MORRELL WING Phillips, Feb. 25-Morrell Wing died at his home in Phillips, Monday evening at 9 o'clock. He had been in failing health for the past three years and his death was caused from aseptic poisoning. Mr. Wing was born in Phillips, July 18, 1854, the son of Jesse Wing and Sarah J. Singles Wing of Delaware. He was married July 5, 1876 to Miss Elvira Wing and five children have been born to them Mrs. Rose Hunton, of Rangeley; Artemas of Flushing, L. I. New York; Ashley J., of Norridgewock; Mrs. Norman Calden and Chester Wing of Phillips, the latter being in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Wing have always lived on the farm where Mr. Wing died, located on what is known as Wing flat. Mr. Wing has been a respected citizen and deacon of the Reed's Mill Free Baptist church for many years. Mr. Wing has been vice president of the Wing Association of Phillips, Maine, of which Bion Wing has been the president. MRS. SARAH GIFFORD TINGUE Sarah Gifford (Mrs. Chas. E.) Tingue, died early in the year of 1924, after an illness of six years. We are sorry not to be able at this time to furnish her line of Wing descent, since she was much interested in the Wing Family and made Family Marriages Mrs. Alice W. Belmont, widow of August Belmont, Jr., and John D. Wing, 2nd, were married in the chantry of St. Thomas Church on Jan. 17, and sailed the following day on the Mauretania, to spend part of the winter in Europe. Mrs. Wing is a daughter of Albert V. DeGoucouria and a sister of Mrs. Benjamin Curtis Allen, Colorado Springs, Col. Her first husband, who died in 1919, was a son of the late August Belmont. Mr. Wing is a broker; was graduated from Princeton in 1911 and served in France during the world war. And so they lived and loved and died, And knew not how in circles wide And how the slender strands they wove, Would strengthen with the years, Fastening their deathless cords of love Wherever life appears. Julia K. Wing, N. Bloomfield, Ohio THE OWL A Genealogical Quarterly Magazine Founded in 1899, by George W. Wing, Kewaunee, Wis., and edited by him until his death in 1924. PUBLISHED BY THE WING FAMILY OF AMERICA, Incorporated. Price $1.00 a Year; Single Numbers, 25 cents Entered at the post-office at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, as second class matter. The Owl is the official journal of the Wing Family of America, Incorporated, and solicits information concerning family events. Address all correspondence concerning it to Mary Gertrude Wing, Wareham, Mass. A Voice From Out the Past "I can but look upon it as a great misfortune that all the particular history of the various villages and neighborhoods which compose the Old Colony must be passed by and forgotten, because the people who compose those villages and neighborhoods soar above the affairs which happen at home, in search of some extraordinary event that may take place in Texas or Florida. How many of us sigh, and have to sigh in vain, to find out the particulars of some event which happened but sixty years ago. Our fathers who lived then are mostly gone, and we neglected too long to question them; the few who still live are infirm and forgetful. The great battles of the Revolution are particularly described, but of the smaller skirmishes which happened along shore, and are interesting to families and towns, no pen has left a single trace-no father taught his listening son as did the heroes of Fingal's war, or as do the Indians of the far west -for since the days of printing, all tradition has passed away, and every event that is not worth printing must be forgotten and lost forever. These are evils worthy the attention of the philanthropist. What can be done to leave the next NUMBER 2 WING FAMILY OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED Secretary, MRS. CAROLINE E. WING PARKER, Treasurer, ALVIN P. WING, East Sandwich, Mass. Asahel R. Wing, Fort Edward N. Y. Dr. Laura Hawkins, Washington, D. C. Wilson D. Wing, Bangor, Me. generation better informed of what is now passing, than we are of the generation before us? I can thnk of no better remedy than that of a family newspaper introduced into as many families as possible." Thus wrote Silvanus Bourne of Wareham, Mass., in 1838, as an introduction to a History of Wareham, which he was then compiling. What a kindred spirit our late president, "Col. George", would have found in him! His was the same idea in preparing the History of the Wing Family and in editing The Owl,to preserve for future generations a record of family events-those seemingly unimportant events of everyday life, which, nevertheless, serve to throw a sidelight upon the character and likeness of Wings concerned in them. Our "family newspaper", The Owl, is in search of just such items, even from Texas and from Florida-it does not expect the extraordinary-and from all the intervening states where Wings have made their homes. And this, our "family newspaper", seeks an entrance into the homes of "as many families as possible," that it may not only disseminate the information gathered, but that it may have the means to publish all the material which is even now being sent into its office. The Roses of Cape Cod From the Sept., 1905 Owl O, pink are the roses that grow by the O'er hillock and hollow of Old Cape They seem larger and deeper, And O, so much sweeter, The Old Fort House No name or place is more familiar to Wing reunionists than the Old Fort House at Spring Hill, Sandwich, home of our treasurer, Alvin P. Wing, and his daughter, Miss Cora M. Wing. It has been the home of Wings in an unbroken line from the very beginning—for eight Those flowers that bloom where my generations. Where is there a record-like unto it? Here is its story, taken from the pages of The Owl, and from other records. "It is generally believed that immediately following the marriage of Stephen and Osheah Dillingham in 1646 they located in the 'Old Fort House' near Spring Hill. In the days of the first settlements upon the Cape, the pioneers had at various points built substantial stone and brick enclosures as defenses from possible Indian forays. They soon came to know the Cape Indians were inclined to be peaceable and friendly and that these block houses or forts were unnecessary. It seems probable that the town of Sandwich sold or assigned the old fort and its surrounding acres to Stephen. Anyway, he seems to have lived there from the very first." After the decease of his first wife he married Sarah Briggs. "Its walls, like those of the majority of the old Cape houses, are shingled. The fort itself now constitutes the parlor, a room 15 x 18 feet in dimension. Deep embrasures for the windows show the thickness of the stone walls encased, and old oaken rafters overhead indicate the size of the original building. A great fireplace almost occupies one end of the room, leading to an immense chimney around which the several parts of the building seem to have been gathered. A quaint, narrow stairway leads to the second floor, and the entire house impresses one with its self-evident antiquity. The attic of the 'Old Fort House' is one of the most interesting places for all Wings in America. Carefully preserved by the successive generations of the family who have lived here, are accumulations of household furniture and utensils dating back probably to the |