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Subject: Re: [ILMCDONO] Blankenship
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:52:02 EDT
Hi List ~
This is also my first post to the Mcdonough list. I've been searching for
my INGRAM/WAGNER line in the surrrounding county, but this one may be the
ticket.
My Greatgrandmother is missing. Born in 1879 in Plymouth, Schuyler County IL
as Etta "May" INGRAM, she was married young in Washington County Iowa and
divorced from my Ggrandfather Thomas C. LONGWELL in Knox County IL in 1900.
She apparently did not appear at the court hearing and lost custody of her
baby son, my grandfather, Charles Forrest LONGWELL b 1898 Maquon Knox County
IL (or Macomb??) and never saw him again. When he married in 1919, he
stated on the record that he did not know his mother's name.
He was killed in 1921 in a stone crushing machine accident near Davenport
Iowa, when he only child, my father, was an infant. Nothing was known about
this side of the family until I started a search 6 years ago.
"May"s parents died when she was small, and are most likely buried in the
Scott's cemetery in rural Mcdonough County, along with several other
relatives who lived in the McComb area. Her mother, Permelia BOX INGRAM,
is located there with a marker. But her father, Uriah INGRAM, is not.
Her grandparents were John and Elizabeth (Williams) BOX who lived in
Littleton, Schuyler County IL. and are buried in the Thompson cemetery in
Schuyler, near their homestead. They died in 1900 and 1901.
In 1903, Mrs "May" (INGRAM) LONGWELL married C. H. WAGNER, a potter of
Monmouth, Warren Co., IL. There is no record of her again until 1930ish,
when May's brother Newton INGRAM dies and she is listed as a survivor, living
in Vermont, Fulton County IL.
The obituary is as follows: (no date, but probably 1925-1930ish)
Newton Ingram, 1225 East Pierce street, died at the Phelps Hospital about
3:00a.m. yester after an illiness of one year. Funeral services will be held
at 2:00p.m. tomorrow at the Dodsworth funeral home. Rev. C.C. Mordling will
officiate, with the burial at Scotts cemetery.
He was the Son of Marire(Uriah) and Permelia Ingram and was born January 17,
1872, in Schuyler county. He resided in Bethel township before moving to
Macomb. In 1912 he married Mary Nancy Clark, who died about three months
ago. They had no children. He is survived by five sisters, Mesdames May
Wagner of Vermont, Sarah Alice Breeden of LaPrairie, Frances Mason of Macomb,
Belle Cracraft and Jane Scalf of Beatrice, Neb. Two Brothers, Jasper and
Charles Ingram are deceased.
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Does anyone have any access to Dodson Funeral home? Are they still in
business? Possibly they would have a record of "May" Ingram Longwell WAGNER?
That is probably my only hope, as I have ordered all the Death records from
the state of IL as well as SS records, and none of them match to her.
There are many relatives buried in Scott's cemetery, but available records
show they are not there....so perhaps they do not have markers? Or could be
in another cemetery nearby?
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you!
Valerie
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