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James Melville Ingram, Jr.

Male 1872 - 1949  (76 years)


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  • Name James Melville Ingram  [1, 2, 3
    Suffix Jr. 
    Birth 12 Dec 1872  San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Aug 1949  San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Burial San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 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) 
    Mother Mary Crutchfield Cartwright,   b. 15 Oct 1845, San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Nov 1903, Kaufman County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage 14 Dec 1865  San Augustine County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [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
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 12 Dec 1872 - San Augustine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 27 Aug 1949 - San Augustine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [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).

    2. [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).

    3. [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/).

    4. [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.

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