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| | Stephen Wing of Pike County, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Stephen was a farmer, carpenter, mason, brick layer and he could finish a house from celler to attic, hewing the timbers from the trees of the forest. |
 | | Their move to Illinois was probably precipitated by the death of his father, Joseph Wing, on February 12, 1844. |
 | | Thanks to the documents that remain at the courthouse in Pittsville, Pike County, Illinois, we also know that in June of 1854, Stephen became the legal guardian of Adelia and Byron Wing, the children of his brother, Joseph Smith Wing. |
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