Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . \ *. Mrs. Mary Forney Wingard, who will be 90 years nextOctober, sat at her home at 407 North State, Tuesday afternoon,while The News-Gazette photographer took her picture. A residentof Champaign more than 60 years, she has always made her homein the two-story, white house at the corner of State and WashingtonStreets. As another anniversary of Lincolns birth rolls around,she recalls that she heard the famous Gettysburg address of theCivil War President, when she was a girl of 17. having enlisted in the old 120th back mere realistically than most Illino

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Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln . \ *. Mrs. Mary Forney Wingard, who will be 90 years nextOctober, sat at her home at 407 North State, Tuesday afternoon,while The News-Gazette photographer took her picture. A residentof Champaign more than 60 years, she has always made her homein the two-story, white house at the corner of State and WashingtonStreets. As another anniversary of Lincolns birth rolls around,she recalls that she heard the famous Gettysburg address of theCivil War President, when she was a girl of 17. having enlisted in the old 120th back mere realistically than most Illinois Volunteer Infantry, whichwas recruited in this community,and became famous for its Wingard served under such re-nowned officers and pioneer resi-dents of Champaign-Urbana, as thelate Captain Edward S. Bailey,founder of the Champaign Nation-al Bank; Col. Wolfe, for whomCol. Wolfe School is named; andCol. J. W. Langley, ouetime countyjudge of Champaign Three Children, All LivingThe Wingards became parents

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