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“Aunt Jane Wingo” Aunt Jane Wingo, one of our very best and most respected colored citizens died very suddenly at her home In Platte City, Sunday, July 11, 1920. She had gone to her room to prepare to go to church when she was stricken. Aunt Jane Wingo was about 60 years of age. Her mother, who was a slave of the Chinn family, died when she was 3 years old (approximately 1863) and at the age of seven (approximately 1867) Jane was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Larkin, who raised her and with whom she lived until the latter’s death, after which she became as one of the family in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus O. Larkin, a home which she always regarded with deepest love as her home. Aunt Jane was married 3 times, first to a Jennings, by whom she had two children, and second to a Johnson, by whom she had three children. Her third husband was Alex Wingo, a respected colored man, who is left to mourn the loss of a faithful companion. Funeral services were held at the colored Baptist church Tuesday afternoon and burial was In the city cemetery. The funeral was attended by a large crowd of colored folks and a number of white friends. She was a member of the Baptist church and colored Eastern Star. Aunt Jane was one of the best of colored women, honest and energetic, one who knew her place and was content to keep it. Her sudden death came as a shock, and the heart of many a white person was as sympathetically touched by her departure as if it had been one of their best white friends who had gone into the great beyond.Date(s) of Creation
7/16/1920
