Winfred H. Lancaster, 19041975 (aged 70 years)

Name
Winfred H. /Lancaster/
Birth
Death of a maternal grandmother
Death of a maternal grandfather
Birth of a brother
Census
Birth of a brother
Census
Residence
Death of a brother
Source: Headstone
Text:

"Son"

Death of a mother
Source: Headstone
Text:

"Mother"

Divorce
Marriage
Death of a father
Source: Headstone
Text:

"Father"

Death of a brother
Source: Headstone
Death of a brother
Source: Headstone
Text:

"Father"

Burial of a father
Burial of a mother
Death
January 1975 (aged 70 years)
Source: Headstone
Text:

"Husband"

Burial
Family with parents
father
18641950
Birth: January 27, 1864 32 30 near Sulphur Well, Hardin Co. TN
Death: February 10, 1950
mother
18671943
Birth: July 30, 1867 32 18 Tennessee
Death: December 14, 1943
Marriage MarriageDecember 25, 1887Decatur Co. TN
9 months
elder brother
18881940
Birth: September 18, 1888 24 21 Henderson Co. TN
Death: April 27, 1940
brother
elder brother
18921895
Birth: November 21, 1892 28 25
Death: March 14, 1895
17 months
elder brother
1894
Birth: March 1894 30 26 Tennessee
2 years
elder sister
1896
Birth: April 1896 32 28 Tennessee
4 years
elder sister
1900
Birth: March 1900 36 32 Tennessee
21 months
elder brother
19011970
Birth: December 2, 1901 37 34 Tennessee
Death: October 18, 1970
3 years
himself
19041975
Birth: December 31, 1904 40 37 Tennessee
Death: January 1975
4 years
younger brother
19081951
Birth: 1908 43 40 Tennessee
Death: 1951
Family with Louise Kibbons
himself
19041975
Birth: December 31, 1904 40 37 Tennessee
Death: January 1975
wife
19211999
Birth: 1921
Death: 1999
Marriage MarriageOctober 27, 1945Madison Co. TN
Family with Bertie Mae Armstrong
himself
19041975
Birth: December 31, 1904 40 37 Tennessee
Death: January 1975
ex-wife
Divorce DivorceJune 14, 1945Henderson Co. TN
Death
Source: Headstone
Text:

"Husband"

Shared note

In the 1920 census, Winfred Lancaster is living in the Tillman A. Lancaster household.

Winfred Lancaster

"I Remember"
By H. J. Bolen
Henderson County Times
February 18, 1981

I remember many good friends I made during school days, and some who remained friends right on through the years. I recall Winfred Lancaster who, from high school days, remained my friend right on to his death some years ago. He was the son of Judge W. H. Lancaster, but was given to his brother to rear as his own. The brother, Judge T. A. "Ack" Lancaster, and his brother W. H. "Bill" Lancaster were more than just blood brothers, as we say, but they were very devoted to each other’s welfare and found mutual understanding and respect virtues in their lives. After our high school days together, Winfred went to a Jackson business college, along with Claude Fesmire, with Glenn Jarrett and I going to Union University. We managed to get together some, though, with Jarrett boarding the same place. Winfred made arrangements for me to speak at one of their chapel programs, and what an introduction he gave, no one knowing we were good friends. When his uncle, Judge T. A. Lancaster, was appointed U.S. District Attorney of West Tennessee, he made Winfred his secretary, and they got me a teaching job in Memphis and told me to go to night school and study shorthand and I could have a secretarial job in the District Attorney’s office. Yet, when the summer of 1928 came along I went to the Peabody College employment office and got a school position in Florida, which had the reputation of paying more than any other state at the time. Although I left the state at this time, Winfred and I kept in touch and never lost contact with each other.

When Judge Lancaster went to Washington to see about his appointment for the District Attorney’s post, he came back to Lexington and there was some kind of reception held in the law offices of the Lancaster brothers. My father seems to have been invited to attend and when he came back home he was telling us all, with some degree of pride, that Judge Lancaster had described President Coolidge by telling the group that he looked to him as being about the size of W. R. Bolen. This event and the days that followed were great ones for Winfred, as he felt that his uncle, father, and friend was now one of the nation’s greatest men. Another Henderson Countian, William R. Wright, was also appointed to a federal post, that of U.S. Marshal for the U.S. District Court for West Tennessee. Just previously to this recognition for Henderson County citizens, Judge John E. McCall had served as U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, he having died in that office.

Winfred Lancaster was later appointed to a position with the state veterans service, and Claude Fesmire became a banker with the First National Bank of Lexington, with Glenn Jarrett setting up a dental practice in Lexington. I boarded with Claude Fesmire at Judge Felix Davis’s home one year, sleeping with my friend, Ashley Adams, with Claude and Tipton Powers across the hall in another room. Claude always entertained us with his jokes that were taken from country settings which spiked good humor. After a life of dedication to education in Henderson County, Ashley closed his educational career as county superintendent of schools. Tipton taught for many years in the county schools.

Winfred Lancaster was a very intelligent person, always full of fun and effervescing with humor. He joined me at Wildersville when ex-Sheriff John Franklin led a posse of citizens seeking the killer of Sheriff W. H. McBride, which lasted a whole day. I had my father’s single-barreled shotgun, which got quite heavy during the long trek, and the only one with a shotgun. Winfred poked fun at me all day, and found something funny about my participation for years to come. And again when Allan Sweatt broke a stick of crayon on my nose, throwing it from across the room during a French class session. When I learned who threw the crayon. I jumped on Allan as we went down the hall. Such, a confrontation was always the delight of Winfred. Winfred was always a true sport, and ever true to his friends, and I never heard him speak ill of anyone. I remember him as one of the finest specimens of manhood ever to come from the heritage of Henderson County.