Description
There is a Negro woman living in Clay County (Missouri) by the name of Winey, who is 118 years old. She was born in Virginia in 1750, years before the Revolution.
Her former master says he has known her about 60 years (~1808), and has never known her to be sick but once and then she had the fever and ague. He further states that 40 years ago (~1828) she was worth $50 less than nothing, or in other words, he was paid $50 to take and keep her.
She is of sound mine, can see quite plainly, enjoys good health, and looks and acts as though she will live for years to come.
(Researcher’s note: Although the news article does not identify Winey's “former master,” on October 4, 1844, Thomas W. R. Brasfield of Platte County, Missouri, conveyed 15 year old Winey and 16 year old Horace “slaves for life" to Kemp Woods of Clay County, Missouri, as collateral on a mortgage. See Entry/Object Id# DE.0149 and DE.0150.
According to Paxton's Annals, Thomas Wylie Roy Brasfield was born in Clark County, Kentucky, on September 6, 1817, and died in Platte County on November 8, 1873. He was the son of James Brasfield born on September 25, 1790, in Clark County, Kentucky. "He (James Brasfield) was sheriff of Clark County, Kentucky, for 8 years, and a practical surveyor of large experience. He came with his family to Clinton County, Missouri, in 1834, and removed thence to Platte, in the Spring of 1838. He was the surveyor who, under Commissioner M. M. Hughes, fixed the northern line of Platte County."
Wylie Roy Brasfield, father of James Brasfield and grandfather of Thomas Wylie Roy Brasfield, was born in Virginia on April 19, 1766, and relocated to Kentucky,)Date(s) of Creation
11/26/1868
