Wellington F. Winingham, one of the most ideal and practical farmers of Lick Mountain Township, is a resident of Choctaw Township, Van Buren County. He was born in Greene County, Arkansas, in 1838, and is a son of Jesse and Jennie A. (Leib) Winingham, the former a native of Tennessee, and the latter born near Springfield, Illinois. They came with their parents to Randolph County, Arkansas, where they married, then settled in Greene County, where they continued to reside till 1851, when they removed to Benton County, and in 1855 returned to Randolph County, where Mrs. Winingham died in 1859. Mr. W. died about 1873, a deacon in the Missionary Baptist Church for forty years; his wife was also a member of that church. Mr. W. was a successful farmer and was Justice of the Peace two years in Greene County. He assisted in removing some of the Indians to the Indian Nation. His father, Rev Sherod Winingham was probably born in Kentucky, but was one of the first settlers of Randolph County, Arkansas, where he died after a successful career in the Missionary Baptist ministry for many years. He reared a large family and was a son of Adam Winingham, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. Grandfather Col. Daniel Leib was born and married in Germany, but settled where Springfield, Illinois, is in a very early day. From there he removed to Randolph County, Arkansas, where he died in 1844. He was a mechanic and a miller and was a Colonel in one of the German wars. He left a very handsome property at Springfield, Illinois, but he lost it through the dishonesty of another man. Mr. Winingham is the second of a family of five sons and four daughters and grew to his majority without the advantage of any schooling. At the breaking out of the late war he espoused the Southern cause and enlisted in Company A, Seventh Arkansas Infantry, known as "Dick Johnson's Guards," and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville (Kentucky), Murfreesboro, Chickamagua, Missionary Ridge, through the campaign to Atlanta and back with Gen. Hood to Tennessee, and fought at Spring Hill and many others, and was discharged at Jacksonport, Arkansas, at the close of the war. He was married in Crittenden County in 1867 to Mary Ayers, a daughter of James and Mary (Henley) Ayers. Mr. Ayers was born and reared in Tennessee but died in Crittenden County, Arkansas, in 1874. Mrs. Ayers died in Tennessee. Mrs. Winingham was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, and is the mother of seven children. After marriage Mr. W. lived in Randolph County for two years, when he removed to Fulton County, and in 1872 came to where he now resides, living in his wagon till he could erect a cabin in the woods. He now has one of the best farms in his township, containing 149 acres with about 75 acres under a fine state of cultivation, He has accumulated all his effects by constant toil and good management. He is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife and three of the children are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, now at Union Hill Church.