Some Ingrams and Their Spouses
THROUGH
MOUNTAIN MISTS
Early Settlers of Union
County, Georgia
Their
Descendants...Their Stories...Their Achievements
Lifting the
Mists of History on Their Way of Life
By: Ethelene Dyer Jones
Some
Ingrams and Their Spouses
We have, for two weeks, written
about the
families of John Little Ingram (1788-1866) and his father,
Revolutionary War
soldier, also named John Little Ingram (1755-1828).
It is interesting to note some of the
marriages of descendants of these Ingrams and see how the marriages
linked Ingrams
to other early settler families of Union County, Georgia.
Sarah
(better known as Sally) Ingram (1820- ?) was the fourth child of John
Little
Ingram (1788-1866) and his first
wife, Mary “Polly” Cagle Ingram (1793-1829-30?). Sally
Ingram married Thompson Collins, Jr.
(1818- ?). “Thompie,” as he was known,
was a son of early settlers Thompson Collins (1785-1858) and Celia Self
Collins
(1787-1880). Thompie and Sally did
not
have any children; at least, not any who lived to adulthood. Thompie Collins had a large portion of
farmland near the Notla
River from
holdings his
father had claimed in the 22,000 acres that once belonged to the elder
Thompson
Collins.
Thompie developed the land and had one
of the largest apple orchards known then in the Choestoe District along
what is
now Collins Road
on a rise between the present Wilonell Collins Dyer property and what
was the
Jewel Marion Dyer property.
Thompie Collins was, for many years, a
justice of the peace for the Choestoe District.
In viewing early Union
County marriage
records,
the name of Thompson Collins appears often as officiant of marriages in
the
community.
Nancy Ingram (1823-1897) was the sixth
child of John Little and Mary “Polly” Cagle Ingram.
She married Athan England (1815-1893), a son
of
William Richard England (1770-1835) and Martha “Patsy” Montgomery England
(178-1865). Richard England’s parents
were Daniel (1752-1818) and Margaret Gwynn England
(1758-1847). During the
Revolutionary War, Daniel England performed patriotic service by
operating his
iron foundry at his large plantation on Hunting Creek near Morganton, NC,
for the war effort.
When some of the England children migrated
to what
is now White
County (then
Habersham) during the gold
rush of 1828, Margaret, widowed, went with them. When
Richard and Martha England settled in
Choestoe, Union
County, in the
early 1830’s, Margaret England moved
with them. Margaret’s is said to be the
first grave in the old Choestoe
Church Cemetery. Athan
and Nancy Ingram England
had
these children: California E. England,
Tom P. England, Richard Little England, William H. England, and John E.
England. Athan and Nancy lived on a farm
in the area that is now the Georgia Mountain Experiment Station off
Highway
129/19 south of Blairsville.
Eliza Louisa Ingram (1827-1907) was
the eighth child of John Little and Mary “Polly” Cagle Ingram. She married James Marion Dyer (1823-1904) on June 18, 1846. They lived on a farm on Cane Creek, Choestoe,
where James Marion’s parents, Bluford Elisha Dyer, Jr. (1780-1845) and
Elizabeth Clark Dyer (1785-1861) had settled in the early 1830’s. James Marion
and Louisa Ingram Dyer had a large family of twelve children: Harriet Emaline who married Carr Colllins;
Joseph G. who married Polly Turner; Micager C. (“Buck”) who married
Josephine
Henson; Archibald C. Young who married Hannah Jane Wimpey; James C.
Dyer, died
at age two; Bluford Elisha Dyer who married Sarah Evaline Souther;
Nancy “Sis”
Dyer who married William Hunter; Elizabeth Caroline “Hon” Dyer who
married
William Albert Souther; Jefferson
Beauregard Dyer who married Rhoda Souther; Francis Marion Dyer who
married
Molly Dyer and Helen Dann; Mary Dyer, died young; and
James C. Dyer who married Malissa Swain.
Malinda Ingram (1829- ?) was the ninth
child of John Little and Mary “Polly” Cagle Ingram.
She married Andrew Townsend, son of Eli and
Sarah “Sally” Dyer Ingram. Andrew
Townsend, along with his father, Eli, served in the Texas War for Independence
against Mexico,
and was
honorably discharged from the service of the United States
on July 13, 1848
at Mobile, Alabama. For
his service, Andrew Townsend received 160
acres of bounty land. Malinda and Andrew
Townsend had these children: Thompson L.
“Bud” Townsend who never married; Thomas Simpson “Simp” Townsend who
married
Ruthie West and Wilda Hood; Nancy J. Townsend who married Thomas N.
England;
Amanda Jane Townsend who married Enoch Chapman Hood; Andrew Crockett
Townsend,
Jr., who married Myra Anne Duckworth, Mary Duckworth and Mary Hunter;
Elizabeth
Townsend who married William Jackson Shuler; and Clarasie Townsend who
married
Joshua Columbus Fortenberry.
Since
these daughters of John Little Ingram (Sally, Nancy, Louisa and
Malinda) are
only four of the twenty-one children of John Little Ingram who grew to
adulthood, these families comprise only a small portion of Ingram
descendants. If you can make your own
kinship connection back to any of these, you share in a rich heritage
of
Ingrams who reach back to England,
Wales
and Scotland
before migrating to the New World in
the late
1600’s.
c2005 by
Ethelene Dyer
Jones; published June 16, 2005 in The Union Sentinel, Blairsville,
GA.
Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
[Ethelene
Dyer Jones is a retired educator, freelance writer, poet, and historian.
She may be reached at e-mail edj0513@windstream.net;
phone 478-453-8751; or mail 1708
Cedarwood Road,
Milledgeville,
GA
31061-2411.]
Updated August 31,
2009
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