Elizabeth Ann PEERSON INGRAM

Elizabeth Ann
Birth 17 Mar 1816 in Gibson, Indiana, United States
Death 28 Jul 1894 in Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas
Parents: William Pearson, Martha Patsy Strickland

Married: 1833 6 Mar Carrollton, Fulton, Illinois

Rev William
Birth: 16 Apr 1815 - Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, United States
Death: 30 Oct 1898 - Greenland, Washington, Arkansas, United States
Parents: Shadrack Ingram, Mary Polly Deloach

GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY, ARKANSAS 1889 BIOGRAPHIES

William Ingram

William Ingram was born near Lebanon, Tenn.,March 16, 1815, and
remained with his father, Shadrach Ingram Jr., until seventeen years of age, when he went to the State of Illinois, near Carrollton, where, in his eighteenth year, he became amember of the church (Old School Baptist). There he also met and married Miss ElizabethA. Pearson, of Puritan stock, March 6, 1833. She was born April 17, 1817, in GibsonCounty, Ind. Early in the September following their union they started for the Territoryof Arkansas, arriving at Fayetteville in October, and settling near that (then) small village, where Mr. Ingram commenced farming and preaching. Arkansas was then a wild anddreary wilderness, and when he went out to preach he could do no better than some of hisearliest predecessors, go out without scrip or purse, because wild meat and honey wereplenty, and both proved an acceptable diet in those days. On the night of November 10,1833, Mr. Ingram and wife went out on the mountain (four miles from town( to sit up withold Uncle Johnnie Miller, who was quite ill, some eight or ten persons also being present.During their night watch, and about 2 o'clock A. M., on the morning of the 11th, thewhole heavens were singularly a-light by an immense blaze, which upon discovery, wasfound to proceed from a great meteoric shower; this occasion of "the falling stars" hasever been a matter of historical comment. In their extreme anxiety many kneeled andprayed to God to preserve them from a burning world, though others, and the more curious,watched the proceeding until it's close. Rev. Mr. Ingram and his wife are both living and well, still residing near Fayetteville, at the age of seventy-four. He is as regular inhis devotions to the ministry and the service of his Divine Master, as he was in startingout fifty-five or fifty-six years ago, and indeed more so, the trust which he once hadhaving been found by experience to be the only sure dependence, the beauty of whichincreases with years. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram are the parents of seven children, four boysand three girls: Mrs. Mary Davis (the eldest, living in Washington County:, John (subjectof this memoir, in Little Rock), Miss Elizabeth A. (died in 1864), Jones P. (a successfulfarm near Waveland, in Yell County), Miss Irena (lives with her respected father andmother), Sandy O. Ingram (also a farmer in Washington County) and Albert J, Ingram (theyoungest). The parents reside on the family homestead, and Albert J, is a successfulfarmer, well-to-do, and it is under his roof that the old people (his parents) and hisyoungest sister find a home of cheerful welcome, loving care, and all the needed comforts in their declining years. His father, now seventy-four years old, whose ministryruns back to his eighteenth or nineteenth year, is one whose life has been well spent,like Samuel of old, a servant of the most high God. Not only may he look back upon a lifewell spent in his efforts to call others to repentance, but he can and does sincerelyenjoy the proudest heritage of all mankind, that of knowing that his ancestors, for several centuries back, have been prominent in supplying servants and soldiers for theCross of Christ. John Ingram, son of Rev. William Ingram, was born near Fayetteville, Ark. , May 3, 1836. He remained with his father on the farm and attended the schools ofthe county, until about fifteen years old, after which he was employed in the circuitclerk's office, under Presley R. Smith, who was a native of Fayetteville, Tenn. Remainingthere and also attending school at the Arkansas College (then under the superintendenceof Rev. Robert Graham, president) for some time, he subsequently taught a county schoolabout one year, and at the end of that period was tendered and accepted a clerkship in the large and extensive wholesale and retail dry-goods and grocery house of Wallace Ward& Co. At the time of this offer to him, the firm name was Ward & Southmayd, Van Buren,Ark. The year 1861 still found him at this place, but he soon left it to enter the service of his native State, in the great contest for constitutional liberty. In eight orten months the troops were transferred to the Confederate cause, which cause he servedfaithfully until the last of May, 1865, when he was paroled with others by Gen. Canby.He arrived here in June, 1865, and has made this his place of residence ever since. Soonafter his arrival Mr. Ingram was married to Mrs. E. A. Broughton (formerly Miss Calhoun),who had one child, Mollie Broughton; the latter married Col. A. S. Fowler, a prominentcitizen and highly cultured gentleman of this city, who is doing a most extensive andprofitable life-insurance business. Mr. Ingram has three children: Sue Ayliff, CharleyCalhoun and Carrie Eugenia.

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