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Vol. 4, No. 3 - November, 1987

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Just a reminder! If you have not already submitted your family group sheets to Linda Wright or me, please do so in the next few weeks. We have been receiving lots of material, and the response has been very encouraging. The computer is hard at work compiling the information.

If you have any questions, feel free to write either Linda or myself and we will try to get back with you soon. DO NOT miss this opportunity to have your family names placed in a book which is the first known attempt to compile such a register since 1903.

From Downeast Ancestry, Vol. 10 #5, Feb. '87 Oxford County Data– submitted by John Alley Robbins, Jr

The Three Earliest Settlers of Hiram, Maine

This information is the contribution of Hubert W. Clemons.

The first settler of Hiram, ME was Lt. Benjamin Ingalls (B257 – ais) who was born 12 August 1728, Andover, MA and died at Hiram, 24 March 1815. He married Mary White of Andover, MA who died in Hiram in 1815. They came to Hiram 5 August 1774 and settled on the west bank of the Saco River, above Hiram Falls. They are buried in Baldwin, ME. Children:

William Ingalls born 31 August 1774, Fryeburg, ME; died 9 April 1832, Baldwin, ME

David White Ingalls born 20 Nov. 1776, Standish, ME; died 1 Oct. 1835, Baldwin, ME

Mary Ingalls born 25 Nov. 1779, Hiram, ME; died 20 Oct. 1850, Baldwin, ME; married Moses Parker of Baldwin

Jane Ingalls born 2 June 1781, Hiram, ME; died 28 Mar. 1847, Hiram; married 1816, Capt. Charles Lee Wadsworth

Dolly Ingalls born 3 Aug. 1784, Hiram, ME; died 5 Sep. 1836, Baldwin, ME; married 1805, Thomas Rowe

Loammi Ingalls born 22 May 1786, Baldwin, ME

Ruth Ingalls born 2 Feb. 1789, Baldwin, ME; married Epoch Jewell

Note: Mary Ingalls was the first white child born in the town of Hiram, ME.

The second settler of Hiram was Daniel Foster born 7 Jan. 1726, Andover, MA and died Spring of 1782 at Hiram. He was the first settler to die in the town of Hiram. He married Anne Ingalls of Andover, MA, sister of Lt. Benjamin, and they came to Hiram in the Autumn of 1774. They settled "Foster's Hill" on the west side of the Saco River. He is buried in Hiram. His wife returned to Andover, MA after his death. They had no children.

The third settler of Hiram was John Watson born 1750, Kennebunk, and died 19 July 1827, Hiram. He married Lucy Bickford of Kennebunk who died 26 June 1829 Hiram. They arrived in June, 1777 and settled Intervale Farm on the east bank of of the Saco River. They are buried in Hiram. Children:

Thomas B. Watson born 6 September 1778, Kennebunk, ME; died 6 May 1836, Hiram, ME; married (2) Mary B. Whitten

John Watson Jr. born 7 February 1780 at Hiram, ME; died 21 November 1863, Hiram; married Abigail Foss

Mary A. Watson born 14 April 1787, Hiram, ME; died 31 March 1857, Hiram

Note: John Watson Jr., son of John and Lucy (Bickford) Watson, was the first white male child born in the town of Hiram, ME. [Editor's note: We would be happy to have more articles on the earliest settlers of ME communities.]

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Pioneer teacher honored

The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine - Monday, January 12, 1987

By Andrew McClure Times Record Staff Reporter

TOPSHAM - A Mt. Ararat teacher who pioneered in requiring girls to take industrial arts classes has been named Maine's Industrial Arts Teacher of the Year.

Boys and girls required to take Robert Ingalls' life skills class do a lot more than build lamps as Christmas gifts. But they did that, too.

Ingalls is chairman of Mt. Ararat's industrial arts department and was chosen last month from a field of 16 by the International Technology Education Association for the honor.

The 54-year-old industrial arts teacher came to Topsham in 1972 from New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. By the late 1970's he had designed "project discovery," a required class for seventh and eighth graders that teaches basic life skills.

In addition to learning about hand and power tools, welding and mechanical drawing, the students are required to take classes in cooking, sewing, child care and a first aid.

In one part of the class, students open a company that mass-produces lamps. The students name and sell stock in the company, design a lamp and then set up production.

The lamp unit of the discovery class teaches the student about establishing a company and about woodworking, metal work, wiring and the satisfaction of producing a product that works.

When the lamp lights up, "that is the highlight of their career," Ingalls said.

Jerry Sullivan, a member of the industrial arts department, worked with Ingalls to implement the discovery program in the 1970s. The classes were unique to the area because they required both girls and boys to take industrial arts and home economics, he said.

"One of the goals was to do everything heterogeneous," Ingalls said. It is good for boys to see that girls can work with tools in shop and it is good for girls to see boys can cook and sew, he said.

ROBERT INGALLS (photo omitted) "What we are trying to do is widen the horizons," Ingalls said, spreading his hands wide above his smiling face.

The program is designed to give students basic life skills and to introduce them to a variety of occupations. Ingalls hopes to begin phasing in higher technology like computer aided designing, robotics and lasers into the program.

"We should have been into fiber optics five years ago," he said.

Because the class is required, Ingalls must teach the college bound student interested in science as well as the student interested in automotive mechanics.

"The strength of the program is its variety, Ingalls said.

He considers the required discovery course a success because, despite shrinking interest in industrial arts in other school systems, Mt. Ararat's classes are so popular, the faculty must regularly turn away students from upper level classes.

Ingalls agreed that the popularity of the course he designed is a measure of success, but he prefers to look at the students who have gone on from the program.

Ingalls lists as a success a student with learning problems who thrived in a woodworking class.

"You put a piece of wood in his hand and he was a genius," Ingalls said.

Another success he lists is Kathy Bourque, who took mechanical drawing at Mt. Ararat and is now studying engineering at the University of Maine.

Bourque, a junior in the civil engineering program and a member of Mt. Ararat's class of 1984, said she would never have taken the discovery class if it had not been required.

Bourque remembers Ingalls more as a friend than as a teacher. She said many of her high school teachers demanded respect, but with Ingalls, “you gave it to him as a friend."

Bourque says she may not remember how to diagram a sentence, but she could still wire a lamp if she had to.

"It sticks with you," she said.

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May 29, 1977 St. Paul’s Sunday Pioneer Press Wisconsin

Mrs. Eunice Davidson of La Crosse, above, looks at family photos (e-editor: omitted) of her grandparents, James and Mattie Ingalls, whose memories live in the Little House books of Laura Ingalls Wilder. At top right, Martha E. "Mattie" Ingalls, first cousin of Laura Ingalls Wilder, is shown in a photo taken three years before she married. At bottom, Lansford James Ingalls, shown in his Civil War uniform, was the Uncle James in the Little House books. He once farmed in the Rock Elm, Wis., area.

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By RICHARD BOUDREAU

Correspondent

LA CROSSE, Wis.-Because of the popularity of the "Little House on the Prairie" television series, the famous Ingalls family usually is associated with Walnut Grove, Minn.

Lesser known is the fact that young Laura spent her childhood on a farm near Pepin, Wis.

EVENTUALLY, most of the older generation of the Ingalls clan abandoned the home state for the West. But one, James, remained on his farm in Pierce County.

And when the last surviving member of James' extensive family, Mrs. Martha E. "Mattie" Baker died in La Crosse on Feb. 28 of this year, few knew that she was first cousin of the famous author, Laura Ingalls Wilder.

All of this is documented in an extensive family tree owned by Mrs. Baker's daughter, Eunice Davison of La Crosse. The genealogy was authenticated by the directors of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum in Mansfield, Mo., where Mrs. Wilder lived the latter half of her long life.

MRS. DAVISON said her mother was born in 1887 in the village of Rock Elm (15 miles east of Ellsworth), just a few miles north of where Laura Ingalls had been born 20 years earlier. But by that time, Laura's family had moved on to Dakota, and the Big Woods had shrunk considerably.

Mattie was the 10th and last child of Sarah and Lansford James Ingalls. Her father also came from a family of 10. He was named Lansford after his father, who was born in New York state in 1812 and who appears in the Little House books as "Grandpa."

When the eider Lansford reached manhood, he married Laura Colby. Their first child, Peter, was born in 1833; their second child lived only a few days; and their third child was Charles, the "Pa" of the books.

JUST BEFORE the family moved west in 1842, a sixth child, Lansford James (known as James) was born. They settled first in Illinois where a daughter, Laura Ladocia, the Aunt Docia of the books, was born.

In 1849 they moved on to Wisconsin, settling on a farm along the Oconomowoc River in Jefferson County. There George and Ruby were born. There, too, Polly Ingalls married Henry Quiner, and a year later Charles Ingalls married Henry's sister, Caroline.

During the Civil War the Ingalls clan moved on to western Wisconsin where their various claims spread through the Big Woods of North Pepin. Mary Ingalls, Laura's older sister was born there in January 1865. the same month James and his younger brother, Hiram, ran off to St. Paul to enlist in the First Regiment of Heavy Artillery in the Minnesota Volunteers.

They were stationed in Tennessee and probably took part in the closing skirmishes of the Civil War. Mrs. Davison's brother, Richard Baker, La Crosse, still has some minie balls his grandfather picked up on the battlefield at Chattanooga.

MRS. DAVISON has his discharge paper and a photo of the young Civil War veteran. He was mustered out in Nashville on September 27, 1865, and described at the time as 5 feet 11 inches tall, with a fair complexion and blue eyes.

A year after his discharge James want back to Jefferson County and married Sarah Dickinson, the Aunt Libby of the books. They took up farming near Elm Rock just north of the other Ingalls families.

In "Little House in the Big Woods," the first of the Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder recalls the years there from 1867 to 1873. Uncle Henry and Aunt Polly are mentioned in the first chapter. In a later part of the book, Aunt Eliza and Uncle Peter and their family come over from the Zumbro River area to spend Christmas with the Ingalls.

OVER THE YEARS the family scattered, and James was the only one who stayed in the area. When he retired from farming, he moved into Rock Elm and lived on his Army pension.

"One time when he was about 75," Mrs. Davison recalled, "Ma was so worried about him because he was out running his trap line alone and he was much later than usual. We were just about ready to go look for him when he showed up, heading up the hill hauling a 27 pound raccoon he had caught."

Two years ago, Mrs. Davison said, she was called long distance for information about her grandfather which would be included in a history of the Ingalls family. The book, "Laura: the Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder," by Donald Zochert, was published last year. It devotes several pages to the activities of the Ingalls aunts and uncles.

MRS. DAVISON said that her mother went to River Falls Normal School and began teaching in Rock Elm when she was 17. Later she went back to school, got a certificate, and took a teaching job in La Moure County, N.D. She married Ernest Baker of Plum City, an engineer on the threshing circuit of steam-run harvesters, in 1914.

Eunice was born in North Dakota and Richard in Rock Elm, "behind the blacksmith shop," he noted with a smile. Another son, Lansford Ernest, better known by his nickname, "Mac," was killed during World War II. In 1923 the family moved to Onalaska, and two years later, to La Crosse. The elder Baker died in 1954.

In 1962, when Pepin decided to dedicate a park to Mrs. Wilder, "They wrote to my mother and got a lot of information from her," Davison said. The dedication turned out to be a highlight for Mrs. Baker, who was the closest family member present.

MRS. WILDER died in 1957 at the age of 90. A replica of the Little House in the Big Woods is nearing completion on the site of the farm near Pepin. But with the death of, Mrs. Baker, there is no member of the family left in the area who intimately knew some of the real-life people who used to come together under the roof of the original cabin.

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Excerpt from Who's Who in Arizona compiled and published by Jo Conners, 1913, VII. Courtesy of Ruth Christiansen.

FRANK S. INGALLS, Surveyor General, was born in Maine in 1831. His father, B. F. Ingalls, was a descendant of Edmund Ingalls, landed in Massachusetts in 1629 a member of Captain Endicott’s Company, and who was during the severe Puritanic reign fined two shillings for carrying an armload of wood on Sunday. Captain Ingalls' mother, formerly Miss Sophronia Thomas, was also a descendant of Puritan stock. Captain Ingalls received the benefit of the common schools, after which he entered the University of California. He was a classmate of John Hays Hammond, James  Budd (afterward Governor of California) and other equally prominent men. He married before completing his course at the University. His wife was Madora Spaulding, daughter of N(?) Spaulding, a prominent Californian. Her father was several times Mayor of Oakland, Cal.; was U. S. Sub-Treasurer at San Francisco, and one of the best known men in California. He was a 33d degree Mason and prominent in other organizations. Captain Ingalls is serving his third term as Surveyor General, which will expire in 1916. He has held practically all the political offices in the County of Yuma, as well as being Mayor of the city of that name, and served as a member of the Territorial Legislature. He came to Arizona as a young man, in 1882, and has been actively identified with advancement and upbuilding of the Territory since that time. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Territory when he first came to Arizona, and has since been connected with its official life. There have been born to Captain and Mrs. Ingalls six children, three of whom are living: Walter, draughtsman in the Surveyor General's Office; Charles, an invalid; and Addie, Librarian Carnegie Public Library of Phoenix.

From Arizona Sentinel - FRANK S. INGALS -

The fourth superintendent of the Arizona Territorial Prison was Frank Ingalls. He was b in Maine in 1851 and came to Arizona as the surveyor General of the Territory in 1882. A former riverman, Captain Ingalls served two terms as Prison Superintendent, June 12, 1883 to July 16, 1886 and April 7, 1890 to May 3, 1891. His wife, Medora, was a respected citizen of Yuma as well as a friend to the convicts. Ingalls also established an experimental farm at what is known today as Ingalls Lagoon. Captain Frank S. Ingalls died in Arizona on January 19, 1927. (see over)

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Re: Yuma Prison and MEDORA Ingalls

Picture, if you can, a blazing forenoon in July. All was quiet. Guards patrolled the catwalks with the laxity of men who have things under control. Prisoners went about their routine duties and assignments, apparently as usual, but furtive looks and whispered asides revealed the tensions of a small group of cell mates, sprinkling down the grounds in the exercise yard, or hull pen as it was called, to get some relief from the burning heat. Two yard guards, casually watchful, looked on from the meager shade near the south wall.

A lifer, Chico Viscaya by name, worked his way leisurely to one of the guards, then struck swiftly. Metal flashed in the sun, and the guard fell, a steel spike buried deep in his right breast. Another felon grabbed the slain guard's rifle. and fired point blank at the second guard inside the bull pen, killing him too. With the two guards' rifles and pistols, the prisoners then stormed the big gates. concentrating their fire toward the main guard tower. A guard there fell.

There was now a bedlam of sound. Sensing escape. the prisoners screamed and yelled with hysterical madness. At gun point, they forced the sentry to open the gates. As the escapees poured through, the steam whistle blew with frantic urgency. Jail break! Then the Gatling gun on the high tower began to spit out its deadly fusillade. Men fell. But a volley from the prisoners silenced the Gatling. An officer raced up the steps to replace the dead gunner, but was cut down before he reached the tower platform. The prisoners outside the gates were a frenzied mob. Escape now seemed certain. But suddenly the Gatling was spitting again, driving the prisoners back inside to escape the deadly fire.

"My God, it's Mrs. Ingalls!" a prisoner yelled.

As indeed it was. Medora Ingalls was the comely wife of the prison superintendent. In her late twenties, she was the mother of three children. How she ever got up on that tower to help operate the Gatling is still a mystery. None of the old timers in Yuma recall the details--or how she learned to man the gun. But man it she did.

For a moment the prisoners milled in desperate confusion. For even among these hardened felons, chivalry toward womanhood still prevailed. Besides they liked and respected Dora Ingalls. In many ways she'd made their harsh lives somewhat easier to bear. With food and tid-bits from her own kitchen; letters written for the illiterate; encouragement and hope. Things like that. In the face of these kindnesses, the grim purpose of the prisoners wavered for a moment.

Then a convict, less chivalrous perhaps than the rest, yelled out: "Shoot her, goddam it! Don't stand there like fools."

This brought the men back to their own desperate plight, their grim purpose. Sentiment and chivalry vanished. Pistol and rifle balls spattered the guard tower, but by some miracle Dora Ingalls went unscathed. Rat-tat-tat-tat-the Gatling poured its fire outside the gates, pinning down the escapees against the wall. The steam whistle kept up its shrill message of urgency.

By this time, the officers and other guards had organized themselves. Ten minutes after Dora Ingalls had taken the dead gunner's place on the guard tower, the jail break was smashed and things once more under control.

In later years, it was said, Dora Ingalls shrank from the attendant publicity, minimizing her part in the event, stating that her fire was directed only outside the gates, never toward the prisoners, believing, she said, that the men would not make a second attempt through the sally port against withering fire of the Gatling. Whatever her intention, it worked.

"The Hell Hole" by William & Milarde Brent

The Yuma Prison Story

Arizona Territorial Prison

18th Large Printing, Copyright 1962

Captain Frank S. Ingalls

Served two terms as Supt Appointed in 1883 and second beginning in 1891

Two Children mentioned

Walter Ingalls, later a Mayor In Yuma

Addie Kline, 38 years, Chief Librarian, Carnegie Library

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Quilters conclude class with display of quilts (photo omitted)

Della Kramlich (left) admires the sampler quilt made by her student, Margie Lindbo of Belfield.

Della (Hanson) Kramlich is a descendant of Edmund (1), Henry (2), Henry (3), Henry (4), Isaac (5), Isaac (6), Isaac (7), Adniram Judson (8), Judson A. (9), Hattie Ingalls Murray (10), Virginia Murray (11) Hanson, (Della (12).

She is interested in corresponding with anyone of the Isaac (7) B1801 line.

By LINDA SAILER Press Family Editor

The quilting class held a "show and tell" of their sampler quilts at the conclusion of the 14-week series offered through the Adult Education Program. '

The class of 12 students invited the '86 quilting crass of 15 alumni to bring in their quilts for the "show and tell." The home economic rooms at the Dickinson High School were filled with quilts made during class taught by Delta Kramlich.

Kramlich said it was fun to see all the quilts. Even though the patterns were similar, no two quilts were alike.

The class consisted of some students who had quilted before, and others who have never tried. Besides Dickinson, they came from Amidon, New England, Fryburg and Halliday. The only requirement, said one beginner, was knowing how to sew a straight seam.

Each week, Kramlich taught them how to piece together another quilt block. The 20 blocks were then stitched together, and will (sic) quilted at home.

After making the sampler quilt, Kramlich said they know the basics of, quilting. Now, they can take a basic pattern or draft their own patterns, follow the instructions, and put a quilt together. Emphasis was placed on accuracy so that the quilt blocks fit together.

"It was a good class, and it was exciting to see the results," she said. "It's so much easier to be shown than learning from a book. During the first class, their eyes were so wide. 'Can I make something like that!' they'd ask."

By the end of the first week, they had made one simple block and decided it wasn't so hard. As an added advantage, the students became good friends. To complete the project, the students may either use a frame or a hoop. The old-time quilters use a frame, but the hoop seems to be more popular. "We've had good success with hoops," she added.

Kramlich learned to quilt in the same class several years ago. She's made several quilts, and has taught the Adult Continuing Education class for the last two years. Depending on enrollment, she would be willing to teach quilting next year.

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From the collection of Linda Ingalls – impressions of trademarks taken from various bottles – (photos omitted)

M.A. INGALLS MAIN ST. LITTLE FALLS, NY (1/2 pt. whiskey)

CLOVERLEAF FARM H.C. INGALLS HARWICK SEMINARY, NY (1 qt. milk bottle)

INGALL’S BRO'S PORTLAND, ME. (soda water)

C0MMEMORATING INGLES 100th store opening NOVEMBER 1935 (coke bottle)

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INGALLS AUTHORS

America's War for Humanity Related in Story & Picture Embracing a Complete History of Cuba's Struggle for Liberty & the Heroism of America's Soldiers & Sailors by John James Ingalls (B3357)

The Valley Road by Fay Ingalls (B4680)

Contemporary Authors:

Daniel Henry Holms Ingalls, son of Fay Vol 17-20

David Sinton Ingalls Vol 117

Jeremy Ingalls Vol 4R

Robert Paul Ingalls Vol 110

submitted by Joyce Lashnit/Linda Wright.

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Corrections to July, 1997 Inquirer:

Page 180 - Jim and Polly Ingalls' address should read CT not VT.

Page 181 - 6 para - David Ingalls, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Richardson (not Elizabeth McKeen)

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Submitted by Mrs. Milo C. Roby (Creta) re HARLAM INGALLS, her grandfather. From her letters, she says, "I can go back to Samuel Ingalls B1576 who had a son Aaron Franklin. Aaron had a son Franklin Aaron (b about 1857) and who is buried in a local cemetery here (Carthage, South Dakota) He had a son, Harlan Marine who had a daughter Mable Lucinda Ingalls who in turn was my mother."

Harlan and LaVilla homesteaded just down the road, in fact ewe own the land now. Homestead certificate dated 15 Apr 1890 and signed by Benjamin Harrison."

Taken from the Fedora Messenger, SD -- HARLFY INGALLS -

Who came to youth Dakota in the days of Auld Lang Syne,

And took a claim in Miner county quite near the railroad line?

Who twisted hay for fuel when coal could not be got,

And through the early trying times, who stayed right on the spot.

And when that awful blizzard came and his shack racked to and fro

Who clinched his hand and stamped his feet, and swore he'd never go?

Who later on some wealth acquired, and as he older grew

Just let the youngsters do the work, the old folks used to do?

Who now resides in our town and takes his life mighty easy

Although to tell the naked truth, He is a trifle "wheezy",

Who's always ready to assist a neighbor who's in sorrow, and

lend you anything he has but seldom will he borrow?

Who is he? Why of course you know, his name we needn't tell;

We all know HARLEY INGALLS, and we know him mighty well.

--I believe this was written between 1920-24 by the editor --

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OBITUARY

Lyle W. Ingalls

A funeral service for Lyle W. Ingalls, 70, of Fredericksburg, who died Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Richmond, will be held Monday, Jan. 12, at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Father Dominic Irace will officiate. Burial with military honors will follow at Quantico National Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Albert Rodgers, Herman Bauer, Winston T: Williams, Orville Teter, William Eaton, Preston Jewell and Bucky Clark.

A prayer service, will be held at 8 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 11, at Wheeler & Thompson Funeral Home in Fredericksburg.

Mr. Ingalls, a retired civil service employee, was a native of New York. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was also a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, a leader of Boy Scout Troop no. 165 at the church, and a member of VFW Post. 3103 in Fredericksburg.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ann M. Ingalls of Fredericksburg; one son, Rodney F. Ingalls of Frederick. Md.; one brother, William Ingalls of Wellsville, N.Y.; one sister; Mrs. Ruth Ingalls Hyde of Allentown, N.Y.; and two grandchildren.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy be contributions to St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1009 Stafford Ave., Fredericksburg, 22401 or to Boy Scout Troop no. 165, c/o Saint Mary's Catholic Church.

Lyle Ingalls, led city Boy Scout Troup

Lyle W. Ingalls, 70, of Fredericksburg died Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Richmond.

Mr. Ingalls was a retired civil service employee. He served with the Army's 1st Division during World War II. A member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, he was leader of Boy Scout Troup No. 165 at the church.

Mr. Ingalls is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ann M. Ingalls; a son, Rodney Francis Ingalls of Frederick, Md.; a brother, William Ingalls of Wellsville, N.Y.; a sister, Mrs. Ruth Ingalls Kyde of Allentown, N.Y.; and two grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete this morning. They are being handled by Wheeler & Thompson Funeral Home.

-Descendant of Samuel/Margaret Delano line -

Aaron B1580

Lyle Ingalls, s/o Oren Francis Ingalls/Clara Withey, b 18 Aug 1916 m Ann Trager 1941 – AIS

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WANTED: Copy of Samuel(7) Ingalls works reported published at Angelica, NY in 1825 - "Unlearned Poet” – Will pay for photocopy if no prints are found. Contact: Arlene Schrader.

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New Hampshire 1776 Census by Holbrook – Index, p 79, Vol XXX, NH State Papers

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REUNIONS

INGALL/S REUNION MET AT Ralph Ingalls … Descendants of GEO. AUGUSTUS INGALL, b 22 May 1815, England, d 1904 Lenawee County, MI – see March, 1987 II page 161-2 for obituary. Submitted by Larry Ingall and Martha Ellenwood.

1793 INGALLS REUNION 1987 – All members of the JACOB INGALLS FAMILY were invited to meet … Norton Hill, New York for their 59^th Annual Reunion, Saturday, October 10^th at 11:30 a.m. Eleanor Ingalls Family will host.

Jacob Ingalls (B561-6) settled in Albany County, New York State, in 1793. Edm. (1), John (2), Edm (3), Joseph (4), Joseph, jr (5)

Submitted by Ralph Ware.

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BOOKS OF INTEREST

The Ingalls Family in England and America by Walter R. Ingalls 1930 (reprinted 1985 with notes and corrections by author) 84 pages … Available from: Parker River Researchers, PO Box 86, Newburyport, MA 01950-0186 (advertised in Gen. Helper, Sept-Oct 1987) - AIS

New books by William Anderson for 1987 - The Walnut Grove Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the story of the Ingalls family and Walnut Grove. Includes unpublished writings of Laura and over 70 illustrations.

The Horn Book's Laura Ingalls Wilder - a reprint of the 1943 and 1953 Horn Book articles, with additional material and illustrations.

Other books available from above: The Story of the Ingalls, story of the Wilders, Laura's Rose, A Wilder in the West, Laura Wilder of Mansfield .....

Ingalls Family Album .....

Available from: Anderson Publications, Box 423, Davison, MI 48423 - AIS

Reprints still available of: The Genealogy and History of the Ingalls Family in America, compiled and published in 1903 by Charles Burleigh, M.D.  . . . .

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BOOKS OF INTEREST

The Famous and Not So Famous, published by Verndale Historical Society, Verndale, Minnesota 56481.... family histories total 1,432 pages, contain over 5,000 family name entries; 500 photos, interesting documents, and charts; four-volume set; names listed alphabetically and cross indexed. . . . .

MaryLu McClure, President of Verndale Historical Society writes: "..Verndale Ingalls appear on page 598 of our books."

"Linda Ingalls Wright comments on Hastings and Clarks. These families as well as the Wrights were early settlers in Verndale. So if she is looking for branch lines, I might have a long lost cousin.

"Ingalls families often referred to as Methodists in the Inquirer. The Methodist church is the oldest church in Verndale.

"Alice D. Finley of New Brighton, MN: did any of your Ingalls and Beavers come to Madena County in 1876-78? The founder of our town was a Smith whose daughter married a Beaver. E. Engalls was one of the town's first blacksmiths. They came here from Iowa."

"Verndale's first settlers came to Wadena county in 1876-1878 from Iowa."

Thank you, MaryLu McClure, for sharing this information with our readers!

Re: Verndale Journal, May 12, 1892

“BLACK,” The Percheron Stallion

Managed by E. L.  Ingalls, was foaled March 1, 1884, imported in 1888, bred M. Brunet, commune of Brullemail, can ton of Courtemer. Sire, Thomas (1278),he by Romulus (785), he by Romulus, owned by M. Caget, dam Coquette (12116), he by Waterloo (733), he by Jean Bart (716), he by Bayard owned by M. Perpere.

'Black' is registered In the Percheron Stud Book of France No. 12111, and in the Percheron Stud Book of America No. 8860.

'Black' is a very fine type of his kind, weighing. 1900 pounds; he can be seen Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week at Eddy's Livery Stable at Verndale. We invite breeders to look at this fine specimen of horse-flesh before pledging their mares to owners of other horses. Mr. E. L. Ingalls will accompany the horse in person.

E. L. Ingalls, Manager.

INGALLS, ENOCH L.

Re: 1885 MN Census, at Verndale, MN

E. L. Ingalls, age 53

Clara Ingalls, age 47

Both natives of Maine

Living in their household, Lottie and B. Kavanaugh also from Maine.

Re: Wadena County Tribune, 12-5-1878 "Blacksmithing"

Verndale Journal, 10-31-1879, "E. L. Ingall returned to McLeod Co, MN, to visit.

Wadena Journal, 3-19-1897, “E. L. Ingalls is still very sick … Mrs. Lottie Hauver, of Bloomington, IL, is here assisting … Mart and Wallace Ingalls, sons of E. L. Ingalls have been here ..”

In February of 1898, Wallace Ingalls left with others from Verndale for the Klondyke and returned the following September.

Re: Verndale Journal, 11-14-1879, "Grandfather Ingalls proudly announced the birth of a grandson born to Wallace Ingalls."

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INDEX TO FEDERAL CENSUS, CALIFORNIA, 1860- p 415

There are other names included in the index with various spellings, such as INGLESTON, INGLISH, so refer to the printed index for additional possible names.

There are other names included in the index with various spellings, such as INGLESTON, INGLISH, so refer to the printed index for additional possible names.

(Contributed by Anne Robinson, CA)

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QUERY Submitted by Marta Walz Sprecht. She writes:

“At the 1981 INGALLS Family Reunion held the first Sunday of August every year at the El Dorado City Park, El Dorado, Kansas, I handed out group sheets and had everyone there fill them out. While in Kansas that summer I did some research at the library and surrounding towns. "Not much of my information is documented with legal forms, and the connection of HENRY INGALLS, the father of GEORGE WASHINGTON INGALLS, with the HENRY INGALLS of DuPage Co., ILL is based on remembrances of my grandmother and my great-aunts Helen and Hazel, who recall visiting the area as children.

The above mentioned reunion used to draw 75-80 people in the late sixties and early seventies, but now only a few attend. It is supposed to be for all the descendants of George and Rosa Bell.

If anyone has something that you think might tie in with this line, I would certainly appreciate added information.” (Marta Specht, OR)

Picture (omitted) of GEORGE WASHINGTON INGALLS and R0SA BEIL RENNAKER (see B2791)

George Washington Ingalls

b 9 October 1862 Shelby, Iowa d 11 March 1950 ElDorado, KS

son of Henry Ingalls/Emily Hall

Married 7 Dec 1886 Caldwell KS

Rosa Bell Rennaker

b 4 Jan 1870/71 Marion, Indiana

d 5 Sept 1943 EllDorado, KS

dau of Jacob Clentitine Rennaker/Martha Mirrah Arthurhultz

Children: George Edward, Myrtle May, Louisa, Frank, Earl Abner, Hazel Belle,  Henry Jacob, Helen Viola, Martha Emily, Herbert Wilson.

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Marta, Linda Wright and I would appreciate receiving additional family group-sheets for the upcoming INGALLS genealogy supplement. Thank you for your contributions:

CIVIL WAR PENSION APPLICATION COPY AVAILABLE – see B5144 p 246 – DAVID D. INGALLS, a.k.a. Ingles enrolled 1862 MI Infantry Vol., discharged at Goldsboro, NC 5 Apr 1865. Married 1 Jan 1867 Sarah Floor Fort Huron, MI. Resided in Genesee County, Michigan after discharge.

Father's name: David; had two children, Lena Maude and Mertie May.

This file is several pages of affidavits, discharge notes, etc., and is available to anyone sending . . . . I would like to reach descendants of this family. ...Arlene Schrader . . .

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Query submitted by Leonard H. Elwell  . . . as follows:

EDMUND INGALLS, b 5 Dec 1810 NY married CALISTA POTTS at Granville, WI 25 Oct 1853. Their children were: 1) Frances b 11 Sept 1854; 2) Josephine b 19 Aug 1856; 3) Mary b 26 Oct 1857; 4) Edmund b 23 Aug 1859.

Edmund's father died young. His mother, Betsy (Elizabeth) nee McDonald, remarried to a J. Cole. There were six Cole children. Edmund found the Cole household uncongenial and, though he loved his mother very much, he left home at an early age. His whereabouts are unknown to me until he appears in the 1850 U.S. Census for Decatur, Van Buren Co, MI as EDWARD ENGALS, grocer, b NY.

Please can anyone tell me what was the given name off Edmund's father? Where in New York state was Edmund born? Where was he before age 40?

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BITS AND PIECES

The following was received by Linda Ingalls Wright from a distant cousin, Albert Carlton (Jack) Proctor, in some genealogy information.*

A FAMILY MIX

In the early part of the last century, there lived in an old New England town, a Mr. Church who, in the course of his pilgrimage through this vale of tears, was bereft of four wives, all of whom were buried in the same lot.

In his old age, it became necessary to remove the bodies to a new cemetery. This melancholy task the much bereaved widower undertook himself, but in the process, the bones of the lamented quartet became hopelessly mixed.

Priding himself on possession of a New England conscience, Mr. Church would not, under the painful circumstances, permit the use of the original headstones, but procured new ones, one of which bore the following inscription:

"Here lies Hannah Church, and probably a portion of Emily Church, who seems to be mixed with Matilda."

Then follows these lines:

"Stranger, stop and drop a tear,

For Emily Church lies buried here.

Mixed in some perplexing manner

With Mary, Matilda, and probably Hannah."

*(From the Hillsdale Standard, Hillsdale, MI,; quoted in the Federation of Genealogical Societies Newsletter.)

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NEW YORK STATE Directory information submitted by Irene Ingalls, NY:

AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST----FARM DIRECTORY AND REFERENCE BOOK OTSEGO AND HERKIMER COUNTIES ----1917

Abbreviations (American Agriculturist)

Acres---------------A

Children -----------ch

Bell Telephone----BT

General Delivery--Gen Del

Has to Sell--------s

Highway-----------H

House & Lot-------H&L

Independent Telephone----IT

Owns---------------0

Rents--------------T or R

Rural Delivery-----rd

Telephone --------T

Township ---------tn

Vegetables -------Veg

Widow ------------Wid

Works of Shares -WOS

OTSEGO COUNTY

Ingalls, B, E, (Grace) 1ch,"Davidson Farm" farmer (corn hay beets cabbage) 0 104a Hartwick Seminary Hartwick tn T H441/8.

Ingalls, George (Nellie) manager rd1 Oneonta Oneonta to T H5.

Ingalls, H. C. (Theresa) "Otsego Valley St Farm" farmer (hay corn) 0 190a rd3 Cooperstown Hartwick to T H 26.

Ingalls, Nelson F, (Anna L.) 1ch farmer teamster (corn potatoes) 0 14a Unadilla Unadilla tn T H68.

Ingalls, Will E. (Cordelia) Middlefield Middlefield tn T H83.

Vanalstine, Addison R. (Zora) 6ch farmer (dairy) 0 152a WOS 90a E Springfield Springfield tn H32.

Vanalstine, Charles E. (Margarette) R 211a rd2 Unadilla Unadilla tn H54/8.

Vanalstine, John E. (Della) 3ch "Sulphur Spring" farmer 0 88a Star Route W Oneonta Laurens to T H76.

Vanalstine, Wm. 1ch farmer 0 100a Maple Valley Westford tn T H221/8.

HERKIMER COUNTY

Van Alstine, George (Maria) "Van Alstine Homestead" farmer (hay) 0 70a rd1 Mohawk Columbia tn T H10.

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OTSEGO COUNTY DIRECTORY 1872---1873 (number is the acreage)

Rosebloom

Van Alstine, Wm., (South Valley,) farmer leases of Henry Pramer, 50.

Vanalstyne, WM., (Rosebloom,) farmer 73.

Cherry Valley

Van Alstine, Abram, (Cherry Valley) farmer 50.

Van Alstine, Elias, (Cherry Valley) farmer 59.

OTSEGO COUNTY DIRECTORY 1872---1873 by Hamilton Child (Post Office Addresses in Parentheses.) number is acreage

Hartwick

Ingalls, Allen, (Cooperstown,) farmer 50.

Ingalls, Evander, (Cooperstown#) farmer 140.

Ingalls, Menzo, (Cooperstown,) farmer 70.

Middlefield

Ingalls, Alanson, (Milford,) farmer 140.

Ingalls, Ralph, (Middlefield,) farmer 90.

Ingals, William, (Middlefield,) farmer 60.

Oneonta

Ingalls, Geo. W., (Oneonta,) carpenter, Chestnut.

Ingalls, John C. (Oneonta,) stone cutter, Chestnut.

Richfield

Ingalls, Daniel D. (Schuyler's Lake,) farmer leases 127.

Ingalls, Harriet Mrs., (Schuyler's Lake,) milliner.

Ingalls, Henry F., (Schuyler's Lake,) farmer 22.

Springfield

Ingals, S. M., (Springfield,) farmer 202.

Engell, Giles H., (Springfield Center,) saw mill, turning shop and farmer 13.

Engell, Joshua, (Springfield Center,) farmer 76.

Cherry Valley

Engall, James (Center Valley,) farmer leases of Adam Engell, 132.

Engell, Adam, (Center Valley,) farmer 208.