Individual Details

1850 Jackson County AL Census: 46, 46, Dist. 21. Pg. 107, Roll M432_7.
Wingo, Robert 8 M AL some schooling during year, William 13 M AL some schooling during year, in household of
Garner, John K. 66 M farmer NC cannot read or write, Ruth 60 F NC, Mary 24 F AL , William T. 20 M laborer AL some schooling within year and
Garner, John W. 23 M laborer AL married within year; Nancy E. 15 F AL married within year.

1860 Tishomingo County MS Census: 2720, 2720, Iuka PO, pg. 377, Roll M653_593.
Wings, Robert 17 M farm laborer AL with
Roland, George 40 M head blacksmith $2,500 $1,000 TN, Mary 36 F wife AL, Charles P. 9 M son MS, Sidney E. 8 M MS, Senom G. 6 F MS, Robert 4 M MS, Mary 3 F MS, George P. 6/12 M MS and
Wimoy, Tennessee 17 F MS

Wingo, R. B. joined Co. F, 10th Reg't Alabama Cavalry on March 1, 1863 in Barton, (Colbert County, AL) as a private for a 3 year tour. Later became part of the Co. F, 11 Reg't Alabama Cavalry.

1866 State of AL Census: Franklin County T6R11, pg. 90/ pg. 27.
Wingo, Robert Males: 1 = over 20, number of males = 1, total = 1.

1870 Madison County AL Census: 248, 243, Madison PO, T14 R18, Roll M593_27, pg. 177.
Wingo, Robert 27 W M at home AL with
William J. Garner 38 W M farmer $0 $500 AL, Laura Garner 27 wife W F k-h AL

1880 Limestone County AL Census: -, 109, 109, T4R3, Roll T9_20, pg. 12, ED 190.
Wingo, Robert 38 W M Self Miller S AL AL AL

Limestone County Alabama R. B. Wingo
DEEDS
Vol 24 1882-87 pg. 330
Vol. 45 1892-94 pg. 133
Vol. 53 1895-97 pg. 496, 498
Vol. 58 1897-04 pg. 294, in 1998 sold to W. T. Garner

Limestone County Alabama Records
General Store Docket 1865-1882 pg. 567, 1163.
Chancery Court Loose File pg. 640.
State Final Record 1897-1907 pg. 43.

1899 Limestone County AL from The Alabama Courier October 5, 1899, pg. 3, column E Athens Alabama

John Johnston, a Negro assalts Mr. Robert Wingo and Tries to Murder him - Robbery the Motive - Johnston in Jail
Mr. Robert Wingo, an aged bachelor, keeps a little store on the Floyd place to furnish hands through this section, carrying a small stock. He lives in the store where he was assaulted. Last Friday night this negro Johnston visited the store and asked to be sold a piece of bacon. Mr. Wingo went to cut the meat and while in a stooping position, the negro hit him from behind with a pair of heavy shop tongs, the blow felling the old man, after which the negro struck him a number of severe blows, any of which were ordinarily sufficient to produce death, but fortunately they did not, and after lying in an unconscious condition all of Saturday and until some time Sunday he rallied sufficiently to tell the story of the crime and Will Roberts, constable for that section, went after the would-be murder and found him at the home of his father on one of Mr. W. N. Richardson's farms late Sunday afternoon and carried him to the scene of his crime and he was at once recognized and condemned by the half-murdered man. Then it was a wild ride for town that Constable Roberts had to prevent an angry croud from administering a swift and sure punishment to the black assain. By 8 o'clock Sunday night the negro was safely housed in the county jail with a desperate charge staring him in the face. He is about 25 years of age and this is not his first effort at crime. He secured about $4 from the pockets and cash drawer of Mr. Wingo.

1900 Limestone County AL from The Alabama Courier January 25, 1900 pg. 3, column C, Athens Alabama

John Gus Johnston The Negro Who Brutally Beat Mr. Robert Wingo and Robbed Him Gets Ten Years at Hard Labor --- A Light Sentence.
A trial of more than usual interest was had in the circuit court last week. It was the trial of John Gus Johnston, the negro who so cruelly beat and robbed Mr. Robert Wingo in his store on the Floyd place last September. The trial lasted for two days and every inch of the ground was contested by both the state and the defendent. The defendent was represented by Messrs Erle Pettus and James E. Horton, Jr., two able young lawyers of this place, and in the case both maiden speeches in behalf of their colored client. They both received deserved and merited compliments on their first efforts in the court. They had a hard case and handled it with consumate skill and their client is indebted to them for possibly saving his life. The case was a most aggrevated one. John was a young negro with a bad record who lives in that section of the county and had served a term in the coal mines for stealing and had not long been out when he spent the last day of September loitering about the country store of Mr. Robert Wingo a respected and popular country merchant in that section of the county. Several times during the day Mr. Wingo asked him if he wanted anthing and he always replied that he did not. When night came John still remained about the store. It grew cool late in the afternoon and Mr. Wingo made him a little fire in the stove and John came in from the yard and stood about the stove until it was time to close the store and he was asked to leave as it was closing time. Mr. Wingo went to the door with his hand on the key and one on the door waiting for John to leave. He stood about and wanted credit but was refused and then he started as if to leave and when he came along side of Mr. Wingo he felled him like an ox with a heavy pair of shop tongs, such are used by a blacksmith in his shop work. Not content with striking him one blow he rained seven of them on the gray head of his fallen prey and after thinking his victim dead he robbed him of what money he had on his person and then robbed the cash drawer and fled the place. His arrest and identification followed and on the trial last he was again positively identified by Mr. Wingo The state was ably represented by Capt. Ben. M. Sowell and Mr. William Hundley. The jury soon returned a verdict finding him guilty and setting his punishment at ten years in the pentitentiary, a very light sentence for the enormous crime. Under the law they could have sentenced him to death and yet not gone beyond their powers. John gets off lightly. Death for such a crime is a more fitting punishment and would have had a much better effect. But John will grow wiser and be well fed and clothed for the next ten years.

1900 Limestone County AL Census: 110, 110, Greenbrier, Roll T623_26, pg. 6A, ED 95.
Wingo, Robert B. 56 b Nov 1844 W M boarder S AL AL AL with
Cooley, Charles 45 b Nov 1854 W M head farmer GA SC AL

1910 Calhoun County AL Census: 2, 218, 218, Anniston, Roll T624_4, pg. 11B, ED 19.
Wingo, R. B. 66 W M brother S AL AL AL with
Wingo, J. W. 71 W M head M1 55 pedler and gardner AL AL AL, Ida 33 W F dau S AL AL AL

1920 Chilton County AL Census: 248, 257, Verbena, Roll T625_6, pg. 13A, ED 43.
Wingo, Robert B. 75 W M Inmate S AL AL AL in Alabama Soldiers Home

Alabama Certificate of Death #7753 April 13, 1925 Confederate Soldiers Home Chilton, Mt. Creek, Chilton County, Alabama White, Single, no info on parents, born Alabama
buried in Soldiers Cemetery April 14, 1925.

from Alabama Confederate Memorial Park Cemetery List (Confederate Cemetery # 2)
Alabama Soldiers including :
Wingo, Robert Booker Pvt., Co. A, 11 Ala. Cav.

Birth	Nov 1844	Lawrence County, Alabama, USA
Death	13 Apr 1925	Mountain Creek, Chilton County, Alabama, USA

Father	John Booker WINGO (1815 - 1864)
Mother	Sarah "Sallie" GARNER (1814 - 1850)
Sibling	John William WINGO (1838 - 1912)
Sibling	Unknown WINGO (1841 - 1850)