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b Van Buren County, Arkansas??? Cherokee Roll # 3214.

1910 Sebastain County AR Census: 82, 82, Hartford, Roll T624_65, part 1, pg. 151B.
Wingo, William W. 33 W M head M2 8 mine owner/driver? AR MS MS, Lennie L. 28 W F wife M1 8 4/4 AR AR AR, Thelma 7 W F dau S OK AR AR, Cecil L. 5 W M son S OK AR AR, Waunita 4 W F dau OK AR AR, Jeraldine 2 W F dau S OK AR AR

1920 Haskell County OK Census: 24, 24, Diamond, Roll T625_1462, pg. 16A, ED 30.
Wingo, Lennie 38 W F head M AR TN AR, Thelma 16 W F dau S telephone operator OK AR AR, Juanita 13 W F dau S OK AR AR, Geraldine 12 W F dau S OK AR AR, Jane 6 W F dau S OK AR AR

1930 LeFlore County OK Census: 172, 176, Poteau, Roll _1911, pg. 8A, ED 26.
Wingo, William W. 54 W M head M27 coal miner AR MS MS, Linnie L. 48 W F wife M21 AR AR AR, Jane 16 W F dau S AR AR AR, Billy B. 10 W F dau S OK AR AR, Reynolds J. 6 W M son S OK AR AR and
Wingo, Cecil R. 23 W M relative coal miner M21 OK US US, Mabel E. 21 W F relative M19 OK MS MS

1940 Latimer County OK Census: 492 O 400, Wilburton, Roll T627_3304, pg. 22B, ED 39-17.
Wingo, William W. 67 W M head H4 family lived in Poteau, LeFlore County OK in 1935 M AR, Linnie L. 57 W F wife H3 M AR, Billy B. 19 W F dau C2 stenographer S OK, Ronnie G. 16 W M son H1 attended school S IL

WPA Intervied with William W. Wingo by Bradley Bolinger #6756 An Interview with W. W. Wingo, a retired stock raiser and farmer EARLY DAY WHITE SETTLER

My father and mother died, and were buried in the State of Arkansas, when I was a great big boy, along in the year of 1886. I then settled in what was just a little settlement named Hartshorne. My brother lived there, and his name was Sam Wingo; he was a United States Marshal then. He also got to be company marshal for the new Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad that came through this nation along in 1890.
One of the first coal mines that was opened around Hartshorne was called shaft No. 1 and it was being started in that year. There were not more than two or three houses in Hartshorne at this time. After coal was found there, there were a lot of white settlers who moved to this place, and just built tents to work in the new mine.
None of the Choctaw Indians ever came or wanted work in this coal mine as they knew nothing about mining and never did ask for work. Along about that time there were a lot of Choctaws who were divided in their agreement on the land allotment. Many of the tribe were against this, and did not want the land allotted, just so much to each Indian citizen, and there was a lot of trouble in and around Gaines County over this. Lots of fighting and killigs took place, but this was finally quited down and the whole tribe accepted the allotment.
The Choctaw Tribe was a peaceful tribe of Indians, and there never was a great deal of trouble throughout the whole tribe. The Choctaws were pretty honest, there was very little stealing in the way of hogs and cattle in those days by the Choctaws. The Choctaws did not want a jail or a prison. When they tried one in their Indian court he was immediately taken out in the yard and given a whipping and turned loose to go back home. The Choctaws in those days did very little farming and their wives did all this work themselves. They only raised a little patch of corn for their bread and Tom-Fuller. It was the duty of the husband to go out hunting and furnish the meat and lard for the family. the country at that time was full of wild game.
J. J. McAlestar operated a trading post where the town of North McAlester is now located. He was the first man to build a barb wire fence anywhere in the country then.
When the white settlers came to the Indian country and got permits to live here they were only allocated ten head of cattle. Some of the white settlers who were raising cattle to sell and trade managed to have their nearest Indian neighbors let them use their names in order that they could raise all the stock that they wanted.
The Choctaws would gather in great numbers then and have what they called the indian cry. That is when they mourned the dead members of their families. They would bring enough food to last them several days and cook, eat, and sleep out in the open. There would be a Choctaw minister and sometimes several of them, and they would hold church and then the women would cook something to eat. They would go to the graves and wail and cry fo sometimes an hour at a time. It was customary with the Choctaws tribe that no Indian man or worman who had lost their mate through death would even think of selecting another mate until he or she had attended the grave of the buried mate and had the Indian cry over him or her.

Birth	22 Sep 1875	Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA
Marriage	20 Apr 1903	Sebastian County, Arkansas, USA - Lennie Llewellyn NICHOLS
Burial	Mar 1956	Wilburton City Cemetery, Wilburton, Latimer County, Oklahoma, USA
Death	1 Mar 1956	Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA

Spouse	Lennie Llewellyn NICHOLS (1881 - 1948)
Child	Thelma Beryl WINGO (1903 - 1942)
Child	Cecil Lavern WINGO Sr. (1905 - 1968)
Child	Juanita Winifred WINGO (1906 - 1991)
Child	Geraldine Gladys WINGO (1907 - 1992)
Child	Vivian Ione WINGO (1914 - 1995)
Child	Billie Burke WINGO (1920 - 2002)
Child	Ronald James "Ronnie" WINGO ( - )
Child	William Royce WINGO ( - )

Father	Willis Pickney "Willis Palmer" WINGO (1821 - 1892)
Mother	Lucy Caroline WINTER (1832 - 1893)
Sibling	Mary WINGO (1855 - 1860)
Sibling	Edwin Pinkney "Ed" WINGO (1857 - 1935)
Sibling	Anna "Annis and Alma" WINGO (1860 - 1932)
Sibling	Samuel L. "Sam" WINGO (1861 - 1890)
Sibling	Emma WINGO (1864 - 1880)
Sibling	Lucy Caroline "Carrie" WINGO (1866 - 1880)
Sibling	Willis WINGO (1868 - 1928)
Sibling	Lee WINGO (1872 - 1880)
Sibling	Maud Fry WINGO (1877 - 1962)