Just located more of my bio-dad's history! Yippee! The Winters family rediscovered in: guess where?!! Etowah Heritage Museum!
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-4000
Library holds manuscript collections, books, periodicals, maps, newspapers, audiovisual materials, and more than 20,000 photographs on subjects such as southeastern Native Americans, American wars, African American history, the state of Alabama, northeast Alabama, and Etowah
Actually, I discovered this particular line of the Winters family first at FamilySearch.org, which in turn had marriage certificates and the like!
