Trying to identify this soldier painting (WWI?)

Scratch that, wife texted it to me! I have contacted the VFW and church there looking for abdirectory to get a picture of him and confirm our suspicion the photo/painting is indeed Joseph.

 

Ezra Dayton WINTERMUTE, son of Abraham WINTERMUTE and Mary OSBORN , was born 13 March 1838 in 2 miles SE of Sparta, Sussex County, NJ. He married Sarah Millie STEVENS 29 September 1868. He died 06 March 1917 in Dayton County, Ohio. Sarah Millie STEVENS was born 11 March 1846 in Delaware County, Ohio.


Children of Ezra Dayton WINTERMUTE and Sarah Millie STEVENS are:
1. Amzi Grant WINTERMUTE, b. 15 April 1873 See Amzi Grant WINTERMUTE & Phebe C. FISHER
2. Dayton Abraham WINTERMUTE, b. 21 July 1880 See Dayton Abraham WINTERMUTE & Mary E. (?)
3. Joseph Lewzerne WINTERMUTE, b. 01 May 1876 See Joseph Lewzerne WINTERMUTE & Ella STURDEVANT
4. Mary Emma WINTERMUTE, b. 24 November 1869 See John Stanley MCWILLIAMS & Mary Emma WINTERMUTE
5. Melvin Ira WINTERMUTE, b. 13 August 1883 See Melvin Ira WINTERMUTE & Fannie O. WILCOX
6. Minnie Orpha WINTERMUTE, b. 21 April 1886
7. Rosanna WINTERMUTE, b. 16 July 1871
8. Thomas Henry WINTERMUTE, b. 08 February 1878

 

Thanks for looking, but those dates are not right. From what we know he has no children. And lived in Galion, Ohio is his later years, Southeast Ohio (near WV border, hense the artist in WV) in his early years.

 

Here is the link for the above info....Ezra was his father....
https://www.windemuth.org/Gedcom_Johann_Georg/fam995.html

 

That’s him! Thanks!

 

Yes! And Ezra was in the civil war, whose letters and diaries we have...but that’s a tangent...

 

Joseph Lewzerne WINTERMUTE, son of Ezra Dayton WINTERMUTE and Sarah Millie STEVENS , was born 01 May 1876 in Roseville, New Jersey. He died 16 April 1970 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Ella STURDEVANT was born abt. 1871 in Illinois.

Notes for Joseph Lewzerne WINTERMUTE:

• Birth: 01 May 1876 in Roseville, New Jersey.
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• Death: 16 April 1970 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
• Occupation: Carpenter Erie Railroad Company

--Other Fields
Residence: Jan. 1899 went to the Phillipines with the Army.Still in Philippines in 1900.

1930 Ohio Census has Joseph with a grandson James E, Age 11. Joseph was married at age 36 but was not found in 1920 census

Sources for Joseph Lewzerne WINTERMUTE:

1. Social Security Death Index, US
2. Ohio Deaths, 1908-19321938-19441958-2002

 

https://www.windemuth.org/Gedcom_Johann_Georg/fam7454.html
The link to joseph

 

familysearch.org

Lots of free genealogical records. And just a (general) caveat about family trees like that above. Oftentimes sloppy research gets cut, pasted and repeated so often that it becomes fact. It's always a good idea to go back to primary resources when doing family genealogy.

Debora

 

People sure had funky middle names back then, not like today with names like Moonbeam and Treefrog which are very normal.

 

Nice info but what’s still missing is anything about why he’s pictured in uniform of an Army captain. Everything I’ve read above suggests he served as an enlisted man. Anybody help me here?

 

Did they not do field promotions from enlisted to officer? I know they did in WWII.

 

If that had happened it should be reflected on the card pictured above, and I’d expect it to be mentioned somewhere in his bio. It really looks to me like the picture is of a different person. There’s a D insignia on his collar, certainly a unit insignia, but I’ll have to check around to interpret it. But neither of the infantry units mentioned on the card even have a D in the unit. This is certainly a mystery to me, all the documentation hangs together pretty well, but the picture seems totally disconnected.

 

Interesting. The linage and reason my grandfather would have that picture fits perfectly as well. I’ll post when/if we get a picture of Joseph Wintermute.

 

A lot of middle names were last names of the mother or other family last names. My husband's middle name is Richards with an s at the end because it was his g-g-g-grandfather's last name.

 

I see. I guess that's why my granny's brother's uncles cousin had a series of middle names like this?

"Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel"

 

Yes! FYI to the original poster, solar enlargements were also known as crayon portraits and were painted or colored over a faint photographic image. They didn't usually use the items that we call crayons:
http://sgarwood.com/node/52