WINGROVES of the WIDE WORLD ~ USA
from
French Creek Presbyterian Church
page 62; published 1971 McClain Publishing Company, Parsons West Virginia
THADDEUS WINGROVE
…ried Mayme Phillips, daughter of George and Estelle (Young) Phillips. They had one son, Lyle, who married Agnes Simmons.
Thad was a carpenter and paperhanger, and spent most of his life in the area except for a few years when he lived in Ohio. His son Lyle moved to Ohio after the death of his father, and worked in Ashtabula, where they owned a home. Lyle was accidentally killed when returning from a neighborhood store with a grandson whom he had taken to the store to buy candy. He saved the child but was himself killed by the automobile which stuck him, in front of his own home.
Thaddeus P. Wingrove is a name that has been identified with West Virginia community life for considerably more than a century. The first American ancestor of the French Creek citizen named above was John Wingrove, who was born in England, about 1750. He came to America at the age of 17, lived in Vermont, where he married, and later moved to Virginia, establishing his home in Marshall County, where he lived out his life. His son, William Wingrove, was founder of the family in Upshur county and was a millwright by trade. His son Harrison Wingrove married Maria Peebles (daughter of Patrick) and they were parents of Marshall P Wingrove, who was born in Braxton County, W. Va.
Thad Wingrove was born near French Creek, April 9, 1871. He grew up there, attended the public schools and also attended the U. B. Academy at Buckhannon. Since leaving college his years have been steadily devoted to his trade as carpenter and to his interests as a farmer. He looks after his small farm of 16 acres, half mile southeast of French Creek. Mr. Wingrove is a democrat in politics, affiliated with The Modern Woodmen of America, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a teacher in the Sunday School.
On February 6, 1900, he married Mayme Phillips, daughter of George and Estelle (Young) Phillips. They have one son, Lyle, born March 19, 1906, now attending school at French Creek. - History of West Virginia, Old and New and West Virginia Biography, Vol. III.
Thaddeus K Wingrove
b. 09 April 1871, Upshur Co WV
Birth Records Near French Creek WV;
d. 08 August 1942.
Burial French Creek Cemetery, French Creek WV
View Headstone Thaddeus K Wingrove
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Genealogy- John Wingrove Pension- John Wingrove 1850 Census
Marshall P Wingrove Thaddeus P Wingrove Claude Wingrove - Marriage
Marvin V Wingrove -Birth Alma Wingrove- MarriageEND of PAGE
