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My daughter's great grandfather is Alva Lee WYNKOOP, b 1864/5 in Indiana. He married Nannie Emma WRINKLE in Missouri, but resided for many years in Canon City, Colorado, as Superintendent of their water works. His daughter, Lurah Clay (or Kidd) WYNKOOP, married Elwood Best Lynch, Sr., M.D. in Canon City and for the D&RG Railroad.
There are several newspaper articles left in the WYNKOOP Family Bible, all of course, without dates and locations. Among these is one indicating that Alva Lee and his mother narrowly escaped being massacred by the Indians in Indiana.
I have unsuccessfully attempted to relate him in some way to other WYNKOOPs I have found in Colorado. Alva Lee was an only child, his daughter was an only child, as was her son, and his daughter (my daughter, Anna Luhra LYNCH SHACKELTON).
Far more information is available from me on this family, but I am hoping that you may be able to link the family in some way. Lee, as he was known, was the son of G S, G J, or Stephan WYNKOOP who married Harriet A. "Hattie" WILLOBY (b 1 Mar 1841, Baltimore, Maryland; do. 19 Jan 1896, Canon City, Colorado). According to a newsclipping in the Bible, GS, GJ, or Stephan WYNKOOP died in a State Hospital, Leavenworth, Kansas.
I attempted to locate such a hospital last week, so far without any luck.
Laura GENTNER LYNCH DUNWALD
Doing the research for my daughter.
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