Edmund Winston
BIRTH
1745
Hanover County, Virginia
DEATH
August 18, 1818
Lynchburg, Virginia
FAMILY
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Winston, Edmund
(1745-1818)
Edmund Winston (1745-1818) was a lawyer and judge and the spouse of Dorothea Dandridge Henry. Dorothea Dandridge Henry was a public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Edmund Winston to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded death at Lynchburg, Virginia provides a later geographic anchor for a life otherwise preserved chiefly through family and genealogical records. Including Edmund Winston in HistoryGPS records the family, professional, and social networks that connected individuals to the wider Revolutionary generation.
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WIFE
Dorothea Dandridge Henry
(1757-1831)
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DIED:
Lynchburg, Virginia
Aug 18, 1818
The exact date and place of Edmund Winston’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Edmund Winston with work or public activity as a lawyer, judge. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Edmund Winston died on Aug 18, 1818 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.