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Annual Membership Meeting Agenda
Annual Membership Meeting Agenda June 21, 2025 10:00 AM EDT Hybrid: Gettysburg/Zoom  Zoom connection https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85152457...
Wing Family of America
May 311 min read
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February Guessing Game Winners
The February Wing Museum item was a Butter Paddle! The race between first and second place was close! Steve and Bonnie Schow (left)...
Wing Family of America
May 11 min read
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Deaccessioned Items Offered to WFA Members
The Wing Family of America has made some big changes in the past few years. We acquired the home across the street from the Fort House,...
Wing Family of America
May 13 min read
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Ownership of the Wing Ring Cemetery Being Transferred to the Town of Wayne
by Buzz Schultze, President of The Wing Ring Cemetery Co (WRCC) After 162 years of being owned and maintained by Wing Family members,...
Buzz Schultze
May 12 min read
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Wings in Love: A Wing Cousin Makes a Connection back to England
By Dan Douglas In January 1969, I was sitting in the staff room at a secondary school in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana in southern...
Dan Douglas
May 14 min read
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, shaped by architect John F. Wing
By Terry Davis Some people leave a lasting legacy in their words. Others through their deeds. John Frank Wing, a fifth great-grandson of...
Terry Davis
May 13 min read
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Alligators and Ostriches: The Story of Sara Emma Tolmie and Alligator Joe
By Elizabeth Fulford Every once in a while, the Wing Family tree adds an exotic leaf. This happened in December 1900 when a Sarah Emma...
Elizabeth Fulford
May 14 min read
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May 2025 President's Message
Y’all, I love the Springtime!  This season fills the heart with all the possibilities of the year.  All the new life that surrounds us...
Melanie Hendrix
May 12 min read
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Help Us Make the Wing Family of America Scholarship a Reality – Donate Auction Items!
The Wing Family of America is committed to supporting the education and growth of our next generation, and this year, we’re working hard...
Wing Family of America
Mar 172 min read
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Winner of the "Guess an Item" Contest! - November 2024
The November Wing Museum item was a rushlight:  This must have been a hard one: we had only two responses! Brittany Olson was the first...
Wing Family of America
Jan 281 min read
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Wing Love Story: Advertising pays off in a big way
By Terry Davis There is an old saying among advertising reps in the newspaper field, “In good times you should advertise, but in hard...
Terry Davis
Jan 283 min read
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Wing Love Stories: Sumner & Sylvia
First, it’s important to know that I’m a J. R. R. Tolkien fan and have been since I was a teenager.
Sumner Hunnewell
Jan 283 min read
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A Reporter for Lincoln: Henry E. Wing
Samuel Brackett Wing was not the only Wing who encountered the horror of the Battle of the Wilderness.Â
Cyndy Doherty
Jan 283 min read
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Samuel Brackett Wing – A True Survivor
amuel Brackett Wing married Mary Lufkin in 1857. He describes their first meeting in his book “The Soldiers Story: A Personal Narrative of
Cyndy Doherty
Jan 285 min read
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President’s Letter - February 2025
Greetings My Friends and Family! It seems like I haven’t talked to you since last year! Oh so many happenings have been happening. My...
Melanie Hendrix
Jan 272 min read
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Brick Wall Request from Barbara Wallace Reynales
I am seeking a document showing the birthplaces of Clark Richardson and his daughter, Lorinda Richardson, second wife of Rev. David Wing.Â
Wing Family of America
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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Guessing game winners - August 2024
The August Wing Museum item was a fly catcher!  Once again, we had 11 responses – but from a different 11 cousins! You have to be...
Wing Family of America
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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Michael Wing elected to Lancaster, Ohio City Council at Age 27
On November 7, 2023, Michael Wing was elected as an at-large member of the City Council in the City of Lancaster, Ohio at the age of 27.
Wing Family of America
Nov 10, 20242 min read
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Carlton Vann Wing
Carlton Vann Wing, North Little Rock, Arkansas, was elected to the Arkansas State House of Representatives in 2016 beginning a two-year term
Gayle Wing
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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Francis Lyman Wing – Mayor of Tampa
Francis Lyman Wing, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1868, was the third son of Lyman Wing and Hannah Howland.Â
George V. Wing
Nov 10, 20242 min read
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