Biography of Wellington F. Winingham - Conway Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 123

Wellington F. Winingham, one of the most ideal and practical farmers
of Lick Mountain Township, is a resident of Choctaw Township, Van
Buren County. He was born in Greene County, Arkansas, in 1838, and is
a son of Jesse and Jennie A. (Leib) Winingham, the former a native of
Tennessee, and the latter born near Springfield, Illinois. They came
with their parents to Randolph County, Arkansas, where they married,
then settled in Greene County, where they continued to reside till
1851, when they removed to Benton County, and in 1855 returned to
Randolph County, where Mrs. Winingham died in 1859. Mr. W. died about
1873, a deacon in the Missionary Baptist Church for forty years; his
wife was also a member of that church. Mr. W. was a successful farmer
and was Justice of the Peace two years in Greene County. He assisted
in removing some of the Indians to the Indian Nation. His father, Rev
Sherod Winingham was probably born in Kentucky, but was one of the
first settlers of Randolph County, Arkansas, where he died after a
successful career in the Missionary Baptist ministry for many years.
He reared a large family and was a son of Adam Winingham, who was of
Scotch-Irish descent. Grandfather Col. Daniel Leib was born and
married in Germany, but settled where Springfield, Illinois, is in a
very early day. From there he removed to Randolph County, Arkansas,
where he died in 1844. He was a mechanic and a miller and was a
Colonel in one of the German wars. He left a very handsome property at
Springfield, Illinois, but he lost it through the dishonesty of
another man. Mr. Winingham is the second of a family of five sons and
four daughters and grew to his majority without the advantage of any
schooling. At the breaking out of the late war he espoused the
Southern cause and enlisted in Company A, Seventh Arkansas Infantry,
known as "Dick Johnson's Guards," and participated in the battles of
Shiloh, Perryville (Kentucky), Murfreesboro, Chickamagua, Missionary
Ridge, through the campaign to Atlanta and back with Gen. Hood to
Tennessee, and fought at Spring Hill and many others, and was
discharged at Jacksonport, Arkansas, at the close of the war. He was
married in Crittenden County in 1867 to Mary Ayers, a daughter of
James and Mary (Henley) Ayers. Mr. Ayers was born and reared in
Tennessee but died in Crittenden County, Arkansas, in 1874. Mrs. Ayers
died in Tennessee. Mrs. Winingham was born in Shelby County,
Tennessee, and is the mother of seven children. After marriage Mr. W.
lived in Randolph County for two years, when he removed to Fulton
County, and in 1872 came to where he now resides, living in his wagon
till he could erect a cabin in the woods. He now has one of the best
farms in his township, containing 149 acres with about 75 acres under
a fine state of cultivation, He has accumulated all his effects by
constant toil and good management. He is a Democrat in politics, and
he and wife and three of the children are members of the Missionary
Baptist Church, now at Union Hill Church.