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† Source #1: History of
Pike County, Illinois. - 1880
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WM. W. WINEGAR was born
in this place (Chambersburg) in 1844, son of John and
Freelove Winegar, his father a native of
Massachusetts and his mother of Ohio; he served three
years in the army, in Co. F, 99th Ill. Inf., being in
the siege of Vicksburg, etc.; transferred to the Army of
the Gulf; was wounded at Fort Gibson. In 1866 he
married Mary E. Breden, and they had one child,
which died in infancy; Mrs. W. died in 1867, and
in 1874 Mr. W. married Clarinda Jones, who
was born in Brown county, Ill., in1851, and they have
had one son. Since 1865 Mr. Winegar has
followed blacksmithing, with fair success. He and
his wife are members of the Christian Church. |
DR. HENRY R. WALLING was
born March 28, 1836, in Orange county, Ind., son of
James and Catherine Walling, the former a native of
Tennessee, and the latter of Orange County, Ind.
In 1852 the subject of this sketch came with his parents
to Coles county, Ill., and in February, 1854, they moved
to this county. Sept. 12, 1863, Henry R.
was married by T. M. Hess, at Homer, Ill., to
Miss S. S. Gaston, who was born Aug. 18, 1840, in
Lawrence County, Ill. Her migrations were:
at the age of three months she was taken to Cincinnati,
in 1850 to Paducah, in 1861 to Douglas county, Ill., and
in 1863 to Homer, Champaign Co., Ill. After their
marriage Mr. and Mrs. W. first settled at Arcola,
Douglas Co., where he was followed preaching for a
while; but he took to the study of medicine, which he
pursued with zeal while working his way at manual labor;
in 1866 he attended medical college in Ohio, and then
went to Mt. Vernon, Ill., where he clerked in a drug
store; he then went to Bridgeport, where he had a
driving practice; but health failing, he went to
Ǽtna, Ill., where also he
had a large practice, and in 1870 he settled at Perry in
this county, where he again preached the gospel as well
as practiced medicine. He now has a nice piece of
property in Perry.
In 1877 he moved to Louisiana, Mo., where he again
followed preaching (for the Christian denomination) and
the next year back to this place (Chambersburg), where,
Sept. 2, he opened an office and commenced business; he
also has a drug store. His wife is an intellectual
woman and a good painter of pictures. In this
family there have been born 5 children, only 2 of whom
are living. The Doctor is a Republican. |
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