General Notes

According to notes from Ross Bonny, Sr., Joseph was one of the Mormon pioneers who pushed a hand cart all the way from Ohio to Utah. He was given property by Brigham Young in Springville, 60 miles south of Salt Lake City. He was the doctor there. I believe that this is a mistake. Joseph was probably prosperous enough to afford a wagon train whereas Joseph Smith Bohne as a youth traveled with his (widowed?) mother to America and probably pushed a hand cart.

Descendants of REV. JOHN WING (Web Site of Toni Nash)
Generation No. 8


      308. JOSEPH SMITH10 WING (JOSEPH9, GILES8, MATTHEW7, JOSEPH6, MATTHEW5, STEPHEN4, REV. JOHN3, MATTHEW2, GODFRIEDUS1 WYNGE) was born September 18, 1830 in Mecca, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and died November 03, 1906 in Junction, Piute Co., Utah. He married (1) Frances. He married (2) unknown. He married (3) Ellen Larsen. He married (4) Elizabeth Marshall. He married (5) Signa Anderson. He married (6) Amelia Hendricksen. He married (7) REBECCA P. DAVIS June 08, 1848 in Pike Co., Illinois, daughter of ISSAC DAVIS and MARGARET ROBIDOUX. He married (8) Sarah Adelia Wright August 08, 1863. He married (9) Mary Josephine Allen December 17, 1864. He married (10) Sophia Anena Bohne February 17, 1866 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married (11) Frances McGuray (McCurdy?) 1876.

Notes for JOSEPH SMITH WING:
Information rec'd from knewdirk@@pacifer.com (Kathryn Graham). Her information came from "Owl, Vol 23, #3, June 1922, pg. 2193; LDS Family sheet, Hugh W. Law; LDS Ancestral Files, 1990)

(Joseph Smith Wing) (Descendant in 7th generation from Stephen Wing, one of the founders of Sandwich, Mass., in 1637)

Joseph Smith Wing, son of Joseph and Amy (Pettis) Wing (Giles, Matthew, Joseph, Matthew, Stephen) was born Sept. 18, 1830. at Mecca, Trumbull Co., Ohio. In 1903, the following account of his career was given in a letter to the Owl;

"I am a self-made man; got what little schooling I ever had in a log school-house, sitting upon a slab bench and but three months after I was twelve year of age. Six years after I was born my parents removed to Pike County, Ill. Both places were new and I have ever been on the frontier marching westward, until I reached Utah and in the mountains in the mining camps. i was the first discoverer of gold in Mary's Vale, Pinto County, in 1865, and returned to that county again in 1898. I am very busy in the practice of medicine which I began in 1857."

Dr. Wing furnished the Owl with much of the information relative to his grandfather, Giles.

Dr. Wing was first married in Illinois to Rebecca Davis, by whom he had 3 children, Byron, Adelia and Margaret, born in Pike County, Illinois. He later went to Black River Falls, Wisconsin and engaged with his brother, Benjamin, in the lumber and mercantile business. They were burned out and Dr. Wing returned to Illinois. While living in Black River Falls he married Sarah Adelia Wright and they had five children...Elizabeth, May, Joseph, Benjamin, and Amanda.

He remained in Illinois a year or so and then, in 1862 left for Utah with his nephew John William Wing; he was supposed to have taken his daughter Adelia with him. (Toni's notes; In fact he did take his daughter Adelia with him...he took her from her mother's home when her mother was gone). (Toni's notes; Dr. Wing was accompanied by Sarah Adelia Wright on his trek to Utah. He met Sarah Adelia Wright during his stay in Wisconsin. She eventually bore him six children). In Utah he married Mary Josephine Allen and by her had four sons...Charles, Orville, John and George. The youngest of these sons gave the following account in 1922 regarding his father's career;

"His first wife was the mother of two children, Byron and Adelia, born in Pike County, Illinois. When he set out for Utah in 1862 with his nephew John William Wing, he was supposed to have taken his daughter Adelia with him. In Utah he married Mary Josphine Allen and by her had four sons. He afterward married a Frances A. (Frank) McCURDY) by whom there were no children."

In another account of Dr. Joseph Smith Wing, written by a nephew, John W. Wing, before 1916, the following is given;

"Dr. Wing was a successful physician and also a miner. He discovered the famous Flagstaff mines in Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, from which he realized a considerable fortune."

From another account it was reported that Dr. Wing also married a Sophia Anna Bonny (or Bohne) and by her had a son named Hugh. And in an old letter written by Dr. Wing himself, many years before his death, is the following;

" I bought city lots and the best of land in and around Springville, Utah, and built my families, four in number, good new houses, bought them stock and house furnishings amounting to over twenty thousand dollars."

In a Utah newspaper the following account is given of Dr. Wing's death;

"Junction, Piute County, Utah, Nov. 4, 1906: Dr. J. S. Wing died yesterday at Kingston at the age of 86 years. He left a will which was probated yesterday, his heirs being 13 children. R. Allen is named executor of the will. His property is valued from $1500 to $1800. Dr. Wing was a highly respected citizen of Piute County and a great friend of the poor. He had lived in Kingston about eight years. He was a public spirited man, always leading out and assisting in public matters. Funeral services will be held today under the auspices of the Kingston bishopric."

From information available, it appears that the first two of the listed children were born in Illinois, the mother being Rebecca (Davis) Wing; that the next four listed were born in Utah by the wife, Mary Josephine (Allen) Wing; that the next five were born in Wisconsin by the wife Sarah Adelia (Wright) Wing; and that the two last listed were born in Utah as children of Sophia Anna (Bohne) Wing.
(7846-a) Byron b. Aug. 16, 1853, (7846-b) Adelia, (7846-B) Charles b. June 2, 1866, (7846-d) Orvile Allen, b. Feb. 14, 1868, (7846-e) John Ethan Allen b. 1873, d. 1889, (7846-f) George Francis b. April 21, 1875, (7846-g) Elizabeth, (7846-h) May, (7846-i) Joseph, (7846-j) Benjamin, (7846-k) Amanda, (7846-l) Hugh b. March 14, 1873, (7846-m) Signa Sophia


In the earliest census Toni could find, Joseph Smith Wing was 19 years old, a cooper (made barrels) and was born in Ohio. Rebecca Wing was born in Canada and she was 19 years old also. I'm not sure what Census this was.

1860 Census ...Mary Wing is listed in Springville, Utah where she says she kept house. She was 20 years old at the time and there were 5 people in the house. She was born in Iowa. (This was Joseph Smith Wings wife...Mary Josephine Allen.) This census was taken in Utah. (My note: if this is the case, he must have left Illinois before 1862, the date given above.) [Janes's Note: I do not find Joseph Smith Wing in either Utah or Illinois in 1860

1870 Census...Springville Utah. Joseph Smith Wing is listed in a different household. He says he is 39 years old and a physician. and there were 8 in that household. The line immediately following lists Mary J., age 20, from Iowa ( plus Charles age 3, born in Utah, and Arvil, age 2, born in Utah ), and Anena (Bohne, I assume), age 18, from Denmark ( plus Zena, age 2, female, born in Utah).

1870 Census...Little Cottonwood, Utah, Joseph Smith Wing says he is 40 years old and that he is a physician and that there are 4 in that particular household.

Notes for REBECCA P. DAVIS:
Source; Marriage Index for Il, In, Ky, Oh, Tn 1720-1926, CD # 2 (Family Tree Maker)
Mrs. Rebecca P. Wing married Jacob T. Cheek on June 8, 1856 in Pike Co., Il.


On this same web site there is a copy of a letter written to him by his mother chastising him for not following the ( Baptist? ) faith.




    Children of JOSEPH WING and unknown are:
     316  i.        Miland Smith11 (Wing).
     317  ii.       Homer Smith (Wing).
      Child of JOSEPH WING and Amelia Hendricksen is:
+    318  i.        Henry11 Wing, born May 22, 1873 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died December 12, 1933 in San Bernardino, California.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and REBECCA DAVIS are:
+    319  i.        BYRON11 WING, born August 16, 1853 in Milton, Pike Co., Illinois; died February 05, 1942 in Illinois.
+    320  ii.       Adelia Wing, born June 20, 1850 in Detroit, Pike Co., Illinois; died July 31, 1909 in Fairview, San Pete, Utah.
     321  iii.      Margaret Wing, born 1856.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and Sarah Wright are:
+    322  i.        Elizabeth Jane11 Wing, born November 27, 1858 in Black River Falls, Jackson, Wisconsin; died Abt. 1890.
+    323  ii.       Mary Arminta Wing, born May 26, 1862 in Sweet Water, American Plains, Wyoming.
+    324  iii.      Joseph Smith Wing Jr., born November 02, 1864 in Springville, Utah, Utah.
+    325  iv.       Sarah Adelia Wing, born February 04, 1867.
+    326  v.        Benjamin Franklin Wing, born November 20, 1869.
+    327  vi.       Amy Amanda Wing, born July 20, 1872.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and Mary Allen are:
     328  i.        Charles11 Wing, born June 02, 1866. He married Angelina Biggs.
+    329  ii.       Orville Allen Wing, born February 15, 1868 in Fairview, San Pete, Utah; died December 10, 1931 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.
     330  iii.      John Ethan Allen Wing, born August 15, 1873 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died June 12, 1889 in Utah.
     331  iv.       George Francis Wing, born April 21, 1875 in Fairview, San Pete, Utah.
      Children of JOSEPH WING and Sophia Bohne are:
+    332  i.        Signa Sophia11 Wing, born June 05, 1867 in Spring City, San Pete, Utah; died May 25, 1940 in Springville, Utah, Utah.
+    333  ii.       Frederick William Wing, born June 25, 1870 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died October 31, 1940 in Provo, Utah.
+    334  iii.      Hugh Bohne Wing, born March 15, 1873 in Springville, Utah, Utah; died April 12, 1947 in Provo, Utah.

From Research in Black River Falls, Wisconsin and in Pittsfield, IL and conversation with Toni Nash:

In 1852, or thereabouts, Joseph left to go to Wisconsin for a short period but remained gone for about two years. During this period, according to his own admission in letters written to Rebecca Davis and subsequently added to his divorce records, he married Frances E. Jarrad in Iowa. He blames Rebecca for his behavior, saying that he had never, despite his fervent pleadings, abandoned her family. In her divorce petition, Rebecca alludes to another woman, Sarah Jones, saying he had committed adultery with her. Family rumor had it that he had fathered other children with at least one of these women. Furthermore, the absence of a marriage record for Joseph and Sarah Adelia Wright, while not universal at that time, and while there is a records for Joseph's nephew and Sarah Adelia's sister, seems to lend some credence to the rumor that Joseph and Adelia were not legally married, though Joseph had led Sarah Adelia to believe that they were. Sarah Adelia may have begun to have her doubts about Joseph when he kidnapped his daughter Adelia and left for Utah. Sarah may have had enough of Joseph by 1868 and moved out. She later lived with her children in Idaho. By the time Joseph died, few family members were speaking to him and he had parted ways with the Mormons because he was forced to chose one wife. Many of his wives married other men after the law was changed.

[22 June 2000: Letter sent to Green County, Wisconsin requesting copy of marriage record of JOSEPH SMITH, On Nov 19, 1855. Based on preliminary results of search of Archives in Madison, Wisconsin.]