8BB.  Clyde Henry Winchester was born in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, on Friday, January 14, 1881, and died in Plainwell, Michigan, on May 14, 1953. He died of hardening of the arteries. He was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Michigan.. Mildred Baker was born in _____ on Thursday, August 7, 1884, and died in Howard City, Michigan, in the early 1970s. They were married in Michigan on Thursday, December 25, 1902. She took the name Mildred Winchester. He is the son of Ozro LaVerne Winchester and Hannah Gilbert Winchester. She is the daughter of William and Eliza (Paine) Baker. They had one child:

i. Mildred Winchester [#8BBA]: She was born in South Bend, Indiana, on August 8, 1904, and died probably in Howard City, Montcalm County, Michigan, in February, 1989.

His second marriage was to Harriet Elizabeth Jolly. She was born probably in Newberry, Michigan, in July 19, 1891-2, and died in Cadillac, Michigan, in 1934. She was called Hattie. She is the daughter of Charles and Ida Mae (Williams) Jolly. They had four children:

i. Charles Edward Winchester [#8BBB]: He was born in Walton Junction, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, on April 17, 1914, and died in _____ on January 3, 1997.
ii. Wilma Kathryn Winchester [#8BBC]: She was born in Walton Junction, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, on April 7, 1916.
iii. Isabella Leone Winchester [#8BBD]: She was born in Walton Junction, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, on April 1, 1918, and died in Cadillac on July 20, 1982.
iv. John Gilbert Winchester [#8BBE]: He was born in Walton Junction, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, on February 9, 1920.

His third marriage was to Gertrude House. They had no children.

Clyde and Mildred (Baker) Winchester
Clyde lived in Grand Rapids when he worked for the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. From there they moved to Cadillac, Michigan, where he started up the concrete pipe company. After he married Mattie, he became religious and was ordained a preacher. He helped build a church in Cadillac.

Mattie's wedding ring from Clyde is [2001] in the possession of her granddaughter, Sandra (George) Pratt. It is inscribed "December 18, 1902" altho their marriage license indicates that they were married on December 25, 1902.

Mattie had a son, Glen, who was born in Minnesota on May 11, 1912. He was never legally adopted into the family but was given the Winchester name. Per Josephine Winchester:

He was born to Hattie out of wedlock and [she] went from Michigan to Minnesota to give birth. Clyde took him as his own son and Glen always believed that he was his real son until he went into the Navy and they checked his birth record and found out that he was sired by another man. His wife told us that he was so upset about finding the truth that he cried. But the rest of the kids also felt like he was their real brother. He married and had two sons and a daughter. He died of lingering complications after a heart valve operation.

Per Josephine Winchester, Clyde and Mattie did not get along well. Mildred was 8 years old when they divorced and was sent to live with her grandparents Ozro an Hannah Winchester. She lived with them for about two years. When she was 11 years old, she went back to live with her mother and a stepfather. There was havoc at their home causing Mildred to leave home again at the young age of 16. They were in Grand Rapids at the time. Soon she met Nick and they were married.

After Clyde and Mattie divorced, she married George Ring; she adopted the name Mattie Ring.

Jo and John Winchester visited family in Cadillac?, Michigan, in August and September, 2001. She wrote:
Wilma (Wiltzer) recalled that her father used to gather pulp wood and pile it next to the train (probably the railroad he worked on) and then the pulp wood would be transferred to a place where it was made into Excelsior. Other than that she couldn't remember anything. She was born in 1916 and was too young during part of that time to be aware what her dad did. Those were the years when he worked on the railroad and also for some company where he had invented something that put him in good standing with the company and he also became very religious in that period after he married Hattie Jolly. These are bits of things I picked up by listening. When I met John, his dad was married to Gertrude House and after 12 years of that marriage he wanted to divorce Gertrude but decided to stick it out. Gertrude outlived him and lived to be in her 90s when she died. Wilma cannot walk and uses a walker away from home and a wheelchair at home. She needs a lot of assistance. She is very lucky to have family close who take good care of her.

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