WING FAMILY HISTORY
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Publication Information
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Name of Publication:
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The Owl |
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Date of Article:
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June 1906, Vol. 7, No. 4, |
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Page of Article:
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Page 484 |
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City of Publication:
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Kewaunee |
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State/Country of Publication:
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Wisconsin |
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Article Data
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Article Text
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Letter to Joseph Smith Wing
From Amy Pettis Wing
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The following letter written 43 years ago by Mrs. Amy Pettis Wing,
of Clayton, Illinois, to her son, Dr. Joseph Smith Wing of Utah,
furnishes indubitable proof of the descent of Giles, Matthew, Ruth,
and Mary Wing of Danby, Vt., from Matthew Wing,6 (Joseph,
5 Matthew,4 Stephen,3 John,2
matthew1) as claimed by The Owl at page 141. Dr. Wing himself
is now in his 76th year and is a resident of Kingston Utah.
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Clayton, Feb. 22nd, 1862
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For Joseph S. Wing.
Dear Child:- I received your letter the last day of Dec. and was very
glad to hear from you and that you and your family are well contented.
A contented mind is a continual fortune. I also received at the same time a
letter from Betsy and Charles; they are all well. Phebe (illegible) has lost
her oldest child. We had a letter from Benj. a few days since; he is well and
talks of coming down next summer. We had a letter from Minnesota recently and
they are well. You have heard, no doubt, of the great massacre of the people
in Minn. by the Indians. They killed some 800 whites and there has been hung
some 37 of them at one time. There has been several deaths in Pike Co., this
fall - among them granny Davis, old Billy Johnson, tom Smith and his wife, Tom
Wiggins and George Taylor also.
You request me to send you a list of your dead friends, I have sent you the
whole pedigree at your request. My g. g. grandmother married a Warner. Their
children were Anna married Thomas Brown and had six children - Thomas Jr.,
Cyrus, John, Mary, Martha and Anna. Mary Brown married Matthias Button and
they had eleven - John, Matthias, Benjamin, Peter, Nathan, Molly, Anna, Martha,
Eliza, Thankful and Amy. My grandfather William Pettis married Mary Kinion:
children - Stephen , Joseph , Sarah, Elsa, Mercy, Hannah, Mary and Lucy. Stephen
married Amy Button.
Your g. grandfather Wing was Matthew: his children - Giles, Matthew, Ruth and
Molly. Giles married Mary Cornwell. His children were Samuel, John, Elizabeth,
Katherine, Joseph and Giles and Matthew. Stephen Pettis and Amy Button's children
were: Amy, Sally, Stephen, William and Nathan. Joseph Wing married Amy Pettis,
you know the rest. All the connection have been Baptist on both sides as far as I know.
We are all well as common. Byron has the whooping cough. Sarah is at home with us
and William is in the army. Her child has the cough. I sent you a tract, the title
"The Christian's Only Hope". I want you should read and consider it well. I think
if you knew all the doctrine of our faith you would respect it more than you do now.
It is trouble some times now, and I think the winding up of the dispensation is
close at hand.
We have had a very open winter only about three inches of snow at any one time
and weath mild. Wheat looks bad, but not dead. The letter I wrote last fall I
presume you have not received. I should have written sooner, but I meant to send
my likeness and the roads have been so bad I could not go to have it taken. I
will send it when I get it. Tell Sam and John they must write to me. Norman
wrote me a letter a few days ago; they are all well. You must write oftener.
From your affectionate mother,
Amy Wing
[Note all spelling as in article except were noted by me - DNW]
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Repository Information
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Ogden Family History Center (OFHC)
Call No.: (Film) 1036039
Microfiche set owned by Dale Wing |
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Notes
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Extracted by Dale Wing - Oct 3, 2002
This letter is very important in proving our genealogy. I have made a
pedigree chart of what Amy stated in the letter.
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Submitted by
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| Dale N. Wing |
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