My Genealogy Hound

William M. Wynn, farmer, was born in Washington County, Ark., in 1836, and is a son of Josiah and Harriet (Turner) Wynn, natives of Kentucky and Tennessee, respectively, who settled in Washington County in an early day. When our subject was about twelve they came to Crawford County, Ark., and located one mile north of the present site of Alma, where the mother died. The father was twice married, was a farmer by occupation, was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and for many years served as justice of the peace in this county. His father was Harmon Wynn. William M. is the youngest child of nine born by his father’s first marriage, twenty-three children having been born by both marriages. He attended school but about three months, and in 1856 married Martha Cumpton of Hempstead County, Ark. This union was blessed with nine children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Wynn has now been dead thirteen years. During the war Mr. Wynn served four years and two months in the Confederate army, in Capt. Winfrey’s company, serving in Arkansas and the Indian Territory, and being in active service nearly all the time. He rode his own horse and bore his own expenses, never being reimbursed by the Government. After the war he moved upon his present farm, which contains 160 acres, and is located near Alma. Mr. Wynn has now been a resident of the county over forty years, and distinctly remembers when it was a wilderness, inhabited by wild game and Indians. In politics Mr. Wynn is a Democrat. Mrs. Wynn was member of the Baptist Church.