Individual Details
William WINGO
(21 Jan 1822 - 26 Sep 1843)
8/21/1822 - 9/26/1845...
Probate Record SC or MS??? see John D. (brother)...
Died at a young age while studing medicine.
from the first edition of the Spartan published Friday December 1843...
OBITUARY OF WILLIAM WINGO
"It is our painful duty to notify the Public of the demise of William Wingo, who departed this life at the residence of his brother, in Spartanburg Village, on the 26th of September last. When those whose heads are blanched with the snows of old age, and are bending under an accumulation of years, fall by the relentless hand of Death, our sympathies, if excited from considerations of friendship, or from a dispensation of those benevolence and charities with which their lives wee peculiarly distinguished are soon allayed, and our minds, tranquilized with the thought that they reached that form in human life which has been enstamped on humanity. But when a breach in the youthful circle is made by the entrance of the grim monster, when the young heart, warm from looking on the bright visions of futurity, and full of unsuspecting confidence and expectations high, is rendered pulseless by the icy hand of death, when he on whose cheek is planted the rose of health and the bloom of youth, in whose face are seen promises of a long and happy life, lies before us a stiffened and lifeless corpse, it is then that the words of the immortal Arthor of midnight dreams, fall, with redoubled force into our hearts.
In human hears, what bolder thought can rise
Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn!
Where is tomorrow? In another world.
For Members this is certain: the reverse
Is sure to come: and yet on this perhaps
This peradventure, infamous for lieu.
As on a rodk of Adamant, we build
Our mountain hopes, spin out eternal schemes,
And, big with life's futurities, expire.
Such was rhe case with the subject of this Obituary -- Scarecely had he reached his twenty-first year, ere a host of ardent friends and respected relatives were assembled to witness him as he gasped the embrace of death. And much cause have they for lamentation. As a brother, he was kind and affectionate / as a friend, generous and highminded, as a scholar, unexcelled, for the opportunities which were afforded him.
For two yrs. previous to his death he had been engaged in the prosecution of the study of medicine. During that time he made a proficiency in his studies, which evidenced not only an endowment by nature, with an intellect of a highorder, but also that he would one day acquire a distinction which few strive to obtain, and many might envy. But, alas his caree was a short one --. While looking forward under the excitement of a laudable ambition to a completion of his professional course, he was attacked by a malignant fever, of which he died in two weeks. Though the condolement of friends and the sympathizing Pulic are insufficient to comfort then under their bereavement and to repair the irreparable loss which they have sustained in the death of their Brother and Kinsman, yet they should remember that our God is a God of mercy, his ways inscrutible, and his dispensation, however afflictive, are ordained for our good."
Probate Record SC or MS??? see John D. (brother)...
Died at a young age while studing medicine.
from the first edition of the Spartan published Friday December 1843...
OBITUARY OF WILLIAM WINGO
"It is our painful duty to notify the Public of the demise of William Wingo, who departed this life at the residence of his brother, in Spartanburg Village, on the 26th of September last. When those whose heads are blanched with the snows of old age, and are bending under an accumulation of years, fall by the relentless hand of Death, our sympathies, if excited from considerations of friendship, or from a dispensation of those benevolence and charities with which their lives wee peculiarly distinguished are soon allayed, and our minds, tranquilized with the thought that they reached that form in human life which has been enstamped on humanity. But when a breach in the youthful circle is made by the entrance of the grim monster, when the young heart, warm from looking on the bright visions of futurity, and full of unsuspecting confidence and expectations high, is rendered pulseless by the icy hand of death, when he on whose cheek is planted the rose of health and the bloom of youth, in whose face are seen promises of a long and happy life, lies before us a stiffened and lifeless corpse, it is then that the words of the immortal Arthor of midnight dreams, fall, with redoubled force into our hearts.
In human hears, what bolder thought can rise
Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn!
Where is tomorrow? In another world.
For Members this is certain: the reverse
Is sure to come: and yet on this perhaps
This peradventure, infamous for lieu.
As on a rodk of Adamant, we build
Our mountain hopes, spin out eternal schemes,
And, big with life's futurities, expire.
Such was rhe case with the subject of this Obituary -- Scarecely had he reached his twenty-first year, ere a host of ardent friends and respected relatives were assembled to witness him as he gasped the embrace of death. And much cause have they for lamentation. As a brother, he was kind and affectionate / as a friend, generous and highminded, as a scholar, unexcelled, for the opportunities which were afforded him.
For two yrs. previous to his death he had been engaged in the prosecution of the study of medicine. During that time he made a proficiency in his studies, which evidenced not only an endowment by nature, with an intellect of a highorder, but also that he would one day acquire a distinction which few strive to obtain, and many might envy. But, alas his caree was a short one --. While looking forward under the excitement of a laudable ambition to a completion of his professional course, he was attacked by a malignant fever, of which he died in two weeks. Though the condolement of friends and the sympathizing Pulic are insufficient to comfort then under their bereavement and to repair the irreparable loss which they have sustained in the death of their Brother and Kinsman, yet they should remember that our God is a God of mercy, his ways inscrutible, and his dispensation, however afflictive, are ordained for our good."
Events
| Birth | 21 Jan 1822 | Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA | |||
| Death | 26 Sep 1843 | ||||
| Burial | Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Roebuck, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA |
Families
| Father | Ransom WINGO (1787 - 1838) |
| Mother | Mary "Polly" DODD (1795 - 1840) |
| Sibling | James Henry WINGO (1812 - 1884) |
| Sibling | Sheriff T. Alexander WINGO (1814 - 1864) |
| Sibling | Nancy WINGO (1815 - ) |
| Sibling | Oliver Perry WINGO (1816 - 1878) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Betsy" WINGO (1818 - 1880) |
| Sibling | John D. WINGO (1823 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary "Polly" WINGO (1825 - 1870) |
| Sibling | Thomas Jefferson WINGO (1827 - 1912) |
| Sibling | Sarah Jane WINGO (1828 - 1905) |