Ingalls Update

I have written several posts about the Ingalls family----Amanda Reiter married William Barber Ingalls.  Amanda was the sister of my great-grandmother Mary Reiter Long.  We know she is in the photo above by the fence post, but aren't sure which one she is.  One of Amanda's granddaughters found my blog and has given me more information on her family and hopefully a better photo!  Here is the photo of Amanda Reiter Ingalls and her daughter Gertrude Daisy Ingalls Richter taken in about 1920.

 
The Ingalls attended Bethlehem Baptist where one of their children, Rowena, is buried.  Click here for church records which include them.

But, five children did survive:L-R Dwight, Dorothy and Gertrude. Seated: Arley holding Walter.  Arley was also known as "Fritz" which is what his niece called him.  Click here for more photos and information about this beautiful family.

Margaret wrote that "Fritz" or Fredrick Arley Ingalls did go to West Point as did his son (James M. Ingalls) pictured above.  She also sent me a link with Jim's obituary written by his son.  Click here.  There is information about the whole family in that link. All of the information sent me to Ancestry.com where I found the death certificate for Fredrick Arley Ingalls who died at 38 years old of melanoma---the same disease that took my dear cousin Bob Delaney.




  While Margaret didn't know of anyone else who had melanoma, she did recall that her mother said it had started as a spot on his arm.  The death certificate says it started in a deep nerve.  Captain Fredrick Arley Ingalls was buried in the National Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco with his wife and son Jim Ingalls, Sr.

Amanda Reiter

June 1904 "Sister Amanda Ingalls called for letter from Bethlehem Church which was granted.  Also Ada Robinson called for letter which was granted.  The Clerk was ordered to write same.  Meeting then elected delegates to attend Jefferson County Baptist Association as follows:  Bro. James G. McCulloch, J.P. McKay and George W. Harrison. . ." Bro. E.J. Hemrick, Moderator; George W. Harrison, Church Clerk.

Amanda Reiter Ingalls is one of the women right above the fence post in the group photo.  She was also one of my great-grandmother's sisters.  I am not sure why they left Bethlehem Baptist Church where my great grandmother, one sister and two brothers and her parents are buried.  But, she did leave an infant daughter behind in Bethlehem Cemetery--Rowena.  For more information on the Ingalls' Family and photos of their children, click here. Amanda's granddaughter has since contacted me and sent this photo of Amanda and her daughter Gertrude from about the 1920's.  For the information Marge sent me, click here.

The Ingalls Family

William Barber Ingalls (2nd from the left on the ground) and Amanda Reiter (right above the fence post, I think) had 5 children: Fred Arley (b. 1898); Dorothy (b. 1900), Gertrude (b. 1902), Dwight (b. 1904) and Walter (b. 1911).

While at my sister's house, I found a box of photos. The only ones that were identified were these from the Ingall's family.
L-R Dwight, Dorothy and Gertrude. Seated: Arley holding Walter. The one below is Walter with his sisters.And then, this one of Dorothy and Walter Ingalls
I have photos of several of them in 1928 at a Long Family Reunion:
According to my records the blond in the middle is Walter Ingalls (17 years old?)
Dorothy is holding Arley's oldest son Robert (who later became a Pan-Am pilot) and Gertrude is beside her. In the 1930 census Dorothy was married to Joseph Blackwell (see below) where he worked in the shoe factory in St. Louis. Living with Dorothy and Joseph were her sister Gertrude and brother Walter. Dorothy Ingalls Blackwell and Gertrude Ingalls were Bookkeepers at the Shoe Factory and Walter wasn't working. Dwight was also married (Virginia Kennedy) and living in St. Louis where he was a floor manager for a Dry Goods store. He had a son (Dwight A. Ingalls) born in 1929 (the child above looks like he was born in 1926-27)Joseph Blackwell is the man on the left. The man on the right is Arley Ingalls whom my father talked frequently about. Below are his draft records for World War I.