y this
union there were issue eleven children, four males and seven
females. His eldest daughter, Hannah, married in Rockingham county,
Virginia, Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of President Lincoln.
Shortly before his death, Lincoln, who was killed by the Indians,
visited his father-in-law at what is now Williamsport, and John
Winters, his brother-in-law, returned with him to Kentucky, whither
Mr. Lincoln had removed after his marriage; John being deputed to
look after some lands taken by Colonel Daniel Boone and his father.

They travelled on foot from the farm, by a route leading by where
Bellefonte now is, the Indian path "leading from Bald Eagle to
Frankstown."

John Winters visited his sister, Mrs. Potter, in 1843, and
wandering to the hill upon which the Academy is situated, a
messenger was sent for him, his friends thinking he had lost
himself; but he was only looking for the path he and Lincoln had
trod sixty years before, and pointed out with his finger the course
from Spring creek, along Buffalo run, to where it crosses the "Long
Limestone Valley," as the route they had travelled.

Upon the death of Mr. Winters's first wife, in 1771, he again, in
1774, married. His second wife was Ellen Campbell, who bore him
eight children, three males and five females, of which latter the
subject of this notice was the youngest.

The father of Mrs. Potter died in 1794, and in 1795 Mrs. Ellen
Winters, his widow, was licensed by the courts of Lycoming county
to keep a "house of entertainment" where Williamsport now is--where
she lived and reared her own children as well as several of her
step children.

Here all her daughters married, Mary becoming the wife of Charles
Huston, who for a number of years adorned the bench of the Supreme
Court of this State; Ellen, the wife of Thomas Burnside, who was a
member of Congress, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and finally
a Justice of the Supreme Court; Sarah, the wife of Benjamin Harris,
whose daughter, Miss Ellen Harris, resides on Spring street in this
borough; Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Alexander, a carpenter and
builder, who erected one of the first dwellings in Williamsport, at
the corner of what are now Pine and Third streets in that city, and
many of whose descendants are still livin