Joseph Adair WYNN

  General Notes:

ANCESTRY: Descended from Welsh King Rhodri ap Mawr "Rhodri the Great", who reined from 844-878
ANCESTRY: Descended from Warinus de la Strode (born 1020 in Bretagne, France), a French knight who lived at the time of William the Conqueror
ANCESTRY: 9th Great-Grandchild of John Mildenhall Jr. (born 1560), the only Englishmen to visit both royal courts of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and the first Englishmen to be buried in India
ANCESTRY: 4th Great-Nephew of John Bartram, the "Father of American Botany"
ANCESTRY: First-Cousin (Five Times Removed) to William Bartram, "America's first Ornithologist"
ANCESTRY: Third-Cousin (Twice Removed) to Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (born 1841), Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier's namesake

MILITARY: 1917-1919 World War I, U.S. Army 90th Division, Cpl Co
RESIDENCES: Moved from Oklahoma to Yuma, Arizona in 1936
OCCUPATION: Caterpillar Operator for the L.A. Consaul Produce Company

OBITUARY:
Joseph A. Wynn Dies at Hospital
Joseph Adair Wynn, 72, Somerton, died at Parkview Baptist Hospital last night. He had been a caterpillar operator for the L.A. Consaul Produce Co. for many years.
Born Oct. 27, 1892, in Crowder, Okla., Wynn came to Yuma in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army 90th Division during World War I and was a member of the American Legion Post No. 47, Somerton.
Survivors include his widow, Nora, of the home; a son Albert L. Wynn, Yuma; five daughters, Mrs. Frances M. Smith and Mrs. Louise Noble, both of Somerton, Mrs. Jane Raulston, Yuma, and Mrs. Jo Ann Kennedy, Farmington, N.M., and Mrs. Rebecca Wolf, Tucson; and a brother, John H., Los Angeles.
Memorial services will be held at Johnson Mortuary Saturday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Don Butler, pastor of the First Christian Church. Burial will be in Desert Lawn Memorial Park with military rites by the American Legion.
Friends may call at Johnson Mortuary Friday between 4 and 8 p.m. The family requests that in lieu of remembrances gifts to the City of Hope be made in his name.

Yuma, Arizona Daily Sun
July 21, 1965

  Research Notes:

-- Smith Family Tree (http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/13769941)
-- Find A Grave, Memorial # 44341449
-- 1920 U.S. Census
-- 1930 U.S. Census
-- 1940 U.S. Census
-- 1950 U.S. Census

Joseph married Eleanor "Nora" COOPER, daughter of Dave Richard "Sam" COOPER and Ruth Newel EASTES. (Eleanor "Nora" COOPER was born on 12 Feb 1902 in Crowder, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, died on 12 Jun 1995 in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona and was buried in Desert Lawn Memorial Park, Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona.)