Claire Estelle Wynne

Claire Estelle Wynne

• Father: Minor Darius Wynne b. 13 February 1821, d. 17 September 1891
• Mother: Sarah Willis Hopkins b. 1827, d. circa 1867

• Claire Estelle Wynne was born on 28 July 1858 in Texas.
• Minor Darius Wynne and Sarah Willis Hopkins appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Claire Estelle Wynne, Robert A. Wynne, Margaret Elizabeth Wynne, Ida Harriet Wynne, Mildred Baldwin Wynne, M. H. Wynne and Martha C. Hopkins. Also in the household was E. Miers, age 13, thought to have been a niece.
• Minor Darius Wynne and Martha C. Hopkins appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Claire Estelle Wynne, Margaret Elizabeth Wynne, Ida Harriet Wynne, Mildred Baldwin Wynne, Josie Ella Wynne and Martha Wynne.
• Minor Darius Wynne and Martha C. Hopkins appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Calvert, Robertson County, Texas. Other members of the household included Claire Estelle Wynne, Ida Harriet Wynne, Mildred Baldwin Wynne, Josie Ella Wynne and Martha Wynne.
• She married Horatio Walter Durst, son of Joihn M. Durst and Harriet Matilda Jamison, circa 1885.
• Horatio Walter Durst and Claire Estelle Wynne appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Leona, Leon County, Texas. Also in the household were children Gould (age 26), Horatio (24) and his wife Lizzie, and Benigno (17) from earlier marriages, and their children Estelle (10), Louis (8), Pauline (6) and Elna (4), not yet recorded.
• Claire Estelle Wynne became a widow at the 1 January 1930 death of her husband Horatio Walter Durst.
• Claire Estelle Wynne died on 1 July 1944 at age 85 in Crockett, Houston County, Texas, . Informant was her daughter Mrs. Pauline Moore, Crockett.
• She was interred at Glenwood Cemetery, Crockett, Houston County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 22 Mar 2012