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Joseph Wingate, Jr. (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident and mayor. )

b. 1803-11-07 d. 1871-07-30

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident and mayor. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Wingate, Sr., and Venetia Downing Wingate. Married to Deborah Stone Wingate in Fayette County, Kentucky, on July 26, 1826. Resident of Fayette County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Resident of Lexington, Fayette County, in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Mayor of Lexington from 1863 to 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, City/District 2, p. 202A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 580.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 457A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 257A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Fayette County Marriages, Film 0077724545, p. 465.

George W. Ranck, History of Lexington, Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress (Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke & Co, 1872), p. 322.

Esther Mae Winget Warner, The Wingate-Winget Family in America (Osborn, OH: The Herald Print Shop, 1931), p. 156.

"Joseph Wingate (Unknown-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98808917, accessed August 31, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98808917.

Citation

Wingate, Joseph, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211080 (November 12, 2026).

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