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 John Anthony Winston - Geiger, Alabama Posted by:  BruceS
N 32° 48.176 W 088° 18.743
16S E 377126 N 3630202
Historical marker commemorating former Governor of Alabama along Hwy 17 south of Geiger.
Waymark Code: WM7FYF
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2009
Views: 13
Text of marker:
John Anthony Winston
(1812-1871)
Planter, Legislator, Soldier, Governor
1853: First native-born Alabamian to be elected Governor.
1854: Approved Act establishing public school of state.
1867: Elected to U.S. Senate.
He was denied his seat as would not take oath of allegiance to Federal Government.
Buried 5 miles east in family cemetery.
Marker Name: John Anthony Winston
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
"John Anthony Winston (September 4, 1812 – December 21, 1871) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1853 to 1857. He was born in 1812 in Madison County, Alabama and became the first native born governor of Alabama. He was a son of William Winston and Mary Cooper of Tuscumbia Alabama. William was a son of Anthony Winston and Keziah Jones former residents of Buckingham County Virginia. John Anthony Winston married his first cousin, Mary Agness Jones, (born ca. 1819 and died ca. 1835) on August 7, 1832 in Madison County Alabama. He died December 21, 1871 in Mobile, Alabama and is buried in the Winston Family Cemetery (privately owned) near Gainesville in Sumter County Alabama. He had only one child, a daughter, Mary Agnes Winston. In January 1867 he presented his credentials to the United States Senate as Senator-elect from Alabama for the term 1867-1873, but was not permitted to take his seat.
John Anthony Winston was also a first cousin to the war time governor of Mississippi, John Jones Pettus, who was born in Wilson County Tennessee October 9, 1813 and died in Pulaski County Arkansas on January 25, 1867. John Jones Pettus' wife was his first cousin Permelia Virginia Winston (1809-1857) a sister of John Anthony Winston. Permelia Virginia Pettus is buried in the Winston Cemetery, Gainesville Sumter County Alabama." - Wikipedia
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1966
Marker Number: Not listed
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