Family: James "Jimmie" Melville Ingram / Mary Crutchfield Cartwright (F1665)

• Father | Male James "Jimmie" Melville Ingram

  
  

  Born	7 Dec 1840	Georgia
  Died	7 Jun 1900	Kaufman County, Texas
  Buried		Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas
  Married	14 Dec 1865  [1, 2]	San Augustine County, Texas  [1, 2]
  Father	Capt. William Ingram | F1666 Group Sheet
  Mother	Ann Bryan | F1666 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Mary Crutchfield Cartwright

  
  

  Born	15 Oct 1845	San Augustine County, Texas
  Died	23 Nov 1903	Kaufman County, Texas
  Buried		Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas
  Father	Matthew Cartwright | F3418 Group Sheet
  Mother	Amanda "Mandy" Holman | F3418 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male Matthew C. Ingram

  
  

  Born	Abt 1866
  Died	Abt 1867
  Buried

  
  

  Child 2 | Male William Holman Ingram

  
  

  Born	23 Dec 1867	San Augustine County, Texas
  Died	24 Oct 1923	Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas
  Buried		Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas

  
  

  Child 3 | Male Matthew Ingram

  
  

  Born	Abt 1869	Louisiana
  Died	Abt 1870	Louisiana
  Buried

  
  

  Child 4 | Female Amanda "Manda" Holman Ingram

  
  

  Born	19 Nov 1871	Texas
  Died	21 Oct 1948	San Augustine County, Texas
  Buried

  
  

  Child 5 | Male James Melville Ingram, Jr.

  
  

  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

  
  

  Child 6 | Male Leonidas Cartwright Ingram

  
  

  Born	8 Aug 1877	Texas
  Died	3 Dec 1965	Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas
  Buried		Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas

  
  

  Child 7 | Male Sidney Ingram

  
  

  Born	Abt 1881
  Died	Abt 1882
  Buried

  
  

• Notes

  Married: 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).

  
  

• Sources

  [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).