Photograph of Charles and Harriet Wing and Friends at 621 Morning Street

This photograph of a group of friends and family was taken in the living room of the Wing household at 621 Morning Street in 1941. In the back row are Charles Wing, Billie Converse and Harriet Putman Wing. Seated on the couch are Ocea Bailey Putman, Mary Holady (likely), Clara Converse, Bob Holaday and his daughter Suzanne Holaday on his lap.

Charles and Harriet Putman Wing resided at 621 Morning Street at the time of this photograph, and later moved to Smoky Row Road. Harriet graduated from Worthington High School in 1914 and was an Army Nurse during World War I. While posted at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, she met Charles Wing, who also served in the first world war. He was severely wounded on July 15, 1918, in the Battle of Aisne, Champagne-Marne, as a private in the American Expeditionary Force. He spent much of the next few years in and out of hospitals. According to research by Dr. Stephanie Smith, he departed Europe on December 24, 1918, and was shipped back to the United States on the S.S. Powhatan. Family oral history reports that Harriet was the nurse who held Charles' leg when it was amputated. He was discharged from Camp Sherman on August 14, 1919.

Also pictured are Clara Converse and her daughter Alice "Billie" Converse. Following the death of Clara's husband Alex in 1936, Clara and her children Stanley and Billie moved to 40 E. South Street.

Ocea Putman is Harriet Wing's sister-in-law, as she was married to Harriet's brother Roy. The couple lived on Linworth Road.

The Holadays lived at 617 Morning Street at the time of this photograph.