OOOVingie E. Roe was born in Oxford, Kansas in 1879. She and her family lived inWichita, Kansas until they moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma, to form a settlement in 1889. There her father became a well known physician. She later moved to Wellston Carney and Fallis, Oklahoma. Vingie did not receive any schooling past her sixth grade year, and learned all her knowledge of literature from books and short stories. She began writing poetry at a young age, which she later sent to the Wichita Eagle, a Kansas newsletter.

OOOThe then president of Oklahoma Agriculture and Mechanical College, A.C. Scott, read one of Vingie’s poems in the Eagle and enjoyed the piece. He shared this with the Kansas Congressman, Victor Murdock, who took a liking to her work as well, so much so, that he became her patron.

OOO“Maid of the Whispering Hills” was Vingie’s first novel and it was picked up by the first publisher she sent it to, Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1912.

OOOVingie fell in love with a young man by the name of Raymond C. Lawton. Raymond was in the navy and they sent many a correspondence to one another. They wed on April 12, year is unknown. The following month the two left for Oregon. There they owned a fruit farm in the Rogue River Valley near Eagle Point. Raymond was an electrical engineer. She later divorced Raymond.