Caleb
Winters
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Moses Winters
and Elizabeth (Head) Winters
Brother of
Mary (Crain) Butner [half], Mildred (Crane) Brock [half], John Crain [half], Elizabeth (Winters) Nicks, Lewis Crain [half], Sarah (Winters) Nicks, Phoebe Winters, Mary Winters, Nancy Winters, Catherine Winters, Elizabeth Betsy (Winters) Wood, Aaron Winters and Moses Winters
Husband of
Sarah (Harris) Winters
— married
1784 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Aaron Hamilton Winters and Zachariah Willis Winters
Died
at about age 83
in Adams, Robertson, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Feb 2019
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Biography
Son of Moses Winters and Elizabeth Head.
Large monument in cemetery lists children and spouses. Occupation was Baptist Minister. He was one of the first settlers in this part of Tennessee. Came to TN with his father in 1779. Father of 21 children total. Four born after he turned 75.
About 1781 Caleb settled on a farm in Robertson County. It is said that he subsisted entirely upon meat during the first season.
Overton County, Tennessee Vol. C: 1811-1813: Register of Deeds Overton: Roll# 33: Register of Deeds: Vol: A-C: Sep 1801-Feb 1813: Tennessee State Library and Archives. No. 65, Winters Caleb / grant
From "Goodspeed's History of Robertson County, TN" About 1781 Caleb Winters settled on the farm now owned by Hon. G. A. Washington. It is said that he, like Kilgore, subsisted entirely upon meat during the first season.
Caleb Winters was a pioneer Baptist Preacher. He came with the first settlers in 1779, he lived in a cave on Caleb's Creek the first year, and was a citizen of Robertson County for over 60 years.
Sources
- Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 February 2019), memorial page for Rev Caleb Winters (1760–18 Feb 1843), Find A Grave Memorial no. 60280364, citing Heads Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery, Cedar Hill, Robertson County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Mark Elliott (contributor 46956481) .
- Robertson County Times, September 2, 2015, Page B1. via Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/robertson-county-times-caleb-winters/140912394/ : accessed February 13, 2024), clip page for Caleb Winters by user shelly_tucker
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Caleb by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Caleb:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Caleb by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Caleb:
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~1.56%
David Hoaglan
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Jacqueline Halpin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PX4423807 [compare]
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~0.78%
John Elliott :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Richard Dykstra :
23andMe
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~0.39%
~6.25%
Pat Hodges :
23andMe
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