WING FAMILY HISTORY
WING FAMILY HISTORY
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Publication Information
Name of Publication:  The Owl
Date of Article:  March 1923, Vol. 24, No. 2, 
Page of Article:  Page 2274 - 2275
City of Publication:  Kewaunee
State/Country of Publication:  Wisconsin, USA
Article Data
Names found in the article: Benjamin Wing, Amanda Wing, John William Wing, Joseph Smith Wing, Sarah Adeia Wright, Elizabeth Wing Boney, May Wing Fuller, Joseph Wing, Amanda Wing, F. A. McCurdy, Hugh Bonny Wing, Sophia Anna Bonny, Adelia Wing, Byron Wing
Article Text
Joseph Smith Wing
Dr. Joseph Smith Wing

     We print above the picture of Dr. Joseph Smith Wing, taken when he was 42 years of age in 1873, at which time he was prominent in the Mormon Church, living at Springerville, San Pete County, Utah. The carrer of Dr. Wing in one to conjure with. We printed what we know of his record at page 2193, and subsequently, futher information, which came to us from one of his sons, at page 2222. Neither accounts were complete. His nephew, John W. Wing, of Lehi, Utah, some years ago furnished us with this account of Dr. Wing. It was John W. who accompanied his uncle, Dr. Wing, across the plains in 1862 to enter the Morman Colony at Salt Lake.
     Dr. Joseph Smith Wing married early in youth Rebecca Davis in Pike County, Illinois, by whom he had two children, Adelia and Byron. Adelia married Mark Bony at Mt. Pleasant, San Pete County, Utah. They are both dead but have a number of children living in San Pete County. Byron married and lived near Clayton, Ill. Dr. Wing went to Black River Falls, Wis., and there engaged with his brother Benjamin in the lumber and mercantile business. They were burned out and Dr. Wing returned to Illinois. While living in Black River Falls, he married Sarah Adelia Wright and they had five children:
  (7846g) 1. Elizabeth.
  (7846h) 1. May.
  (7846i) 1. Joseph.
  (7846j) 1. Benjamin.
  (7846k) 1. Amanda.
     Dr. Wing was a successful physician and also a miner. He discovered the famous Flagstaff mines in Cottonwood Canon [Canyon - DNW], Utah, from which he realized a Considerable forune. He died about the same time his brother Benjamin died at Whitehall, Wis. His daughter Elizabeth married Joseph Boney, had two children and is now dead. His daughter May (7846g) married James Fuller, had two children, and the last known of her she was living in Butte, Montana. His son Joseph (7861i) [7846i - DNW] married a Miss Lizenbee, has a large family, and lives in Garland, Utah. His son Benjamin (7846j) also married a Lizenbee, had two children and died in Springville, Utah. His daughter Amanda married in Springville, Utah. The doctor remained in Illinois about a year or so and then, in 1862, set out for Utah.
     Among some old letters dated some years before Dr. Wing's death, written to the editor of The Owl, we find one from which we take the following extract:
     "I became satisfied that Mormonism was not a religion calculated to advance humans in the scale of being and that polygamy was contrary to the laws of Nature, and concluded to leave it. Consequently I bought city lots and the best of land in and around Springville, Utah, and built my families, four in number, good new houses, bought them stock and house furnishings amounting to over twenty thousand dollars, and went to keeping house for myself. As soon as the women found out for certain that I had left them, they joined in with their Mormon neighbors against me and set up their children against me, so that if I was likely to meet them in the street they would flee as if they thought that I would take them among the indians. Because of my leaving the Mormon church. I became completely isolated and deserted by former friends. One year and a half afterwards I again maaried a women by the name of F. A. McCurdy, who after ten or twelve years, contracted the drug habit and I secured a divorce from her. Since then I have resided by myself, doing my own house work and continuing in the practice of medicine."
     In a clipping from a Utah newspaper the following account was given of Dr. Wing's death:
     "Junction, Piute County, Utah, Nov. 4, 1906: Dr. J.S. Wing died yesterday at Kingston at the age of 86 years. He left a will which was probated yesterday, his heirs being 13 children. R. Allen is named executor of the will. His property is valued from $1500 to $1800. Dr. Wing was a highly respected citizen of Piute County and a great friend of the poor. He had lived in Kingston about eight years. He was a public spirited man, always leading out and assisting in public matters. Funeral services will be held today under the auspices of the Kingston bishopric."
     From another account which comes to us, we learn that Dr. Wing also had a son Hugh Bonny Wing (7846l), born to him by a wife named Shophia Anna (Bonny) Wing, March 15, 1873, at Springerville, Utah.

[Note all spelling as in article except were noted by me - DNW]
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