Resources by Charlie Wingard
A Prayer for the Lord’s Day, July 26 (based on Psalm 95)
O LORD, the only protector and stay of all thine, who guidest thy children as the sheep of thy fold, extend thy goodness to us, and so sustain our hearts, which by nature are harder than any flint, that we be not hardened or obstinate through any incredulity against thy holy Word, but we may serve thee in true and living faith, so that in the end we may enter into thy heavenly rest, through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 107-108.
Read MoreIndomitable physical courage, moral strength, and Christian conviction marked the life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Yesterday Lynne and I visited her gravesite at Ruleville in the Mississippi Delta. Mrs. Hamer came to national prominence when she addressed the 1964 Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee. She described the imprisonment and brutal beating she endured during the 1963 summer voter registration drive. Watch a brief historical introduction and then listen to her eight minute speech. The youngest of twenty children, her family were sharecroppers. Her attempt to register to vote in 1962 led to the firing of her and her husband from the plantation where she had worked for eighteen years. Her gravesite is located in the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden. A few hundred yards to the west is the Fannie…
Read MoreA Prayer for the Lord’s Day, July 19 (based on Psalm 92)
MOST POTENT KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, whose glory is incomprehensible, whose majesty is infinite, and whose power is incomparable, maintain thy servants in quietness; and grant that we may be so settled on the certainty of thy promises that, whatsoever thing come upon us, we may abide firm in thy faith, and may live uprightly and without reproach in the midst of thy church, which Jesus Christ thy Son hath bought with his precious blood. AMEN. – Prayers on the Psalms from the Scottish Psalter of 1595 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2010), 106.
Read MorePictures early in marriage and later in life of my great grandfather and great grandmother, George Franklin (1860-1949) and Carrie Lou Moore Wingard (1870-1955). The last two pictures were taken at the Wingard family home at Elmdale in southern Montgomery County, Alabama.
Read MoreA Centerpoint School class roll from 1913. Centerpoint was located in southern Montgomery County, Alabama. It was near Elmdale, the Moore-Wingard farm. Some of the teachers lived with the Wingards. Clinton King was the teacher in 1913. One of his students is my grandfather’s sister, Magnolia Wingard, age 15. Five years later, in 1918, Clinton King and Magnolia Wingard were married. Several of my great uncles and aunts and their kin are listed on the report card. I have posted additional information elsewhere about Centerpoint School.
Read MoreThe Wingards – Elmdale (2)
These pictures were take at an October 2007 workday at Moore-Wingard Cemetery in southern Montgomery County. The cleanup crew from left to right: Duane Norman, son of Murray and Ralph Norman Murray Wingard Norman, daughter of Uncle Murray Wingard Vickey Wingard, wife of Rick Wingard Rick Wingard, son of Dick Wingard, grandson of Uncle Sam Wingard Ralph Norman, husband of Murray Norman Austin Norman (front), son of Duane Norman Richard Wingard, son of Uncle Will Wingard Here’s what the cemetery looked like in June. Things were much improved by the end of our workday. Below are two pictures that show how the cemetery has changed the past 50 years. Here is a picture of George Franklin and Carrie Lou Wingard’s…
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