BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - SOUTH ANCESTORS INGHRAM (Also recorded as INGRAM) The INGHRAMS of Greene County descended from 6G Grandparents 496-Lord Arthur INGHRAM and 497-Isabelle MACHEL of England. There is an even chance that Isaac INGHRAM of Surry, England who accompanied William PENN on the ship "Welcome" in 1681 belonged to the same family line. Records show 122-William INGHRAM, Sr. (my 4G Grandfather), the patriarch of the Washington County Inghrams, living in Potomac Hundred, Prince Georges County, Maryland as early as 1733. He married (wife’s name unknown) and raised his family there. They had at least six children, William, Jr., 62-Arthur (who married 63-Olive SMITH), Mollie, Nancy, 61-Hannah (who married 60-Thomas Rinehart, Jr), and Elizabeth. It appears that the youngest son, 62-Arthur, was the first to come to what is now southwestern Pennsylvania, in 1774. His father, and other members of the family, moved to the area soon afterward. Some of the children married in Maryland before moving to Pennsylvania. 122-William Sr. first built a cabin on land situated on Laurel Creek. Some time later he sought protection from the Indians by moving to the vicinity of Jacob VANMETER’S Fort (Carmichaels) where he probably lived until his death. Later his oldest son, William Jr., moved into his father’s vacant cabin on Laurel Creek where he was living in 1782 while a member of Captain James ARCHER’S Company of the Washington County Militia. No record has been found of when William, Sr. or his wife died, or where they are buried. 62-Arthur INGHRAM (my 3G Grandfather) was born in Maryland in 1746. He moved from Maryland to Southwestern Pennsylvania in 1774, probably in the same group that included Ralph and Thomas SMITH, brothers of 63-Olive SMITH who he would later marry. He served in Captain James ARCHER’S Militia Company and took an active part in the protection of the frontier during the Revolution. He and Thomas SMITH moved into a cabin on the INGHRAM farm and local history indicates that he, Thomas SMITH and two others started farming on Smith Creek in the spring of 1776. There is also evidence that he made a trip to Kentucky in 1776 where he selected a 1000 acre tract of land at the mouth of Fox Run and made improvements on it. This land was later assigned to a John HUGHES. While 62-Arthur INGHRAM never lived in Kentucky permanently he continued to own land in that state and was being taxed as a land owner in Fayette County, Kentucky as late as 1789. About 1777 62-Arthur married 63-Olive SMITH. They had nine children, William (who married Elizabeth RINEHART, daughter of Barnet RINEHART), 31-Margaret (who became the wife of 30-John Rinehart), Olive, Nancy, Arthur, Thomas, Delilah, Cassa and Elizabeth. 62-Arthur died in 1834 at age 88 and 63-Olive in 1839 at age 85. Both are buried in the Inghram Cemetery on the Thomas MONTGOMERY Farm, Greene County, PA. |