BlockPerche Township (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2 of the account of this township in History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882. 227 words, covering 7 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter, on this part. Each one jumps to where it begins.
Parts
2 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
- Part 1
- Part 2
The chapter
227 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
William Wingo
The subject of this sketch was born in South Carolina, May 16th, 1822. He is the son of Thomas Wingo, born in Virginia, but raised in South Carolina. William, the father of Thomas Wingo, was a soldier of the revolution. The family are of Dutch ancestry. Mr. Wingo came to Missouri with his father in 1835, being then in his thirteenth year. They settled in Boone county on the place now -occupied by William. The elder Wingo was a member of the regular Baptist church. William Wingo was married to Miss Clarence D. Kelly, daughter of James Kelly. By this marriage they had three children, one son and two daughters. Mrs. Wingo dying in 1857, he married Miss Caroline Corlew, daughter of John Corlew, They had no children by this marriage. During the war Mr. Wingo spent eight months in the Confederate service. . He is a farmer, but ill early life taught school. His children are all married and settled in life, leaving him and his wife alone in the old home. His daughter, David Ella, married Marion M. Rowland. They had two children by this marriage. Mr. Rowland having died, she married Albert Wells, of Montana. They have by this marriage three children. James T. Wingo married Malinda Winn. They have four children. Henrietta maiTied James D. Fay, now of Columbia. They have four childreo.
Provenance
Text from History of Boone County, Missouri, published 1882, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.