Kenneth L. Winkley

Mr. Winkley was a technical director of the Hodgman Rubber Co. of Framingham, Mass., for many years. He was an officer and director of the Boston Rubber Group for a period of 20 years and an emeritus member of the Division of Rubber Chemistry ACS.

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Mary (Falconi) Winkley; two daughters, Sandra G. Ray of Rhode Island and Virginia M. Winkley-Cohen of Massachusetts; two sons, Kenneth L. Winkley Jr. of Connecticut and Paul W. Winkley of Exeter; as well as eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

WE REMEMBER: Ken was an ardent golfer and a member of the Exeter Country Club as well as serving on its executive committee for seven years. He had three holes-in-one in his lifetime as a golfer. He was secretary/treasurer of the Wednesday Night Fourball League.

He enjoyed woodworking and made many toys for his grandchildren as well as for Toys for Tots at Christmas time.

SERVICES: Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 14, at 10 a.m. at the Brewitt Funeral Home, 14 Pine St., Exeter, with the Rev. Chris Martel officiating.

Burial will follow in the Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Rockingham VNA & Hospice, 137 Epping Road, Exeter, NH 03833.

To sign the online guest book, please visit www.brewittfuneralhome.com .

Sands of Time--The Phelps Family and their Kin in Orange, Caswell ...

Livingston Lafayette Blackwell was my maternal 2nd Great-Grandfather, Born in Rockingham County, N.C. July 25th, 1848 and died in Alamance County, N.C. June 19th 1920. I recently discovered his grave site in Pine Hill Cemetery in Burlington, N.C. Livingston Lafayette Blackwell was the oldest son of Nathaniel Lafayette Blackwell and Ann E. Cobb, daughter of Henry Cobb and Martha Nunnally. He was the grandson of Thomas Blackwell and Rebecca Watt. He was the great-grandson of Capt. Robert Blackwell and Zillah Rice, daughter of Thomas Rice d.1800 Caswell County, N.C. Livingston Lafayette Blackwell appeared to have been called "William" by family members and in some records. I suppose this nickname was to avoid confusion with his father Lafayette "Fate" Blackwell and perhaps "Livingston Lafayette" was quite a mouthful to use on an everyday basis. In the Will of Henry Cobb, father of Livingston Lafayette Blackwell's mother, Ann E. Cobb, the following passage appears referring to him as "William L.": Item 5th: I bequeath to my grandchildren William L. Blackwell, Joseph H. Blackwell and Martha A. Blackwell, one negro woman named Patience and the two children she now has and all that she may hereafter have together with the property heretofore given, when the oldest of the aforesaid grandchildren shall have arrived to the age of twenty one years. I will that all other property heretofore given and all that may accrue to them hereafter in anyway from my estate by that time, both real and personal, be equally divided between them so as to make them all equal one with the other, and I further will that the grandchildren as aforesaid in the final division of my estate, share equal in proportion with one of my children.    Livingston "William" Lafayette Blackwell, Joseph H. Blackwell and Martha A. Blackwell were the the 3 children  of Nathaniel Lafayette Blackwell and his 1st wife Ann E. Cobb, who were married in Caswell County, N.C. October 16th, 1847 with J. B. Siddle as Bondsman/Witness. Ann E. Cobb Blackwell died "before" June 18th 1859 when Nathaniel Lafayette Blackwell Married 2nd in Caswell County, N.C., Martha E. Siddle, with Thomas J. Mills as Bondsman/Witness.  As the 2nd marriage took place before the writing of Henry Cobb's 1861 Will, this confirms that Ann E. Cobb was deceased prior to the writing of the Will, as Henry Cobb left property to his named grandchildren and made them equal to all his living children in place of their deceased mother.

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