WINDER, Levi Thomas [73] ^{2 4 5}

   Cause of his death was chronic parenchymatous nephritis with uremia.

   Other names for Levi were WINDER, Lee and WINDER, Leo T.

  General Notes:

From "Letters from the Nevada Frontier":
March 22, 1898...I left Ione Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock and got to Winders' ranch at about 6 o'clock and staid [sic] all night there. It is one of the pleasantest places I have ever been to in its way. It is in the valley right at the foot of the mountains. The family consists of Mr. and Mrs. Winder, and two boys, "Lee", 14 years old, and Walter, 12 years old. Mr. Winder is a genuine, big-hearted Western ranchman and Mrs. Winder is a very nice woman and a splendid hostess.
The boys are remarkable chaps. Lee plays very well on the piano. He is in fact a genius at it, and plays the most difficult music for a boy of his years. He is a great hunter and in fact a very manly little fellow. He is very intelligent and I enjoy being with him. He knows everything about guns and game and shoots a great deal of it. Walter is the horseman of the family and is wonderful at that business. He can rope and ride a bucking broncho. He rides like a regular cowboy and does not know what fear is. There is an old mountaineer who works there who is a great character. He is a great hunter and he and Lee hunt a great deal together. They get lots of sagehens, ducks and blue mountain grouse. Old Henry would be a good subject for Father to draw. He looks something like Santa Claus. Is brimming over with fun. Last winter Lee shot and killed a large timber wolf that had killed several of their yearling calves. It had also killed a two year old. He has its skin now. He gave me two coyote skins. He is going to get one of the Indians to tan them for me. There are lots of Indians around there and they do not observe the game laws, but the whites do not try to enforce them. The Indians say, "white man can't catch Injun."
...June 20, 1898...I stayed about 2 hours at Winders' and had a very pleasant time. I told the boys I would send Robin Hood to them when I reached Austin again. They seemed very much pleased. The youngest boy about 10 years old, is driving a 4 horse team from Austin to Ione. He is very proud of himself, although it is very hard work for such a small boy. An old man goes with him with another team.
...[notes] 36. L. T. ("Lee") Winder was born in Iowa in 1843. He was a teamster by occupation but had a small ranch near Ione. In 1898 he received a contract from the Nevada Company to haul ore. He also opened a butcher shop in Ione to supply the Nevada Company with meat. His wife Mary and another woman ran a boardinghouse in Ione. The Winders had two sons, Eldridge and Walter. Reese River Reveille, July 20, 1898, 3; Twelfth Census of the United States, vol. 1, Population, Part 1, Nevada, Ione precinct, Enumeration District 32, sheet 5, line 23; Reese River Reveille, February 18, 1899, 3.

Churchill County Standard, 4 Nov 1905: Churchill County Men in Horse Business
I.E. Howe, L.T. Winder and son Walter, returned the first of the week from the Southern mining camps where they have been for the past few months engaged in the freighting and horse traffic. Since the completion of the Tonopah and Goldfield railroad, little has remained for the freighters of that section, but to move to a locality with a greater demand for their services. Messrs. Winder and Howe have done well in a financial sense since leaving here. They are now en route to California with a band of 80 horses which they will sell.

Churchill County Standard, 11 Nov 1905: advertisement
75 or 80 horses for sale at reasonable prices. They can be seen for the next 10 days at the rance of I.H.Kent at Stillwater. WINDER & HOWE

Churchill County Standard, 20 Jan 1906:
L. T. Winder arrived Monday from California where he has been spending the past few months selling horses shipped from this section. He reports good success, and says he will take another band of Nevada horses to California with the opening of spring.

Churchill County Eagle, 25 Oct 1906:
Marion Sanford and Charles Bailey went to Stillwater Sunday evening to engage in the capture of wild horses in Sheep canyon on the Stillwater range.

Churchill County Standard, 21 Jul 1906
L.T. Winder arrived in Fallon Tuesday from Round Mountain, where he is now engaged in business. He stated that his son, Lee, was running a grocery store and that Walter was on the road between Round Mountain and Tonopah with a freighting outfit. He thinks Round Mountain, which is located about eighty miles north of Tonopah is bound to make one of the state's foremost camps.

Churchill County Standard, 4 Aug 1906
Mr. L.T. Winder, when handed a copy of the Reese River Reveille Tuesday by a representative of the Standard remarked that he had read that paper 41 years ago. At that time it was published by the father of W.W. Booth, editor and proprietor of the Tonopah Bonanza.

Churchill County Standard, 11 Aug 1906
L.T. Winder left yesterday for his home in Round Mountain, NV, after attending to business here.

Churchill County Eagle, 3 Jan 1907:
Capt. Winder has returned from Austin, where he superintended the transportation of freight over the summit. Mesdames Winder, senior and junior, will arrive in Round Mountain Saturday, where the family will take up its residence in the new Mariposa street domicile--- Round Mountain Nugget

Churchill County Eagle, 7 Feb 1907:
L. T. Winder, formerly of Fallon but now of Round Mountain, has been in town for the past week. Mr. Winder is always welcome in this city, where he has many friends.

Churchill County Eagle, 9 Feb 1907:
L. T. Winder, formerly of this place, but now of Round Mountain, spent this week in Fallon looking after his residence property. Mr. Winder is now interested in the Round Mountain Supply Company, jointly with his sons Lee and Walter and he stated that the business that the firm was doing was very flattering and that the Round Mountain country was extremely prosperous. He still retains an abundance of faith in the future of Fallon and Churchill county, however.

Fallon Eagle, 8 Dec 1910:
It is believed that the population of this country will reach 91 million when the census returns are completed.
[Note: Levi Thomas did his best to make this goal by being counted twice
1910 Federal Census, Nye Co, NV.
Lee T. Winder, age 66, mar 29 years (1881), 3 children born, 2 living. b. IA, f. b. IN, m. b. OH, saloonkeeper.
Levi T. Winder, age 67, mar 28 yrs, 3 children born, 2 living, b. IA, f.b. OH, m.b. OH

Churchill County Eagle, Saturday, 28 Apr 1928 2:4 L.T. WINDER DIED YESTERDAY AT 85 Crossed Plains By Ox Team in '64 Fighting His Way Among Indians
The death of Levi Thomas Winder, which has been expected for some time, occurred yesterday afternoon at his home on the farm near Stillwater.
He was born in Iowa, and was 85 years of age last November. He was one of those hardy pioneers who crossed the plains in 1864 by ox team, fighting his way among the Indians, and to the day of his death carried the scars of Indian battle. But he not only won in the combat against the savages, but continued the battle which falls to the lot of every pioneer. Since 1864 he had been a resident of Nevada bending his energies toward development of the state and its resources, the past 64 years.
It ws in 1897 that he came to Churchill county, being a resident of this valley for 31 years.
He was married and to that union two sons were born, E.L. Winder and Walter G. Winder, both of whom reside in this community. He leaves besides the two sons, the widow, long known so familiarly to all her acquaintances as "Aunty" Winder, because of her kindly and loveable disposition and self sacrifice.
Mr. Winder also leaves seven grandchildren, the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Winder, Claude and William; and five children of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winder -- John, George, Howard, Katherine and the baby Emma Lou.
The many friends of the family deeply sympathize with them in their bereavement.
While the death occurred late yesterday afternoon, arrangements for the funeral had not been made, but it is expected that the funeral will be held in Fallon Sunday afternoon.

Fallon Standard, 20 May 1931: Massachusetts Man Buys Winder Ranch
William Hazel, whose home has been in Massachusetts, has bought the L. T. Winder ranch eleven miles east of Fallon and is now in possession with Mrs. Hazel, according to R. T. Walker who handled the deal.
The Winder ranch covers eighty acres part of which is under cultivation and improved. Additional improvements will be made by the new owner who will put additional acreage under cultivation. Hazel later will probably add a herd of dairy cattle to the ranch.

According to Francis L. "Pete" Winder: Levi started each day with a big breakfast and a pint of whiskey. ^{9 10}

  Research Notes:

According to 1910 census, both parents born PA

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: quartz miner.

2. Occupation: Teamster.

3. Religion: Methodist.

4. census: Federal, 1850, Pleasant, Wapello, Iowa, USA. ¹¹

5. census: Iowa, 1856, Pleasant, Wapello, Iowa, USA. ^{12 13}

6. census: Iowa State, 1856, , Wapello, Iowa, USA. ¹³

7. Migrated: from Iowa, 1864, , , Nevada, USA.

8. census: Federal, 1860, Liberty, Jefferson, Iowa, USA. Living with Michael Peebler family

9. census: Nevada, 1875, , Lander, Nevada, USA. occupation teamster, living with George Watt

10. Residence, 1881-1883, Austin, Lander, Nevada, USA.

11. Residence, 1893-1898, Reese River, Nye, Nevada, USA.

12. Residence, 1898-1900, Ione, Nye, Nevada, USA.

13. census: Federal, 1900, Ione, Nye, Nevada, USA. ¹⁴

14. census: Federal, 1910, Round Mountain, Nye, Nevada, USA. with name Lee T. Winder, occupation saloon keeper

15. census: Federal, 1910, New River, Churchill, Nevada, USA. ¹⁵ occupation quartz miner

16. census: Federal, 1920, , Churchill, Nevada, USA.

17. cemetery: Fallon Cemetery, 1928, Fallon, Churchill, Nevada, USA.

Levi married Susie E. HAMILTON [5203] [MRIN: 8586] on 19 Mar 1880 in , Lander, Nevada, USA.¹

Levi next married Mary Elizabeth Jane MYERS [74] [MRIN: 50], daughter of Edmund Cole MYERS [455] and Sarah HARMAN [843], on 12 Jul 1881 in Austin, Lander, Nevada, USA.^{2 3} (Mary Elizabeth Jane MYERS [74] was born on 7 Dec 1860 in Agency City, Wapello, Iowa, USA ¹⁶ and died on 5 Dec 1933 in Harmon District, Churchill, Nevada, USA ^{6 17 18}.). The cause of her death was Flu and mitial insufficiency.