son of George J. Ingram and Mary Martin. After attending school in Princeton and Cumberland College, George F. enlisted at age seventeen, with his brother James, in the Confederate Army at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. A member of Company "G" of the First Kentucky Cavalry, George Ingram served under the commands of Generals Forrest, Morgan, and Wheeler, and after six months as a prisoner at Camp Morton was exchanged at Vicksburg. Then attached to the Eighth Kentucky Infantry until remounted. The was having come to a close, he returned to Kentucky for a few weeks, in 1865, and then set out for the Far West. At winters end in 1866, Ingram started from Salt Lake City as assistant wagon boss of Gilman & Saulsbury, freighters. He left the train at the head of Black Tail Canyon and rode by coach into Virginia City on July 2, 1866.
For the next five years, throughout the Montana Territory, George Ingram was engaged in various pursuits: he had a grocery business, was a brakeman on the Central Pacific Railroad, owned a billiard parlor hauled freight, and taught school. In March, 1873, he lift Bozeman for the Yellowstone National Park and there built for Horr & McCarthy the first log house in the park at Mammoth Hot Springs. In summer and fall 1874, Ingram ran an express from Helena to Carroll for the Diamond R Company. his trip from Helena to Carroll, begun the first of January 1875 and completed the first of February, was notable for having been made in the "Coldest winter ever known in the State of Montana, at Hoply's Hole, sixty-five degrees below zero". Mr. Ingram was four days in traveling thirty miles. From that spring until the first of May 1876, he carried the mail from Buford to Helena, and about the first of July he went by boat to Bismark, and by team to Deadwood City in the Black Hills.
On September 1877, George F. Ingram was married to Miss Lizzie Nichols, who was born and reared in the Bitter Root Valley of Montana. Their marriage was the first in the Black Hills at which a minister of the gospel officiated. Lizzie Ingram died in May 1883, and George f. was married to Miss Minnie Craig of Deadwood on Christmas Day 1887. The couple moved in 1890 to Spokane and soon thereafter settled in Helena, Montana. A United Confederate Veteran and former Deputy United States Marshall, in Deadwood, in charge of all of Dakota territory west of the Missouri River, George Felix Ingram died on October 27, 1920. His and Lizzie's son, George W. , born July 1880, had been killed while serving with the American Volunteers in the Philippines in 1900.
Surviving George F. were his and Minnie's children, Charles Craig Ingram, born 11 June 1894 & died 8 Oct 1971, a Navy veteran of WWI, and Doris Ingram Anderson, born Jan 1896 and died Jan 1963, a teacher in Montana.
By: Bruce C. Laine, 30 Colonia Dr, Norton, Ma. Great-grandson of George F. and Minnie Craig Ingram.
Note: Of the thirteen children of George J and Mary Martin, only George F., James F, Charles H, Mary E., and Elizabeth W. are known. Mr. Laine seeks more information about George Felix's twelve siblings and their parent.
For the next five years, throughout the Montana Territory, George Ingram was engaged in various pursuits: he had a grocery business, was a brakeman on the Central Pacific Railroad, owned a billiard parlor hauled freight, and taught school. In March, 1873, he lift Bozeman for the Yellowstone National Park and there built for Horr & McCarthy the first log house in the park at Mammoth Hot Springs. In summer and fall 1874, Ingram ran an express from Helena to Carroll for the Diamond R Company. his trip from Helena to Carroll, begun the first of January 1875 and completed the first of February, was notable for having been made in the "Coldest winter ever known in the State of Montana, at Hoply's Hole, sixty-five degrees below zero". Mr. Ingram was four days in traveling thirty miles. From that spring until the first of May 1876, he carried the mail from Buford to Helena, and about the first of July he went by boat to Bismark, and by team to Deadwood City in the Black Hills.
On September 1877, George F. Ingram was married to Miss Lizzie Nichols, who was born and reared in the Bitter Root Valley of Montana. Their marriage was the first in the Black Hills at which a minister of the gospel officiated. Lizzie Ingram died in May 1883, and George f. was married to Miss Minnie Craig of Deadwood on Christmas Day 1887. The couple moved in 1890 to Spokane and soon thereafter settled in Helena, Montana. A United Confederate Veteran and former Deputy United States Marshall, in Deadwood, in charge of all of Dakota territory west of the Missouri River, George Felix Ingram died on October 27, 1920. His and Lizzie's son, George W. , born July 1880, had been killed while serving with the American Volunteers in the Philippines in 1900.
Surviving George F. were his and Minnie's children, Charles Craig Ingram, born 11 June 1894 & died 8 Oct 1971, a Navy veteran of WWI, and Doris Ingram Anderson, born Jan 1896 and died Jan 1963, a teacher in Montana.
By: Bruce C. Laine, 30 Colonia Dr, Norton, Ma. Great-grandson of George F. and Minnie Craig Ingram.
Note: Of the thirteen children of George J and Mary Martin, only George F., James F, Charles H, Mary E., and Elizabeth W. are known. Mr. Laine seeks more information about George Felix's twelve siblings and their parent.
son of George J. Ingram and Mary Martin. After attending school in Princeton and Cumberland College, George F. enlisted at age seventeen, with his brother James, in the Confederate Army at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. A member of Company "G" of the First Kentucky Cavalry, George Ingram served under the commands of Generals Forrest, Morgan, and Wheeler, and after six months as a prisoner at Camp Morton was exchanged at Vicksburg. Then attached to the Eighth Kentucky Infantry until remounted. The was having come to a close, he returned to Kentucky for a few weeks, in 1865, and then set out for the Far West. At winters end in 1866, Ingram started from Salt Lake City as assistant wagon boss of Gilman & Saulsbury, freighters. He left the train at the head of Black Tail Canyon and rode by coach into Virginia City on July 2, 1866.
For the next five years, throughout the Montana Territory, George Ingram was engaged in various pursuits: he had a grocery business, was a brakeman on the Central Pacific Railroad, owned a billiard parlor hauled freight, and taught school. In March, 1873, he lift Bozeman for the Yellowstone National Park and there built for Horr & McCarthy the first log house in the park at Mammoth Hot Springs. In summer and fall 1874, Ingram ran an express from Helena to Carroll for the Diamond R Company. his trip from Helena to Carroll, begun the first of January 1875 and completed the first of February, was notable for having been made in the "Coldest winter ever known in the State of Montana, at Hoply's Hole, sixty-five degrees below zero". Mr. Ingram was four days in traveling thirty miles. From that spring until the first of May 1876, he carried the mail from Buford to Helena, and about the first of July he went by boat to Bismark, and by team to Deadwood City in the Black Hills.
On September 1877, George F. Ingram was married to Miss Lizzie Nichols, who was born and reared in the Bitter Root Valley of Montana. Their marriage was the first in the Black Hills at which a minister of the gospel officiated. Lizzie Ingram died in May 1883, and George f. was married to Miss Minnie Craig of Deadwood on Christmas Day 1887. The couple moved in 1890 to Spokane and soon thereafter settled in Helena, Montana. A United Confederate Veteran and former Deputy United States Marshall, in Deadwood, in charge of all of Dakota territory west of the Missouri River, George Felix Ingram died on October 27, 1920. His and Lizzie's son, George W. , born July 1880, had been killed while serving with the American Volunteers in the Philippines in 1900.
Surviving George F. were his and Minnie's children, Charles Craig Ingram, born 11 June 1894 & died 8 Oct 1971, a Navy veteran of WWI, and Doris Ingram Anderson, born Jan 1896 and died Jan 1963, a teacher in Montana.
By: Bruce C. Laine, 30 Colonia Dr, Norton, Ma. Great-grandson of George F. and Minnie Craig Ingram.
Note: Of the thirteen children of George J and Mary Martin, only George F., James F, Charles H, Mary E., and Elizabeth W. are known. Mr. Laine seeks more information about George Felix's twelve siblings and their parent.
For the next five years, throughout the Montana Territory, George Ingram was engaged in various pursuits: he had a grocery business, was a brakeman on the Central Pacific Railroad, owned a billiard parlor hauled freight, and taught school. In March, 1873, he lift Bozeman for the Yellowstone National Park and there built for Horr & McCarthy the first log house in the park at Mammoth Hot Springs. In summer and fall 1874, Ingram ran an express from Helena to Carroll for the Diamond R Company. his trip from Helena to Carroll, begun the first of January 1875 and completed the first of February, was notable for having been made in the "Coldest winter ever known in the State of Montana, at Hoply's Hole, sixty-five degrees below zero". Mr. Ingram was four days in traveling thirty miles. From that spring until the first of May 1876, he carried the mail from Buford to Helena, and about the first of July he went by boat to Bismark, and by team to Deadwood City in the Black Hills.
On September 1877, George F. Ingram was married to Miss Lizzie Nichols, who was born and reared in the Bitter Root Valley of Montana. Their marriage was the first in the Black Hills at which a minister of the gospel officiated. Lizzie Ingram died in May 1883, and George f. was married to Miss Minnie Craig of Deadwood on Christmas Day 1887. The couple moved in 1890 to Spokane and soon thereafter settled in Helena, Montana. A United Confederate Veteran and former Deputy United States Marshall, in Deadwood, in charge of all of Dakota territory west of the Missouri River, George Felix Ingram died on October 27, 1920. His and Lizzie's son, George W. , born July 1880, had been killed while serving with the American Volunteers in the Philippines in 1900.
Surviving George F. were his and Minnie's children, Charles Craig Ingram, born 11 June 1894 & died 8 Oct 1971, a Navy veteran of WWI, and Doris Ingram Anderson, born Jan 1896 and died Jan 1963, a teacher in Montana.
By: Bruce C. Laine, 30 Colonia Dr, Norton, Ma. Great-grandson of George F. and Minnie Craig Ingram.
Note: Of the thirteen children of George J and Mary Martin, only George F., James F, Charles H, Mary E., and Elizabeth W. are known. Mr. Laine seeks more information about George Felix's twelve siblings and their parent.
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