The following information was extracted 7 June 2002 from microfilm of County Tax
Rolls for
Pontotoc County,
Mississippi for year 1845, p. 34; microfilm located in
Mississippi State Archives,
Jackson Mississippi.. As far as I can tell, this is the first
Wingo entry in this county (formed 1836).
Wingo,
Simpson C paid for 1 white poll, owned 1 clock valued at $20, tax 50cents; believe that the white poll was for males aged 21-50yrs age
NOTE: county tax rolls from 1846 to 1858 were not available on this microfilm;
Oliver Perry
Wingo shows up on the 1859 tax roll as 1 white poll.
I extracted this
Simpson C. Wingo entry as the name surprised me as I had not come across the name in this county before; I descend from
Oliver Perry
Wingo who was born in Spartanburg
South Carolina and died in
Pontotoc Co MS. In 1850
Oliver Perry
Wingo was in
Tishomingo Co MS and by 1860 until his death he resided in
Pontotoc Co at Springville, between Pontotoc and Toccopola; he and wife Martha Brown are buried in Springville Cemetery. One son Thomas
Jefferson Wingo was a physician in Toccopola. Oliver PerryWingo was son of
Ransom Wingo and grandson of John
Wingo of Spartanburg, SC. John
Wingo was born in
Amelia Co Virginia