Individual Details

1880 Davidson County TN Census: 160, 162, dist. 22, Roll T9_1251, pg. 19, ED 81.
Wings, Thom 22 W M son farmer 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, Plens. 23 W M son engineer 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

poss thomas B. and Alice 1900

Thomas T. Wingo was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, Jeff Oats, during the Christmas season of 1904. Oats claimed he shot Tom in self defense and was cleared of any wrong doing in the matter. However, some people believed that Oats had ambushed Tom. They believed that Oats had hidden in wait in the loft above the living room of Tom's house and fired down upon him. They held this view because there ware powder burns down the left side of the victom's face and the path of the load which entered at the top of the ribs and traveled downward into his heart. But Mr. Doak Morgan who served on the coroner's jury in later years told Hartwell H. Robb that he believed that Oats in fact had acted in self defense. It was his opinion that the location of the powder burns and the path of the bullet were the results of Tom's position when he was shot. He believed that Tom was after Oats and that they were crouching on opposite sides of a large heating stove with a drum top design and that Oats fired while Tom bent forward. Both men had pistols and it was reported that Tom fired three shots at Oats after he was hit. Jeff Oats came to Ridgetop where he called the Robertson County Sheriff to whom he surrendered. Tracy Robb was told by N. F. Wingo that the violent event started over a bag of candy. Chances are that alcohol was involved also. Tom Wingo's house which was later destroyed by fire was located on South Sycamore Creek in Robertson County just below the dam constructed in latter years to impound Browns Lake.

Birth	27 Jan 1858
Death	1904
Marriage	1905	Living

Spouse	Living
Child	John B. WINGO (1905 - )

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	Pleasant Lorenzo WINGO (1854 - 1888)
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)