Winters, Obadiah R.

Born: 1834-01-05 Illinois

Died: 1868-05-24 Du Quoin, Illinois

Obadiah R. Winters was a lawyer and a Republican. In 1860, he was working as a lawyer in Williamson County, Illinois and owned $500 in personal property. In 1862, he resided in Du Quoin, Illinois. By the time he registered for the draft in 1863, he was unmarried and living in Illinois.

Obadiah R. Winters to Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Williamson County, IL, 13; U.S., IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918, Illinois, September 1862, 4, (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2008); U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010); Gravestone, IOOF Cemetery, Du Quoin, IL.