Biographical Sketch Edmund T. Wingo, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Col. Edmund T. Wingo, attorney at law and justice of the peace, of
Salem, was born in Amelia County, Va., December 23, 1818 and is the
son of John and Mary (Hutchings) Wingo.  John Wingo was born in
Ameila County, Va., in 1788 and was of English descent.  He was the
son of John Wingo, Sr., who was a native of England.  John Wingo, Jr.,
was a farmer by occupation, and in 1829 his wife and six children went
to Missouri with her brother, Charles Hutchings, who located in Wash-
ington County, Mo.  John Wingo remained behind to dispose of some
property and settle up business; was taken sick, and died in 1830.
The same year his widow moved to Madison County, Mo., and bought a
farm, where she died about 1832.  After her death the children remain-
ed with their uncle until 1837, when Edmund T. went to Montgomery Co.,
Tenn., to live with his uncle, John Hutchings and attend school. The
following year he returned to his birth place in Virginia, and contin-
ued going to school, living with his uncle, William Green, who had
married a Hutchings.  In 1844 he graduated from William and Mary's
College at Williamsburg, Va., and received a diploma to practice law,
practicing for fifteen months in Amelia.  He then moved to Liberty,
Bedford Co., Va., and in January, 1846 was married to Miss Mary J. 
Fizer, a native of Bedford County, Va., born in 1822.  One child was
born to this marriage, Jacob W., who is now deputy postmaster of Salem,
Mo.  In May, 1847, Mrs. Wingo died, and Mr. Wingo went to Botetourt
County, Va., where he taught a four months' term of school.  In Sept-
ember, 1850 he married Miss Sarah Stull, a native of Botetourt Co.,
Va., born in 1808.  In the fall of 1850 he returned to Washington Co.,
Mo., with his wife and nine negroes.  At the end of six months he sold 
all his negroes except one, and returned to Virginia, where he remained
until 1857, when he again came back to Missouri, but this time located
in Salem, where he resumed the practice of law, in which business he
has since been engaged.  In 1860 he organized a cavalry company in Dent
County, and in 1861 he organized the First Regiment, Seventh Division
Missouri State Guard, and he was elected colonel of the same.  In 1862
he was commissioned brigadier-general of the Seventh Division Missouri
State Guard, and at the battle of Lexington he was shot in the right
shoulder while dismounting from his horse.  He was with his regiment
until it was disorganized, which occured in 1862.  Col. Wingo is a man
now in the evening of life, and is as highly esteemed and as universal-
ly respected as any man in the county.  He is a man of fine legal
ability, good judgement, and is scrupulously honest.  He has a pleasant
disposition, is courteous and accommodating, and is a man who is fond 
of a joke and is witty in giving them.  He has been a life long Demo-
crat, casting his first presidential vote for Gen. Cass in 1848.  He 
has been in official life the greaterportion of his days; was lieuten-
ant of militia in Virginia, a notary public; was a Douglas elector in 
1860; was elected to the State Legislature in 1862, and is now justice
of the peace.  Col. Wingo's second wife died April 14, 1886, and in 
October of the same year he married Miss Lucinda E. Wheeling, who was
born in Washington Co., Mo., in 1842, and who is a member of the 
Baptist Church.  Col. Wingo is a pleasing and forcible speaker, and he
has been one of the most influential men of Dent County; was a candi-
date for the nomination of circuit judge, and carried Dent Co., Mo., by
a large majority, but was defeated in foreign counties.  The number of
votes he has always commanded in Dent County illustrates to a nicety
his high standing among his own people.  He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and is a strong believer in the Christian faith, and is
very charitable and liberal in giving to laudable enterprises.

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