The origins of Harmon Winn are presently a mystery. Based on census records, he was born in May of 1842 in Georgia. Family tradition holds that when Harmon was a child, his parents were robbed, killed, and their barn set on fire, but they hid Harmon under a bed, where he was rescued and raised by their neighbors the Dale family. Harmon first appeared in the Coffee County census of 1860, when he was listed as an 18-year-old pauper, born in Georgia and residing in the household of Sara Dale, age 23 and unmarried, born in North Carolina.
About 1866 Harmon married Zelphia Hutto (April, 1847-c1910), daughter of Coffee County neighbors Isaac and Catherine Hutto. During the next decade or so, Harmon and Zelphia went by the Dale surname in both census and tax records, but by 1880 they had reverted to the Winn surname, which they maintained for the rest of their lives. Harmon and Zelphia ultimately raised a family of eight children in Coffee County.
Children of Harmon Winn and Zelphia Hutto
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: As is the case with the vast majority of the family bio pages on this site, some of the information and details regarding this family are derived from the voluminous research of my uncle Daniel Worth, now available online at my father Gene Worth's web site Worth and Solomon Genealogy. My aunt Iva Yeager also shared her own related research with me more than two decades ago, which first sparked my interest in genealogy.
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