Margaret Rector was born 31 May 1784, the daughter of Charles Rector and Sarah Chapman.[1] On 13 Feb 1803, in Kentucky, she married Isaac Turman. The first four of their thirteen children were born in Kentucky. By 1809, the date of their first son's death, they had moved to Pretty Prairie, on the Mad River, in Champaign County, Ohio. The last nine of their children were born in Tremont City, Clark County, also on the Mad River, about five miles north of Springfield, Ohio.[2]
Margaret's husband Isaac died in Feb 1823, at age 42, leaving her with a three-weeks-old baby and ten other children, all under age. Three months later, on 26 May 1823, she married the widower, John Winn, twenty-four years her elder and the father of eight children from his first marriage, all by that time grown. Together they had one child.
Her husband John died in 1838, leaving Margaret again a widow. By the 1840 census, still on her farm south of Tremont City, she was living with her three youngest sons and her youngest daughter Margaret. Within the next five years, all of these children would have died.[3] Finally, in 1847, she sold her farm and cast her lot with her son Benjamin Charles, with whom she would eventually make the trek to California by wagon train, in 1854, at age 70.[4] They would settle first in Sonoma County, California and later, between 1866 and 1870, move south to Santa Barbara County, where, at age 90, she would die and be buried at at Santa Maria Cemetery District, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, California.
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