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Joseph C. Wine (c.1832-1909) was the son of Thomas and Sarah Wine of Stafford County, Virginia.  In 1870 he paid taxes on 82 acres at Crest near Ramoth Baptist Church.  Around 1883, he moved to Fairfield, Ohio and married Catherine Bretz.  By 1887, Joseph and Catherine had returned to his Stafford farm.  She died and he married Sarah Ann  Rose (c.1860-c.1936).  Joseph C. Wine was a blacksmith by trade.