James Melville Ingram, Jr.

1872 - 1949  (76 years)

• Name	James Melville Ingram  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	12 Dec 1872	San Augustine County, Texas   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Aug 1949	San Augustine County, Texas   [1, 3]
  Buried	San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas   [3]
  Notes	https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDRL-1XG name: James Melville Ingram death date: 27 Aug 1949 death place: San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas gender: Male race: White death age: 76 years 8 months 15 days estimated birth date: birth date: 12 Dec 1872 birthplace: San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas marital status: Married spouse's name: father's name: J. M. Ingram father's birthplace: Georgia mother's name: Mary Cartwright mother's birthplace: Texas occupation: Merchant place of residence: San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas cemetery: City Cemetery burial place: San Augustine, San Augustine, Texas burial date: 28 Aug 1949 additional relatives: film number: 2223522 digital film number: 4169138 image number: 1423 reference number: 39881 Collection: James Melville Ingram, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"
  Person ID	I42049	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	19 Dec 2012

  
  

  Father	James "Jimmie" Melville Ingram,   b. 7 Dec 1840, Georgia ,   d. 7 Jun 1900, Kaufman County, Texas  (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Mary Crutchfield Cartwright,   b. 15 Oct 1845, San Augustine County, Texas ,   d. 23 Nov 1903, Kaufman County, Texas  (Age 58 years)
  Married	14 Dec 1865	San Augustine County, Texas   [4, 5]
  	Mary and her sister Anna had commenced writing letters to "care-worn soldiers" other than their brothers...and their correspondence between Mary and Capt. James M Ingram blossomed into an engagment and marriage at the end of the war. (Henson and Cartwright, p. 227) After the war, he came to Matthew's door to ask for Mary's hand. Mary gave her father a long list of necessities before he again left for Shreveport, and returned home in October with almost all she had requested. The wedding took place in the Cartwright Parlor. Matthew paid $8 for photographs of the happy couple and the family, and a month later, just before the couple left for Opelousa, Louisiana, he gave his daughter $2,000 as a wedding gift. Money now had to substitute for the traditional family matrimonal gift of land and slaves. Ingram took his bride to his family's Evergreen farm near Opelousa, where he and Mary lived jointly with his sister Molly and her husband, Dr. Hector McDuffie . (ibid, pp. 243-246). After her father'e estate was settled, the Ingram's moved to the 428-acre farm on the eastern edge of San Augustine upon which Columbus Cartwright had formerly resided. (ibid, p. 282). In 1873, Lon and Ludie Cartwright once again swapped residences with Jimmie and Mary, returning to their old home in San Augustine while the Ingrams moved to Sexton. (ibid, p. 283). He ran a plantation at Sexton, in Sabine County, where he also owned a cotton gin and conducted land business like his Cartwright brother-in-law. Ingram relatives often lived with them including a spinster who provided company for Mary when Jimmie traveled on business. In 1888 Jimmie became the state senator for District 2, composed of Sabine, Shelby, San Augustine, and Rusk counties. Mary accompanied her husband to Austin for the first session in at the start of 1889, staying briefly at the Driskill Hotel before settling into one of the numberous boarding houses near the capitol. He was reelected for a second term in 1891, and Mary did not go to Austin again, having discovered few wives accopanied their legislative husbands (ibid, pp. 302-304). After the 1894 death of Amanda Cartwright, they also moved to Terrell, Texas, their family circle complete, but for brother Columbus. (ibid, p. 307).
  Family ID	F1665	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 12 Dec 1872 - San Augustine County, Texas Died - 27 Aug 1949 - San Augustine County, Texas Buried - - San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S1426] Henson, Margaret Swett and Parmelee, Deolece "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993), Appendix, Chart II: John Cartwright's Children and Grandchildren (Reliability: 3). [S308] 1880 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005., (1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ? Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls. This database is an index to 50 million individuals enumerated in the 1880 United States Federal Census. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, occupation, relationship to the head of household, race, sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth, parents? place of birth. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1880 Federal Census.), Enumerated June 30 and July 1, 1880 Page 23 SD 1 ED 86 Stamped 248C 202-202 (Reliability: 3). [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/). [S292] Collins, Jerry H. (Jerry H. Collins@comcast.net) Ver. 2009-01-18; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jhc-3cousins. [S1426] Henson, Margaret Swett and Parmelee, Deolece "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993), p. 243, 246 (Reliability: 3).