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Show Short History of Stephen Winchester Stephen F. Winchester Belle Wattis Winchester When Stephen Frederick Winchester came on the Robinson farm on the bench in Mountain Green, he was immediately accepted into the family circle of John Beber and 'Nodie' France Robinson. He was born, 16 November 1873, in Asburnham, Sussex, England, a son of John and Sarah Dengate Winchester. He was the youngest of eight children born to the couple. Sarah Dengate Winchester had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1863, 10 years before Stephen was born. Whe he was about 10 years of age his mother had emigrated to America and crossed the plains to Utah. She brou¬ght Stephen and his youngest sister, Mercy Martha, with her. The husband and oth¬er children remained in England for a time. John came later and perhaps some of the older children. John and Sarah are buried in the Centervilie Cemetery. Stephen worked alongside James Robinson, his foster brother, on the farm. When Heber moved his family from the bench onto a farm on Strawberry Creek, Stephen went along and helped his benefactor and sons set up a sawmill on the Creek. In 1900, records show that Stephen was living in the old home on the bench, now owned by William G. Warner. With him were Ralph G. and William, sons of the new owners. Frank Jewett, an older man, was operating the farm and took care of the three youths for a while. In November of 1902, Stephen Frederick Winchester and Lottie Belle Wattis were married. She was born, 8 February 1884, in Uintah, a daughter of George Lyman and Addie Viola Scott Wattis. She grew up in Uintah where she attended school. For a time they lived in an old frame house north of the old Union Pacific Depot. Later about four acres of land was purchased east of the little house where Steve and Belle built a neat brick bungalow. Here they lived the rest of their li¬ves. They were parents of two children, Helen and Austin. Steve worked for the Union Pacific Railroad, ditching alongside the tracks 256 |