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MELANCHTON  WINGROVE
from Ontario to Washington

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   SUBMITTED BY: Donald Wingrove   EMAIL: dowingrove@aol.com

   DATE:  July 13, 2000                    AREA: USA, State of Washington 

   My grandfather Melancthon Wingrove was born in Hamilton, Ontario  
   [09 August 1855;  Headstone b. 1855 - d. 1937 ]
 I have never heard of him being in Australia, but it is possible.  He didn't say much, and I was just 14 when he died 1937. He married Jane Gormley who was born March 9, 1857 and died in 1940. Melancthon worked as a millwright in a Seattle lumber and retired some time before I was born. He then went to work for the City of Seattle, Washington caring for the city's horses. When the city switched to trucks he went to work as a custodian for a local Baptist Church. He walked everywhere. My grandfather built a playhouse for me and my sister, and I still have a small rocking chair that he made for my dad.

Here is the tabulation of Melancthon's descendants:

My father John Wingrove was born August 21, 1885 in Napa, California. He died in 1951 
  He was the oldest of 4 children. 
 They were - Josephine Wingrove, 
                  Winifred Wingrove and 
                  Annabelle Wingrove.  
                  None of my father's sisters had children.  
 Annabelle married Harry Bergman.  
 Jo worked and lived at home taking care of her mother.  
 Winifred joined the convent and incidentally created the only argument I ever heard between my mother and dad.  It seemed the family had to provide a trunk and habits for novice nuns, and in the midst of the depression, that wasn't easy. My grandparents quarrel over the same incident resulted in my aunt Jo and grandmother moving out. My grandfather went to their rental unit every day and carried in coal and took out the ashes. 
My mother was an only child, therefore my sister and I did not have any cousins.

My father married Flora Osman in November 1918.  
      My sister Jane Elizabeth Wingrove was born on March 9, 19xx.  
      She married Luke Kimes in the late 1940's.  
     They had 3 children - David Kimes 
                                  Susan Kimes and 
                                  Peter Kimes 
       David has 3 children and lives in the Seattle area.  
       He works for Bill Gates checking out the electronics in the Gates home.
      Susan has 2 girls and her husband works for Microsoft.   
      Peter has 2 children and lives in Gilbert, Arizona. 
 
     My sister Jane died in 1961.

I married Audrey Despain - a week after being discharged from the Marine Corps - October 5, 1945.  
     We had 2 children 
         - a daughter Carol Wingrove born on July 8, 19xx, and 
           a son Kenneth Bryan Wingrove born on September 14, 19xx
                My son prefers to use his middle name - Bryan and 
               yet named his first son Kenneth Bryan Jr

       My daughter married Dave Keller on June 11, l9xx.  
      They have 2 children - a son Joel, born on November 18, 19xx, and a
                                     daughter Kim, born on March 9, 19xx.  
      March 9 was my grandmother's birthday, as well as my sister's & Kim's

      Joel Keller works for a bank in Seattle and just completed his work
        for a Master's degree from the same university where I received mine.
     Kim Keller is an RN in a hospital in Yakima, Washington.  
     David Keller is a high school math teacher in Ellensberg, Washington.

My son Bryan married Jean Brownsel .  
      They had 2 children: 
                             Kenneth Bryan Jr Wingrove, born on February 27, 19xx -
                                  Ken joined the navy right out of high school,
                                  and lives in San Diego.
                       Kelly Wingrove was born on October 6, 19xx.
                                 She is our only grandchild who is married.  
                                 She has 4 children:  Cory Sapic
                                                     twins Jason and Elizabeth Sapic  
                                  and a new baby girl, Thea Sapic  
                           Kelly and her husband and children live in Warren Ohio 

     Jean Brownsel Wingrove was killed in an automobile accident in Germany in 1980.  Burial in Sunset Hills Memorial Park Bellevue King County Washington, USA. My son Bryan was in the army at the time.  
     He remarried and had 2 children:  
                                   Heather Wingrove, born November 3, 19xx and 
                                   Janelle Wingrove    born December 18, 19xx
    He and his second wife are divorced.  
    He drives an 18 wheeler all over the U.S.

   My wife Audrey Despain Wingrove died in 1997.  

   Sincerely, Don Wingrove