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From: "Bernie Moore-Knowles" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] Ingram-SuziQ
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 10:30:48 -0700
References: <MABBJGIPAKEFJMAGAGKEAEGMCJAA.suzi@sgshoemake.com>


Aaah, so it was the railroad mafia? Now, would this be agreat short story
or what? Someone knocked the poor guy off?

Makes you speculate on just what he was into, doesn't it?

Thanks for the tidbit, SuizQ. It's a saver.

Bernie Moore-Knowles
Phoenix, Arizona

"I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
question my honesty." ........Will Rogers

----- Original Message -----
From: "S G Shoemake" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 7:18 AM
Subject: RE: [ARIZARD-L] Ingram-Bern


> Bern_
>
> I show that your Elihu Ingram was born about 1889, based on his age on his
> marriage to Ethel Langston.
>
> I also have this note from this list regarding his death:
>
> "An interesting story was also told me about Elihu Ingram.
> Aunt Verbel Lillian Ray Moser states that Elihu Ingram
> died in what was reported as a railroad car accident.
>
> He was painting railroad cars and (so the story
> goes) someone on the railroad did him in but it
> was made to look like an
> accident (more of that went on back then we
> would all like to believe)."
>
> So, at any rate, accident or not, it wasn't the flu, according to this
note.
>
> ..in the for what it's worth department.
>
> ss
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernie Moore-Knowles [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:25 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L]Blankinship, Langston, Ingram, Bramblett,
> Ruminer, Griffin and Snelgroves
> Izard Co., Arkansas Marriage Record Book, No. 2 (1893-1898):
> Snelgroves, (Snelgroose), Mittie, 17, Calico Rock Izard to Ingram, Elihu
P.,
> 27, Calico Rock Izard. Date of marriage: January 6, 1898. By: Thomas
S.
> Evans, Deacon. Sec.: T. N. Staggs.
>
> This last marriage is real interesting to me. My mother's cousin; Ethel
> Langston was married the first time to an Elihu H. Ingram (b1870),
secondly
> to a Ruminer and lastly to a John Griffin.
>
> Ingram died in 1918 (Flu epidemic?) and Ethel remarried to her neighbor,
> Dickson Ruminer - who had lost his longtime wife; Joanna Bramblett to the
> epidemic, also. Wonder if the two Elihu Ingrams are connected? Like
maybe
> the one that was married to Mittie Snelgroves was the father of Ethel's
> husband?
>
> Just a thought. If anyone knows anything about these families, I'd
> appreciate your sharing. For instance......John Griffin? Anyone heard of
> him? I think that he was a great deal older than Ethel, judging from the
> last letter and photograph that Ethel had sent Mother. So, maybe he was
> born circa 1875 or so?
>
>
> Bernie Moore-Knowles
> Phoenix, Arizona
>
> "I have Indian blood in me. I have just enough White blood for you to
> question my honesty." ........Will Rogers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vera Reeves" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 4:01 PM
> Subject: [ARIZARD-L] Felix Snelgroves
>
>
> > > Hi Vera...There is another Snellgrove, in the 1910 census, its Alfred
> > >Snellgrove, 23, who is most likely the first child...He and his wife
are
> > >listed next door to the Marchant family who has Clatus M. Marchant who
> > >married Clifford Snellgrove
> >
> > > By the way, the 1900 census gives Malisse' age as 36, and 10 years
later
> > in
> > > 1910 she is only 42......go figure...!!
> >
> > It's like in one she's married 22 and 10 years later married 30,
> >
> > 1900 This Snelgroves Family lived along the Izard - Baxter County line
> near
> > the White River. They live next door to the George W. Berry Family who
> lived
> > at Berry Switch and not far away lived George's mother-in-law Elizabeth
> > Talley.
> >
> > Some of the descendants went to school with my mother in 1926-1927 Berry
> > (Moccasin) School, Baxter County. This school was just across the
Moccasin
> > Creek from Izard county.
> >
> > Snelgroves, Bernistian b. 3 Jan 1920
> > ----------------, Faye b. 11 Sep 1913
> > ----------------, Hayden b. 1 Aug 1915
> > ----------------, Olitia b. 11 Dec 1910
> > ----------------, Turman b. 2 Jan 1816
> > C. H. Snelgroves is listed as parent or guardian
> >
> > ---------------, Ernest b. 23 Dec 1912
> > parent or guardian was J. A. Snelgroves
> >
> > ---------------, Hershel b. 12 Dec 1924
> > parent or guardian was J. A. Snelgroves but then the next year
> > Hurshell b. 19 Dec 1923 next year Hershel b. 13 Dec 1923
> >
> > I'm afraid these records can't be counted on to be correct.
> >
> > Don't know if this might give someone some names or not but don't count
to
> > heavy on the birth dates.
> >
> > Vera
> >
> >
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> > 1880 Izard County Census On-line at:
> http://geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9271/census.html
> >
> >
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