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Mary Crutchfield Cartwright

Female 1845 - 1903  (58 years)


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  • Name Mary Crutchfield Cartwright  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth 15 Oct 1845  San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Gender Female 
    Death 23 Nov 1903  Kaufman County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 6] 
    Burial Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I9724  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Matthew Cartwright,   b. 11 Nov 1807, Wilson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1870, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Amanda "Mandy" Holman,   b. 24 Jul 1817, Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jun 1894, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 18 Oct 1836  San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8] 
    • In "The Cartwrights of San Augustine,' a transcription of a stilted, formal note written by Matthew Cartwright to his future bride reads as follows:

      Miss Amanda Holman,

      Please allow me to address you for the first time with the most profound respect. I admire your person, your addrss and appearance....I have come to the conclusion that of all other objects met with in this life...you are the one. Therefore I now address you for the purpose of requesting permission to pay my suit on that of which is the most importance to me and I hope not indifferent to you. Please reply as soon as convenient and relieve the suspense of one who is desiorous to unite his fate and happiness in life with yours.
      Your obedient servant,
      Matthew Cartwright

      Amanda soon accepted Matthew's proposal, scheduling the ceremony for Octobe 18, 1836. Some months prior to the wedding she bought seven yards of French muslin and two bonnest at Matthew's store, and later pink silk and gauze ribbon, all suitable for a wedding.

      The couple was married nearly thirty-five years before Matthew's death, and Amanda survived him for nearly twenty-five additional years. They were buried side by side in a small family plot near their home in San Augustine. Youngest son Matthew later made arrangements to have his parents reinterred in Terrell, Texas, with a suitable marker, in September 1896. (Henson and Paremelee, p. 308).
    Family ID F3418  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James "Jimmie" Melville Ingram,   b. 7 Dec 1840, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jun 1900, Kaufman County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage 14 Dec 1865  San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 9] 
    • 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).
    Children 
     1. Matthew C. Ingram,   b. Abt 1866   d. Abt 1867 (Age ~ 1 years)
     2. William Holman Ingram,   b. 23 Dec 1867, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Oct 1923, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
     3. Matthew Ingram,   b. Abt 1869, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1870, Louisiana Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 1 years)
     4. Amanda "Manda" Holman Ingram,   b. 19 Nov 1871, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Oct 1948, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
     5. James Melville Ingram, Jr.,   b. 12 Dec 1872, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Aug 1949, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
     6. Leonidas Cartwright Ingram,   b. 8 Aug 1877, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Dec 1965, Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     7. Sidney Ingram,   b. Abt 1881   d. Abt 1882 (Age ~ 1 years)
    Family ID F1665  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2012 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 15 Oct 1845 - San Augustine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 14 Dec 1865 - San Augustine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 23 Nov 1903 - Kaufman County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S633] Davis, Kathryn Hooper "San Augustine County, Texas Census Records 1860".

    2. [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.

    3. [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), Oakland Memorial Park, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas (Reliability: 3).

    4. [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).

    5. [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).

    6. [S1426] Henson, Margaret Swett and Parmelee, Deolece "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993), p. 311 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S233] Noble, Harry P. Jr TEXAS TRAILBLAZERS: SAN AUGUSTINE PIONEERS (Best of East Texas: 1999), 85 (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S1426] Henson, Margaret Swett and Parmelee, Deolece "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993), p. 99 (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S1426] Henson, Margaret Swett and Parmelee, Deolece "The Cartwrights of San Augustine" (Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1993), p. 243, 246 (Reliability: 3).


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