Mrs. Winship died August 22d, 1876.
Mr. Winship was a man OF very posi-
tive convictions and very fearless IN his
expression of them He was in early
daVs what was termed rabid Abolition
ist and lived to see the government adopt
his ideas. He was always a total absti-
nence man and lived to see the enact
ment of the prohibitory law, and al
though the business of selling tinware on
the road was not supposed to, be condu-
Give to a strict adherence to the truth at
all times, Mr.. Winship's customers soon
found that he never deceived them and
were glad to buy of him again. OF late
wears he was seen but seldom on our
streets. but his old friends always had a
cheerful word from him and are sad at
his death.
The funeral was sOlemnized at the
house Thursday afternoon at one O'Clock,
Rev. A. H. Webb officiating, Capt. p. 5.
Chamberlin conductor. lnterment was
made in the cemetery on the upper plain.