Ruth Ingram

Ruth Ingram

• Father: John Charles Wesley Ingram b. 29 April 1829, d. 1 October 1902
• Mother: Mandana Artemisia Musick b. 1833, d. 20 January 1889

• Ruth Ingram was born on 20 September 1871 in Clear Lake, Lake County, California.
• John Charles Wesley Ingram and Mandana Artemisia Musick appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Big Valley Township, Lake County, California. Other members of the household included Ruth Ingram. Also in the household were children John L. (age 17), Mary R. (14), Sarah A. (11) and Maud (6), as well as widowed daughter-in-law Laura A. Lillie (age 24) and her son Arthur (4), and granddaughter Ethel Ingram (11 months).
• The following appeared in The History of Napa and Lake Counties, California (1881):
       INGRAM, J. C. W. Is a native of Gallatin County, Illinois, and was born April 4, 1829. Here he received his education, and resided on a farm until 1844, when he went to Missouri, where he spent about two years. The next two years were spent in Iowa and Wisconsin; after which he returned to Missouri, and in the spring of 1849 he turned his face towards Oregon, where he arrived, after a six months’ journey with ox teams, the last of October. Here he followed lumbering until the spring of 1851, when he came to California and followed mining at different places until September, 1857, when he came to Lake County and located in Big Valley, where he followed farming and stock raising until 1867, when he settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred acres, located in Scotts Valley, where he is engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Ingram, during the years 1858-9, held the office of Constable, and in the fall of 1873 was elected Sheriff of Lake County, which office he held four years. He married, August 28, 1858, Miss Mandana A. Musick, a native of Missouri They have six children: Luella C., John L, Mary R., Sarah A., Ruth and Maud. Have lost two: William R. and Preston.
• She married John Frederick Owen Nichols, son of Frederick Shafer Nichols and Sarah Elizabeth Neely, on 25 December 1887 in Kerr County, Tennessee. John Frederick's sister Sarah Alice later married Ruth's widowed father..
• John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Kerr County, Texas. Other members of the household included Emmet Harvey Nichols and Sarah Elizabeth Neely. Also in the household were children Everett E. (age 11), Wesley F. (7), John R. (5), Nettie A. (2) and William A. (1).
• John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Kerr County, Tennessee, at Goat Creek Road. Other members of the household included Emmet Harvey Nichols. Also in the household were children Everett (age 21), Wesley F. (17), John R. (14), Nettie A. (12), William A. (11), Mary B. (9), Melissa R. (5) and Lucy (1).
• John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Tennessee. Also in the household were children Ruth (age 15) and Lucie (10).
• John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Kerr County, Texas, at Goat Creek Road. Also in the household was daughter Lucy (age 20).
• The following appeared on 14 October 1937 in the Kerrville Mountain Sun: Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nichols are spending the month of October with Mr. Nichols' father on his ranch near Ingram.
• John Frederick Owen Nichols and Ruth Ingram appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Texas at Goat Creek Road.
• Ruth Ingram became a widow at the 12 November 1950 death of her husband John Frederick Owen Nichols.
• The following appeared on 9 October 1958 in the Kerrville Mountain Sun: Friends will learn with regret of the illness of Mrs. Ruth Nichols, who is a patient in the Peterson Memorial Hospital this week. Mrs. Nichols, who is 87, is the mother of E. H. Nichols.
• The following appeared on 28 September 1961 in the Kerrville Mountain Sun: Mrs. John Nichols, who observed her 90th birthday anniversary in her home on the Harper Road was given a surprise party by a group of intimate friends. Mrs. A. Meadows, assisted by Mrs. E. C. Pritchett, was the hostess.
       Guests included Mrs. J. W. Blair, Miss Daisy Jennings, Mrs. J. P. Lacey, Mrs. Lloyd Raiford, and Mrs. E. H. Nichols.
       She was again honored Sunday when her children attended a family dinner in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nichols. Presnet were Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Nichols and Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Richardson and daughter of San Antonio; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Holland, Rocksprings; Mrs. Nettie Schroeder, Kenedy; Mrs. Grace Mohn and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Nichols.
       Mrs. Nichols was born in Clear Lake, Cal., and came to Texas in 1881 with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. W. Ingram, and located at the present site of Ingram, which was named for the family.
• At the time of her death, her usual residence was in Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas, at 615 Harper Road.
• Ruth Ingram died on 12 October 1964 at age 93 in Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas, at Colonial Nursing Homw #1 . Informant was daughter Mrs. G. D. Richardson.
• She was interred at Nichols Cemetery, Ingram, Kerr County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 10 Apr 2017