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• Blacker, John D.   b. 1893  d. 1970
  2-time Indiana State Basketball Champion. Teamed with All-State teammates Homer Stonebraker and Jesse Graves, as well asÊLeland Olin,Êto help tiny Wingate High School win state titles in 1913 and 1914. Forest Crane was the fifth starter in 1913, Lee Sinclair in 1914.ÊBlacker subsequently became a highly successful coach for the "Spartans," who won a national invitational tournament championship for amateur teams in 1920.
  Greenlawn Cemetery, Wingate, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
   
• Graves, Jesse Paul   b. August 21, 1895  d. 1954
  2-time Indiana State Basketball Champion. Teamed with All-State teammate (and subsequent collegiate All-American) to help tiny Wingate High School win state titles in 1913 and 1914.ÊWas also a 2-time selectee to the Indiana High School All-State team during each of Wingate's championship seasons.
  Greenlawn Cemetery, Wingate, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
   
• Wingate, John C.    b. 1851  d. 1924
  Community pillar of Pleasant Run, Indiana. In his honor, the citizens renamed the village "Wingate" in his honor.
  Greenlawn Cemetery, Wingate, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
   
• Wingate, Indiana War Dead Memorial [memorial] 
  The monument was established in honor of all the Wingate, Indiana community US Armed Force veterans who served and died for their country. The foot stone and flagpole were donated to the memorial from the original 1907 Wingate School building. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Greenlawn Cemetery, Wingate, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
   

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