THE WINGO FAMILY IN AMERICA

Mother worked in the textile mills in Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama at the time and was finally persuaded by my father to marry him and stay in Eastaboga. I think it was an ultimatum.

My parents had an argument ten years earlier and mother had left her parents home in Eastaboga to live with her mother's step mother and her mother's step sister and step brother in Roanoke. Mother and her aunt, Hattie Brown became close friends. Aunt Hattie was only two years older than mother. She and mother worked in the textile mills in Roanoke and they lived in the mill village.

Mother's parents had lived in Florida during most of the years since she moved away so she and dad had not seen each other very often. Her parents had moved back to Eastaboga and she was visiting them for the holidays during Christmas in 1938 and her visit was about over. Dad had kept in touch over the years through the correspondence between mother and a sister of Dad's who was mother's best friend. Dad was five years older than mother and mother and Dad's sister have chaperoned some of Dad's dates.

Mother, her sister and oldest brother This picture was taken in the 1910's	Mother, her Father and Mother, her sister and three brothers This picture was taken in the 1930's	Mother, her Father, two brothers and a nephew This picture was taken in the 1930's in Florida	Mother This picture was taken in the 1930's	Mother This picture was taken in the 1940's

Mother, Father and my younger Brother This picture was taken in the 1950's	Mother This picture was taken in the 1890's	Mother This picture was taken in the 1990's