--PART.BOUNDARY.eml01.66c3.3638d4ca.0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Dear Jim INGRAM, Some additional comments: Decatur GA is the county seat of DeKalb Co, just east of Atlanta ( county seat of Fulton Co), in North Georgia, whereas Decatur Co GA is in the extreme southwest corner of GA along the boundary with FL; it's county seat is Bainbridge. Burke (county seat Waynesboro) and Screven Cos GA (county seat today is Sylvania, but was the now dead town of Jacksonboro when Zoeth was there) are in Southeast GA, south of Augusta (county seat of Richmond Co GA). With many places in GA the pairing is confusing: Screven GA is not in Screven Co GA, Washington GA is not in Washington Co GA, Lumpkin is not in Lumpkin Co GA , etc. In records from the last century, the name order did not seem to be significant (the name order may have indeed been significant to and consistent for the individual, but not in his/her records)-- I have records of many individuals where the order is reversed. The use of initials was even more confusing -- the initials for Adelia/Delia Frances might variously be "F. A." or "D. F.," for Ester/Hester "E." or "H.," and "H.K." for Hezekiah. Further, misreading of script by abstracters as well as we researchers leads to "Lion" or "Leon" for Sion, and "Luckey" for Suckey (nickname for Susannah). I also suspect that the illiterate person's use of a single initial of his first or last name as his "mark" (versus just an "X") leads to ascribing a middle initial where there is none (perhaps for James J. SCOTT Jr where the scribe wrote James SCOTT Jr and Mr. SCOTT himself made his mark "J" in the center). And, of course, variations in the spelling of surnames do not often sort out one group of families from another (INGRAM/INGRAHAM, CONNER/CONNOR, MIKELL/MCCALL, AMBROSE/AMBERS, PAVEY/PEAVEY/PEAVY/PEVY/PEVEY/PEVEE, etc.) -- due to record keepers, one unrelated family may eventually adopt the spelling of another family in the same area. The INGRAMs/INGRAHAMs who came from SC to Screven Co GA may not be related to yours in Decatur Co GA. I included the Screven Co GA INGRAM family of 1852-1897 just in case there might be such a relationship (but see the census records below). I know that, in addition to the family of Zoeth SPOONER, at least two other families (MOCKs, and John RAWLS and some of his children, some already married), and there are likely more, also moved from Screven Co GA to Decatur Co GA prior to 1850. The INGRAM family cemetery in Screven Co GA is in private (LEE) property in a field off GA Route 17, down a dirt road that is two miles south of Rocky Ford GA. The plots include just three headstones but twenty one unidentified wooden markers (and perhaps includes some WALLACEs). Some of the SPOONER data is from Decatur County Georgia Past and Present 1823-1991, published by the Decatur County Historical Society in 1991. Because Decatur Co GA is well out of my BES (Bulloch-Effingham-Screven) area of research, I looked at on-line resources for Decatur Co GA (the genweb site), which includes the Muster Roll of Company B of the 8th Florida Infantry Regiment (Young Guards) includes H.H. INGRAM (wounded at Sharpsburg and left on field), J.H. INGRAM (wounded at Sharpsburg) [could this be your Jackson Henry Jr?] and W. J. INGRAM, all three having been mustered in on 10 May 1862. This muster roll was published in Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, pages 191-193 (I do not have access to that reference). Further, Benjamin P. INGRAM was included in the Muster Roll of Company A of the 59th Regiment of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Anderson's Brigade, Hood's Division, Longstreet's Corps. Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A., Decatur County GA ). This latter muster roll is found in Lillian HENDERSON's Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865 Volume VI pp 3-14. That Decatur Co GA {formed 1823 from Early Co GA} genweb site ( http://www.rootsweb.com/~gadecatu/) also included the following 1850 Census data (in 1850, Decatur Co GA included land that is today portions of Grady {1905} and Seminole {1920} Cos GA) for neighboring, and likely related, INGRAHAMs at households 91, 92 & 93: Decatur District 22/REEL 432-67/p 37A ===================================================================== LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX OCCUP VAL. BIRTHPLACE SCH R/W ===================================================================== 13 91 91 Ingraham N. 46 M Farmer 1,500 GA 14 91 91 Ingraham Martha 33 F GA 15 91 91 Bryant Martha 26 F GA 16 91 91 Ingraham Jackson 12 M GA X 17 91 91 Ingraham Jane 11 F GA X 18 91 91 Ingraham Nash 10 M GA X 19 91 91 Ingraham James 9 M GA X 20 91 91 Ingraham Daniel 7 M GA 21 91 91 Ingraham Martha 5 F GA 22 91 91 Ingraham Nancy 3 F GA 23 92 92 Ingraham J. 43 M Farmer 1,200 GA 24 92 92 Ingraham Rebecca 30 F GA 25 92 92 Ingraham John 4 M GA 26 92 92 Ingraham James 2 M GA 27 92 92 Ingraham Martha 8/12 F GA 28 93 93 Ingraham Wm. 52 M Farmer 2,000 GA 29 93 93 Ingraham Martha 42 F GA X 30 93 93 Ingraham Hamilton 20 M Laborer GA X 31 93 93 Ingraham Joseph 19 M Laborer GA X 32 93 93 Ingraham Raiford 16 M Laborer GA 33 93 93 Ingraham John 14 M GA 34 93 93 Ingraham David 12 M GA 35 93 93 Ingraham William 10 M GA 36 93 93 Ingraham Charles 8 M GA 37 93 93 Ingraham Daniel 6 M GA 38 93 93 Ingraham Nancy 1 F GA and, living alone at household 797: Decatur District 22/REEL 432-67/p 80B ===================================================================== LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX OCCUP VAL. BIRTHPLACE SCH R/W ===================================================================== 27797797 Ingraham John 53 M Farmer 2,000 GA [next household is headed by D. BRYANT age 64] Incidentally, Zoeth SPOONER's family is at households 64 and 97 ("M." misread "Z." or misrecorded?, should be b MA not b GA): Decatur District 22/REEL 432-67/pp 35B & 37B ===================================================================== LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX OCCUP VAL. BIRTHPLACE SCH R/W ===================================================================== 1 64 64 Spooner M. 90 M Farmer GA 2 64 64 Spooner Nancy 50 F GA 3 64 64 Spooner Debby 30 F GA 4 64 64 Spooner Caleb 21 M Laborer GA 5 64 64 Spooner Nancy 19 F GA 6 64 64 Spooner Martha 16 F GA 7 64 64 Spooner Mary 12 F GA 8 64 64 Spooner John 12 M GA 10 97 97 Spooner A. 45 M Farmer 1,000 GA 11 97 97 Spooner Benjamin 20 M Laborer GA 12 97 97 Spooner Evaline 18 F GA 13 97 97 Spooner Marion 16 M Laborer GA 14 97 97 Spooner Amanda 14 F GA 15 97 97 Spooner Sarah 12 F GA 16 97 97 Spooner Catharine 10 F GA 17 97 97 Spooner Andrew 8 M GA 18 97 97 Spooner Martha 6 F GA 19 97 97 Spooner Reubin 4 M GA 20 97 97 Spooner Harriet 2 F GA Have you looked at the Early Co GA Census data for 1820 or the Decatur Co GA Census data for 1830 or 1840 to establish when the INGRAHAMs arrived in the area? If you have the opportunity, please furnish the 1850 data (if anything is different from the above), as well as the 1860 and 1870 census data to which you referred. As I mentioned in the original correspondence, I would like to establish an approximate b date for Rebecca SPOONER INGRAHAM/INGRAM (b c 1820?). Her husband, Jackson Henry INGRAHAM b c 1807, and the other Decatur Co GA heads of household, John INGRAHAM b c 1797, William INGRAHAM b c 1798, and N. INGRAHAM b c 1804, are near in age to John M. INGRAM 10 Apr 1813 SC (parents b SC) d 2 May 1897 Screven Co GA, but the 1850 data says that all four were b GA -- do you have other data that gives their b place or that of their parents (1880 census shows that)? May God Bless You and Your Family, Bob PEAVY Rincon GA ________________________________ From: JIngram741@aol.com on 10/29/98 Subject: Re: SPOONER INGRAM Screven & Decatur Cos GA --PART.BOUNDARY.eml01.66c3.3638d4ca.0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ATT00002.TXT" Thanks for the info...the info I have is rather confusing to say the least. We never knew my ggrandfather nor did my father and his brothers not even his name but I have traced him back to Ga. and was told he was from Northern Ga. but I found census records that indicate he may have been in Decatur, Ga. We were told that gggrandfather name was Henry Jackson Ingram but the 1850/1860 and 1870 show a Jackson Henry Ingraham living in Decatur, Ga. but the index shows it as INGRAM NOT INGRAHAM. The children living with him are by the same names and about the age those found in our family. Now in 1850 records indicate him being 43 years old and a REBECCA living in the same household. 1860 records do not show her in the household but I located the marriage record as you indicated of the marriage and that is about the extent of what I have found on either of them.. We were told gggrandfather had 3 sons all named after presidents.. JOHN WASHINGTON INGRAM but I found nothing but the census records on him. The other two moved to AR sometime after 1870 and died in Bradley Co. AR. where I have found records on them. There seems to have been one daughter which we never heard of named Martha J. Nothing on her. I found a letter in possession of one of my grandfather's half sisters from a TULULA SPOONER to her Aunt in AR (unknown who her aunt is) but she talks about her cousins CHLOE AND ALETHA. These are my grandfathers sisters. I have been told by one researcher that Jackson Henry spent some time in jail or prison during or just after CW unknown for what but we did find a request for restoration of his rights, again nothing from there. Now that I have bored you with my details this is all I can tell you but if you have any other info that would fit or happen to know where Jackson Sr. or Rebecca might be buried would appreciate knowing.. I did see the note in your mail about the family cemetery. Where is this located? Again many thanks for the info.. It is a lot more than I have been able to find so far and may really help...THANKS --PART.BOUNDARY.eml01.66c3.3638d4ca.0001--