Ruth Pepper was born in Jerusalem, in the area of Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, which is in the Finger Lakes region of the state, to John William Pepper and Ruth Ann Kirk. Both parents had immigrated from Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. She had a sister, Dorothy, and a brother, Philip Pepper. Ruth married Howard Raymond Ingraham in Rochester, Monroe County, New York on November 16, 1910, and they later worked a huge farm with a big white farmhouse, concord grape vineyards, and every type of animal, fruit and vegetable imaginable. They raised two sons, Raymond and Warren, and four daughters, Wilma, Ruth, Marguerite, and Mary in that house. Son Warren died at age seven.. The farmhouse had a wood fire kitchen stove. There was an outhouse, and water for the kitchen was brought up by the pail from a pump down the hill in a gully, where they planted potatoes. There was a cow, a horse to pull the plow, rabbits, chickens, pigs, apple, cherry and pear trees, strawberries, red and black raspberries, and altogether it was a magical place. It's now a State Park. They would often spendwinters in Florida, beginning in the 1920s, and would eventually retire to a cottage in Longwood, north of Orlando, Florida. One of their daughters, Marguerite, lived across the street and would look after them in their later years. Her husband predeceased her in death She was survived by their son Raymond Ingraham, daughters Wilma Merril McMaster, Ruth Anora Vonderlin, Marguerite Rae Shea Umstead, and Mary Staples, plus many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Ruth Pepper was born in Jerusalem, in the area of Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, which is in the Finger Lakes region of the state, to John William Pepper and Ruth Ann Kirk. Both parents had immigrated from Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. She had a sister, Dorothy, and a brother, Philip Pepper. Ruth married Howard Raymond Ingraham in Rochester, Monroe County, New York on November 16, 1910, and they later worked a huge farm with a big white farmhouse, concord grape vineyards, and every type of animal, fruit and vegetable imaginable. They raised two sons, Raymond and Warren, and four daughters, Wilma, Ruth, Marguerite, and Mary in that house. Son Warren died at age seven.. The farmhouse had a wood fire kitchen stove. There was an outhouse, and water for the kitchen was brought up by the pail from a pump down the hill in a gully, where they planted potatoes. There was a cow, a horse to pull the plow, rabbits, chickens, pigs, apple, cherry and pear trees, strawberries, red and black raspberries, and altogether it was a magical place. It's now a State Park. They would often spendwinters in Florida, beginning in the 1920s, and would eventually retire to a cottage in Longwood, north of Orlando, Florida. One of their daughters, Marguerite, lived across the street and would look after them in their later years. Her husband predeceased her in death She was survived by their son Raymond Ingraham, daughters Wilma Merril McMaster, Ruth Anora Vonderlin, Marguerite Rae Shea Umstead, and Mary Staples, plus many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
