Individual Details

Winfield Scott Stiles

(8 Jan 1855 - 18 May 1939)

Family legends::: Winfield came from Vermont with his family to Gilmanton, WI by riverboat "up the Ohio River" (quote from Lucy Stiles, wife of William Stiles, who used to hear Grandpa Stiles (William Lyman Stiles) tell of coming to Wisconsin and Minnesota) to the Mississippi to either La Crosse, WI, or Winona, MN.
:: :: When Win was 10 years old, he moved with his family from Gilmanton, WI, to Pleasant Valley, MN. They came by oxcart. Because he was 10 years old, he walked beside the oxcart the whole distance, reserving seating on the oxcart for younger siblings and his mother.
:: :: Win was a stage coach driver where he met his future wife, Ella Jefferson.
:: :: Family legend has it that he met his wife, Ella Jefferson, when he drove the stage. The Tattersall House was a known stage stop. (Winfield drove a stage, and his son, Burt, my father, related a story concerning driving this stage. Dad stated that his father drove whatever the weather, and at one time his hands were frozen to the reins, and when he got to his stage stop, his hands 'had to be pried loose from the reins', to thaw them out. Winfield's hands were all gnarled from driving stage.) According to the 1880 census, Ella is living with her Aunt & Uncle, Mr & Mrs. Perry A. Honeywell, in Minnesota. They are living in High Forest and he is a hotelkeeper (the only hotel in High Forest at that time is the Tattersall House, so speculation tells us that Perry might be running this hotel, where Ella is helping in the hotel.)
:: :: In 1899, Win was elected (or appointed, not sure which) to be the constable of High Forest. I am not too sure what the responsibilities of a constable were, but I am sure that Win could handle the pressure of the job.

Events

Birth	8 Jan 1855	Roxbury, Addison, Vermont, USA
Birth	8 Jan 1855
Residence	1860	Gilmanton, Buffalo, Wisconsin, USA
Residence	1870	Pleasant Valley, Mower, Minnesota, USA
Residence	1 May 1875	Mower, Minnesota, USA
Marriage	25 Nov 1882	Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA -
Single	25 Nov 1882	Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA - Ella Jefferson
Marriage	25 Nov 1882	Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA - Ella Jefferson
Residence	1900	High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Residence	1900	High Forest village, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Residence	1910	Rock Dell, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Residence	1920	Rock Dell, Olmsted, Minnesota
Residence	1930	High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Residence	1930	High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Death	18 May 1939	Stewartville, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Death	19 May 1939	Stewartville, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Death	19 May 1939	Stewartville, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Death	19 May 1939
Alt name		Winfield Scott "Wynn" Stiles
Employment		Stagecoach Driver - High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Burial		Stewartville, MN - Stewartville, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Residence		High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Residence		High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota, USA
Reference No		6019924
Reference No		6201000
Reference No		60

Families

Spouse	Ella Jefferson (1859 - 1933)
Child	Roy George Stiles (1884 - 1891)
Child	Baby Boy Stiles (1891 - 1891)
Child	Burt Jefferson Stiles (1894 - 1975)

Father	William Lyman Stiles (1827 - 1886)
Mother	Betsey Hemmingway Hutchinson (1831 - 1915)
Sibling	Daniel Lyman Stiles (1853 - 1928)
Sibling	Charles Columbus Stiles (1859 - 1943)
Sibling	Alvah Freemont Stiles (1862 - 1935)
Sibling	George Ellsworth Stiles (1867 - 1934)
Sibling	Edward Oliver Stiles (1869 - 1940)
Sibling	Chloe Betsey Stiles (1872 - 1917)

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (N.p.: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;, n.d.), Database online..

2. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), Year: 1910; Census Place: Rock Dell, Olmsted, Minnesota; Roll: T624_713; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0119; FHL microfilm: 1374726.

3. Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1860; Census Place: Gilmanton, Buffalo, Wisconsin; Roll: M653_1400; Page: 812; Family History Library Film: 805400.

4. Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1870; Census Place: Pleasant Valley, Mower, Minnesota; Roll: T132_8; Page: 66; Image: 407688; Family History Library Film: 830428.

5. Ancestry.com, Minnesota, Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007).

6. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1920; Census Place: Rock Dell, Olmsted, Minnesota; Roll: T625_847; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 121.

7. Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002), Year: 1930; Census Place: High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota; Roll: 1110; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0032; Image: 758.0; FHL microfilm: 2340845.

8. Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census (N.p.: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T6, n.d.), Year: 1900; Census Place: High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota; Roll: T623_778; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 107..

9. Ancestry.com, 1900 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004), Year: 1900; Census Place: High Forest, Olmsted, Minnesota; Roll: 778; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0107; FHL microfilm: 1240778.

10. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M2GB-YNF : accessed 31 August 2017), Winfield S Stiles, Rock Dell, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 119, sheet 10A, family 136, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 713; FHL microfilm 1,374,726. .

Winfield S Stiles, "United States Census, 1910"

11. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MWML-RQC : 12 April 2016), Winfield S Styles in entry for W L Styles, 1860..

Winfield S Styles in household of W L Styles, "United States Census, 1860"