DARIUS INGALLS, leaving his native New York state in 1824, reached Jacksonville, Illinois, when there was only
one log house there. He brought his family with him into these western wilds, following the route blazed by Saymour
and Elisha Kellogg and their families, who were the first white settlers in what is now Morgan county. At Jacksonville,
Ingalls built a log cabin and here his family began life on the frontier.
Here in the west, the families of Ingalls and Elledge met and became friends. Their children intermarried and founded
another distinguished Boone line here in the great valley. James H. Ingalls married Elizabeth J. Elledge, a daughter
of Francis and Charity (Boone) Elledge's son Benjamin, in Pike county, in 1841; William Mortimer Ingalls, a son
of Darius, married Rebecca Jane Elledge, daughter of Francis and Charity's son William, in Pike county, in 1843;
Mary Jane Ingalls, a daughter of Darius, married James Alexander Elledge, son of Francis and Charity's son William,
in Pike county in 1846. The many Pike county descendants of these marriages are all in direct line from Charity
Boone, the eldest daughter of Edward and Martha (Bryan) Boone, who married Francis Elledge in North Carolina in
1778.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Elledge, who married James H. Ingalls, was a first cousin of Rebecca Jane and James Alexander
Elledge (children of William Elledge and Tabitha Beall), who married a son and daughter of Darius Ingalls. Thus
it will be seen that the families of Ingalls and Elledge are very much inter-related and that all are direct descendants
of the noted Boone family, the Ingalls family constituting another of the long-lost Boone lines.
William Mortimer Ingalls, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Darius Ingalls, was born in New York state May 28, 1819. He came
with his parents to the Sangamo country at the age of five, arriving where Jacksonville now is in 1824. In Old
Morgan, he obtained what little education was available in the subscription schools of the period. Among his teachers
was Mrs. Nancy Heath, first white child born on the site of Cincinnati, Ohio, and first teacher in Pittsfield's
first log cabin school on the south side of the square in the winter of 1834.
At the age of 24, William M. Ingalls married Rebecca Jane Elledge and they began domestic life in Perry township,
Pike county, where Mr. Ingalls purchased 80 acres of land from his father. Eventually he sold that property and
became the owner of 140 acres which he cultivated and improved until 1864, when he sold out and removed to Iowa.
Later, he returned to Perry township and invested in a farm which continued to be his residence until 1885, when
he sold his farm property and removed to the town of Perry, where Boone Scholl had laid out the town of Booneville
in 1833. There he spent his remaining days, passing away on March 26, 1892. His wife, Rebecca Elledge, had died
December 28, 1883; both are buried in the McCord cemetery at Perry.
William M. Ingalls and Rebecca Elledge were the parents of five sons and five daughters, namely: Emma, Achsah V.,
Priscilla J., Darius W., James Edward, Margaret Helen, Charles M., Nettie B., Wilson Arthur and Walter Chester.
The only ones now living are Charles M. and Walter C. of Perry, the former 85, the latter in his 70th year.
Charles M. Ingalls, son of William M. and Rebecca (Elledge) Ingalls, was born in Perry township, December 20, 1851;
he was educated in the Dexter school, near his father's home. At the age of 23 he started farming on his own account,
continuing three years, when he opened a meat market in Perry, conducting this business for two years. He then
again took up farming in Perry township, continuing until 1883, in the fall of which year he went to Hall county,
Nebraska, where he purchased 80 acres of wild prairie.
Not a furrow had been turned or an improvement started on this wild land, which he put into cultivation and continued
to improve until the fall of 1890. In the autumn of 1884 he sold out and bought another wild quarter section in
the same county, on which, in the fall of 1891 he built a house, which he occupied until the autumn of 1895. He
then "let out" his land in Nebraska and returned to Perry, living in the town for a year, when he again
resumed farming, continuing four years. Selling out in Nebraska in 1900, he once more took up his abode in Perry
but in June of the same year bought a farm in new Salem township where he continued his agricultural pursuits for
a number of years, producing, along with other livestock, some very fine Cotswold sheep.
On February 13, 1879, Mr. Ingalls was married to Miss Anna Rebecca Parks, born May 8, 1853 in New Salem township,
a daughter of Jesse and Mary Jane (Cochran) Parks. They had these children: Walter R., born March 9, 1880, married
Nellie Herbster and located in Mt. Sterling. He died at Beardstown, and his widow is still living, in Tennessee.
Daisy L., born October 13, 1882, married Frank J. Stoner at Baylis, May 26, 1903. He was a son of Joseph Stoner
and Mary E. Lutz of Perry. The Stoners reside in Perry, her 85-year-old father residing with them. They are parents
of one daughter, Mary, wife of Carl Liehr, residing north of Perry.
Nina C., born April 18, 1883, died September 2, 1900.
Mary Ethel, born June 26, 1886, married Frederick Webber Hill of Baylis, son of Fred Hill and Lizzie Grammar, August
4, 1904, with H. F. Cusic, M. G., saying the ceremony, and David and Alta L. Ellis witnessing. The Hills located
in Missouri, west of Quincy, Illinois.
Anna R. Parks Ingalls, wife of Charles M., died June 21, 1928, at the age of 75. Her parents, Jesse and Mary (Cochran)
Parks, were both natives of Belmont, Ohio.
Darius William Ingalls, another son of William Mortimer Ingalls and Rebecca Jane Elledge, and a grandson of Darius
Ingalls, the early settler at Jacksonville, was born in Griggsville township October 26, 1846. At the age of 19
he set out to earn his own way by working as a farm hand. When he had accumulated a little capital he invested
in forty acres of land in Fairmount township, living thereon for four and one half years from 1875. Selling his
Fairmount holding, he then removed to Perry township, where he continued farming.
On April 22, 1868, Darius Ingalls married Tabitha Ellen Barlow, born in Fulton county, Illinois, December 26, 1849,
a daughter of Franklin and Elizabeth (Walker) Barlow, who were born, reared and married in Kentucky and spent their
last days in Pike county, having come to Fulton county (a part of early Pike county) when Illinois was still a
pioneer state.
To Mr. and Mrs. Darius Ingalls were born seven children, three of whom, Edward, Charles and Walter, died in infancy.
Other children were Lillian O., Royal Herschel, Clyde B. and Bernice.
Lillian O. Ingalls married Melvin H. Browning of Perry, son of William M. Browning and Mary C. Dorsey, September
27, 1891. They had two children, Everett Browning of Rantoul, Illinois, and Ethel Gertrude Browning, who married
Clarence Hudelson of Chambersburg, December 24, 1917. Lillian Ingalls Browning died September 5, 1917, aged 48,
and is buried in Dorsey cemetery. Clarence Hudelson, who married her daughter Ethel, is dead and his widow now
resides in Perry. She has three children, Clair Evelyn, Clarence Everett and Lillian Lee.
Royal Herschel Ingalls married Grace Baldwin, a daughter of Frank and Mary (Gerard) Baldwin; they reside in Hannibal,
Missouri. They became the parents of Ellen, Clay, Robert, Grace Velma, Paul Richard, Dorothy, Frances and Margaret
Ingalls. Ellen married Wesley Hammock and they live at Hannibal; they have three children living and one dead.
Clay married Cleo Roads and has four children living and one dead; he died seven years ago; his widow and the children
reside at Hannibal. Robert died a number of years ago, unmarried. Paul, married, lives in Hannibal. Dorothy married
Louis Hamilton and also is a resident of Hannibal. Frances, born in Pike county May 19, 1905, died in infancy.
Dr. Clyde B. Ingalls, a former mayor of Pittsfield (elected 1926), married Mary Ellen Harrington of Griggsville,
August 24, 1910. She was a daughter of George P. Harrington and Mary Ann Clegg, George P. being a brother of Samuel
Harrington who married Charity Elledge (sister of James Alexander and Rebecca Jane Elledge who married Jane and
William Mortimer Ingalls). Dr. and Mrs. Ingalls were parents of a daughter, Lillian, born May 23, 1915, who is
now at Champaign, with her mother. Dr. Ingalls, while practicing osteopathy in Pittsfield, died in Laughlin Hospital
of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, November 3, 1930. He is buried at Pittsfield in the West cemetery.
Bernice Ingalls married Cyrus Hammitt of Perry, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Calhoun) Hammitt, May 5, 1913. Mr.
Hammitt was a native of the Baylis neighborhood. The wedding was at Perry. They are parents of the following children:
Virginia, Paul, Darius, Edwin, Robert Lee, Betty Lou and Wayne, the latter, the youngest, six years old. The family
resides near Pittsfield, having recently moved from the Windmiller farm to the Lewis farm near the West cemetery.
They formerly resided on Griggsville Route 1, in Perry township, on lands of the Rush estate.
Darius W. Ingalls was prominent in Perry affairs. He died at Perry March 7, 1909, at the age of 64. He was grand
president of the Pike County Mutual Life Insurance Association at the time of his death, having been instrumental
in the society's organization. He was also identified with the K. P. and I. O. O. F. lodges at Perry and was a
member of the Perry school board when he died. He is buried in Wilson cemetery at Perry. His widow, Tabitha Ellen
(Barlow) Ingalls, still resides in Perry, at the age of 87.
Priscille J. Ingalls, daughter of William M. and sister of Darius W., married as her first husband William W. Clayton,
May 24, 1863. They had two children, now living, one of whom, Mrs. Jennie (Clanton) Mayfield, resides at Shelton,
Nebraska, the other, Charles Clanton, being a resident of Ottawa, Kansas. Priscilla's second husband was Dan Grass
of Schuyler county, Illinois. They moved to Nebraska and both died near Wood River in that state.
James Edward Ingalls, brother of Priscilla, married Annette Powers of Perry, March 13, 1879, she a daughter of
James Powers and Nancy Dorsey. They had three sons who died young. Clarence Ingalls, born in 1882, died November
18, the same year, aged one month and 19 days. Guy Ingalls died April 13, 1883 at the age of three. The next child,
Louis, was born in December, 1879. Mrs. Annette Ingalls, later, February 8, 1898, married William Glines, son of
A. P. and Ida (Read) Glines of Perry. James Edward Ingalls died at Perry July 28, 1935, aged 87, and is buried
in McCord cemetery.
Margaret Helen Ingall married Samuel Hill Gray of New Salem, January 1, 1874, J. K. Cleveland, a Perry justice
of the peace, officiating. They moved to Cameron, Illinois, and both died there. Their children included Harry
Gray of Monmouth, Mrs. Nettie French of Cameron, Clifford Gray of Galesburg, and Harvey, Leo and Floyd Gray of
Cameron.
Nettie Belle Ingalls married William Townley of Perry, a son of Richard Townley and Alice Hornby, June 23, 1891.
Mr. Townley was a shoemaker and was of English birth. They had three children, Arthur Townley of Beardstown, Mrs.
Hugh (Ruth) Kerr of New Salem, and Mrs. Alice Grant, who is now in California. Mr. and Mrs. Townley both died at
Perry, he on April 2, 1922, aged 65, and she on July 26, 1924, aged 62. They are buried in Wilson cemetery at Perry.
Wilson Arthur Ingalls married Emma Akin, daughter of James Akin, March 4, 1885. She died January 21, 1889, at 23,
and is buried at Perry. They had a daughter, Myrtle, who died October 26, 1912, aged 25, and is buried at Perry.
Mr. Ingalls married as his second wife Lena Wagner of Perry, daughter of Leonard and Caroline (Sheer) Wagner, September
24, 1893. She died November 17, 1902, at the age of 29, and is buried in Wilson cemetery at Perry. Mr. Ingalls'
last wife was Nanette Allsup of Riverton, Illinois, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, and a daughter of Temple
R. and Elizabeth (Brown) Allsup. They were married at Pittsfield July 21, 1908. Mr. Ingalls, engaged in railroading,
spent his latter life at Springfield near which place he died and is buried.
Walter C. Ingalls, youngest of the children of William Mortimer Ingalls and Rebecca Elledge, lives opposite the
old grout brewery, west of Perry. He was born August 23, 1867, being now in his 70th year. On January 29, 1892,
he married Mrs. Anna (Dorsey) Gregory and they had one daughter, Nola, who married Percy Smith and is the mother
of one son, Gordon W. Smith. The Smiths live in Perry township, on Griggsville Route 1. Mrs. Ingalls died February
2, 1907. Mr. Ingalls now lives alone in his home west of Perry.
Emma V. Ingalls married George F. Powell, in Pike county, September 9, 1874. She died many years ago.
Mary Jane Ingalls, a daughter of Darius Ingalls of early Jacksonville and an aunt of Charles M. and Walter C. Ingalls
of Perry, married James Alexander Elledge, in Pike county, September 3, 1846, She was a sister of William Mortimer
Ingalls, who married Alexander Elledge's sister, Rebecca Jane. James Alexander Elledge is remembered by the oldest
settlers at Perry as "Aleck" Elledge.
Alexander Elledge was for a long time engaged in business in Perry, in Pike county, being associated, at least
part of the time, with his brother Leonard Boone, who married the descendant of Governor Carlin. The Elledges,
under the firm name of Elledge & Co., succeeded Parmalee & Co., at Perry as manufacturers of plows, harrows,
cultivators, etc. Elledge & Co., in 1859, advertised in Charles J. Sellon's newspaper, "The Radical,"
published in Pittsfield, that in addition to plows, harrows, cultivators and horse rakes, which they kept constantly
on hand, they were prepared to do wool carding, "on short notice, in good style and at fair prices."
Charles M. Ingalls of Perry, 85, a son of Aleck and Leonard Boone Elledge's sister Rebecca, says that Alexander
Elledge worked in a plow factory at Perry, where the telephone central now is. Frank M. Morrison of Perry, 91,
says that the first two-row cultivator and the first two-row cornplanter used in Pike county were manufactured
in this early Perry factory.
James Alexander and Leonard Boone Elledge spent their last days at Lathrop, Mo., and are buried there.
James H. Ingalls, who married Benjamin Elledge's daughter Elizabeth (Betsy), became the father of two sons, Henry
and William E. Ingalls. William E. married Addie Ireland, September 10, 1871, and they had a son, Harry Ingalls.
Mrs. James H. Ingalls afterwards married Augustus Wise, she, by this second marriage, having a daughter, now Mrs.
Delia Grassley of Chicago, who in turn has two daughters, Delia and Nellie Grassley, deans in the Chicago Conservatory
of Music. Augustus Wise died in 1898 and his widow (daughter of Benjamin and Catherine Reynolds Elledge) died at
Griggsville July 12, 1902. She was a first cousin of James Alexander and Rebecca Jane Elledge, who married Jane
and William Mortimer Ingalls.