Yesterday’s feature about the Winchester barn brought to my mind, Anson Winchester, whose descendants still reside in the region. Anson Winchester was born on December 3, 1790 at Worchester, Massachusetts. He was an elderly man when he came to the Honey Lake Valley, when his son Elliott located there in 1864.
Anson died on September 19, 1877 at Johnstonville and is buried in the Susanville Cemetery. He is one of about dozen individuals interred there who were born in the 1700s. It is remarkable to think that four centuries are represented in that cemetery!