Individual Details

1880 Davidson County TN Census: 160, 162, dist. 22, Roll T9_1251, pg. 19, ED 81.
Wings, Plens. 23 W M son engineer S TN TN TN with
Wings, James T. 52 W M self sawyer M TN VA VA, Sallie 53 W F wife k-h M TN VA VA, Thom 22 W M son farmer S TN TN TN, Charlie 20 W M son farmer S TN TN TN, Anna 18 W F dau at school attended school S TN TN TN, Tennie 15 W F dau at school attended school S TN TN TN, Jimmie 13 W M dau at school attended school S TN TN TN, Evie 9 W F dau at school attended school S TN TN TN and
Warren, A. H. R. 79 W F mother in law Wd TN TN TN


Pleasant L. Wingo was the first of three of James T. Wingo's sons to meet with a violent death. He was shot to death with his own gun, a double barrel muzzle loading shot gun. His second wife, Lucinda Vaughn Elliston, said she killed Pleasant in self defense, but there were those who doubted her story. To the doubters she was a "bad woman", and they believed that a man she was seeing actually shot Pleasant when he came home unexpectedly and caught the man in the house with Lucy. They theorized that the man had grabbed Pleasant's gun from its rack on the wall and shot him. Regardless of who did the shooting, Pleasant's brains were literally blown out. People who went to the scene of the tragedy gave accounts of Pleasant's brains having fried on the top of a nearby stove, and one of their children, a crawling baby, having some of the brains in its mouth. The killing took place in a house in back of Frank Tate's log house on Dividing Ridge Road. The house in which Pleasant was killed was used as a hay barn in later years and Frank Tate's house burned. In 1986 Noah Ferrill Wingo told Tracy Robb that the man suspected of shooting Pleasant was Jim Tate.

Birth	12 Nov 1854
Marriage	27 Feb 1882	Davidson County, Tennessee, USA - Lamiza PRECHE
Marriage	7 Jan 1887	Robertson County, Tennessee, USA - Living
Death	1888	Robertson County, Tennessee, USA

Spouse	Living
Child	Alexander "Alex" WINGO (1882 - 1966)
Child	Mary WINGO (1888 - )
Child	Benjamin Franklin WINGO (1884 - 1957)

Spouse

Living

Spouse	Living
Child	Carrie WINGO (1889 - )
Child	Pauline WINGO (1889 - )

Spouse

Lamiza PRECHE (1862 - 1886)

Father	James T. WINGO (1828 - 1884)
Mother	Sarah Munford WARREN (1827 - 1899)
Sibling	William Mumford WINGO (1849 - 1895)
Sibling	John R. WINGO (1851 - )
Sibling	Benjamin Zachariah WINGO ( - )
Sibling	Thomas T. WINGO (1858 - 1904)
Sibling	James WINGO (1859 - )
Sibling	Charles Wesley WINGO (1860 - 1913)
Sibling	Sarah Anne WINGO (1862 - 1883)
Sibling	Nancy Tennessee WINGO (1864 - 1889)
Sibling	George WINGO (1865 - )
Sibling	Jennie WINGO (1865 - )
Sibling	James Henry "Jimmie" WINGO (1867 - 1886)
Sibling	Susan Evaline "Evie" WINGO (1871 - 1906)
Sibling	J. T. WINGO (1883 - 1883)