Celeste Revillon Winans

Celeste Marguerite Louise Revillon Winans (1823 – March 19, 1861) was an American philanthropist from Maryland.

[1] Celeste Marguerite Louise Revillion married Thomas De Kay Winans in Saint Petersburg on August 23, 1847.

Thomas De Kay Winans met Celeste when he travelled to Russia with his brother and George Washington Whistler to oversee his father's railroad projects in the country.

[7][8] On June 15, 1854, Celeste Winans encouraged her husband to purchase the German Evangelical Reformed Church across the street from their estate to be used as a soup kitchen for the needy.

[10] On March 19, 1861, Celeste Revillon Winans died at the age of 38, several days after giving birth to a stillborn baby.