Asbury Pinkston Lingo was a well-know citizen of Americus, Ga, serving as Chief of Police. He was grandson of Sarah Pinkston and Patrick Lingo, son of Mary Ann Smith and Pinkston Lingo, which makes him the uncle of John Asbury Lingo. There was another Asbury Pinkston Lingo 1880-1972, son of Ida Gadden and William B. …
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John Asbury Lingo was born 14 May 1865, in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia A small notice on page 4 of the Daily Advocate, Victoria, Texas, Wed Feb 2, 1898: WANTED — Everybody to know that J. A. Lingo, at Victoria Bicycle Shop, does all kinds of repairing. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Opposite Times office. The …
In one of those “head-scratching” bits of information, an article that ran 5 Jun 1912 in the Victoria, Texas, Daily Advocate reported that “James Lingo, the 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lingo, was struck by an automobile Monday morning, and quite painfully, though not seriously, Injured.” It’s unclear if the article has …
Several related families moved from Tennessee to Missouri in 1829, creating a thriving community, including a town of Lingo. A few excerpts of information about this community are included below. Two of the Lingos that moved to Missouri were Mary Lingo, who married Joseph Turner, and Samuel Sanders Lingo, children of James McEwen Lingo 1780–1859, …
William Bernard Lingo was a prominent physician in Atlanta Georgia from 1908 until he moved to Florida around 1925. He and his wife Maggie May Romoser 1874–1939 had no biological children and no evidence of other close Lingo kin in Georgia. He was from a long line, at least six generations, of Lingos living in …
