Saturday, February 9, 2019

Horatio and Asa Wingo, club-footed twins.

What? The stories that could be told. From Pike county. Mississippi, 1789-1876: pioneer families and Confederate soldiers, reconstruction and redemption by Luke Ward Conerly.
At the foot of Main Street, near the river, two men from Virginia, Horatio and Asa Wingo, club-footed twins, lived, built a hotel, barroom and tenpin alley. Horatio married Miss Brent and Asa Mrs. Guinea. They were rough men and great fighters, and they were always in it side by side together. Their deformed feet necessitating perfectly round shoes, and their weight thrown on the ankles made it difficult to stand still, and in walking they had to be supported by sticks, good-sized hickory clubs, which they used in their personal encounters.

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