Henry Clay Ingram & Elizabeth "Bettie" Green Family

 Submitted by: Faye Ingram Wendeburg, daughter of Charles Henry Ingram and Jessie Sharp


Henry Clay Ingram, son of William H. Ingram and Martha Ware of Jones County, Georgia,  married Elizabeth "Bettie" Green, the daughter of John Green and Julia M. Dillard, of Forsyth, GA,  in 1880, and moved to Grapeland, Texas with John Calvin Green, (Bettie's brother-in-law) in 1880. 

They settled just east of Grapeland, Houston Co., TX, where the Sunset Church is now located. 

Henry Clay Ingram stay 10 or so years, then moved back to Forsyth GA, but in 1902 returned to Grapeland and bought 197 acres on the Augusta road, about 6 miles east of Grapeland, and raised his Family there.

Children of Henry & Bettie Ingram were:

1.  Mattie M. Ingram was born 1881, Houston Co., TX.  She  married  Charlie Hamm of GA in 1898 and raised her family of 7 children in GA.   

2.  William S. Ingram was born and died in 1883.   

3.  Edgar Eugene Ingram was born in 1884 and died in 1916.  He married Minnie Adell Neel  in 1909 and had 3 children.

4.  Mary Addie Ingram was born 1887 died 1916.  She married  Paul Edward Weisinger in 1903 and they had 6 children. 

5.  Annie Ingram was born 1889, died1929.  She married Paul Edward Weisinger, in 1917.  He was born 1882, died 1972.  They had 6 children.  

6.  Walter Clay Ingram was born1892, died 1981.  He married Sally Belle Neel in 1910.  She was born in 1893, died1982 in Houston Co., TX.   

7.  Charles Henry Ingram was born in 1894  in Jones Co. GA.  He died 1974 in Houston Co., TX.  He married Jessie Lenore Sharp in 1913.  She was the daughter of John Edward Sharp and Alice Victoria Allen.  They had 4 children.

(John Edward Sharp was the son of H. E. Sharp and Mary  Malissa Goolsby, daughter of John A. Goolsby b. abt 1802 in GA., died bef. 1860 Houston Co., TX and Rebecca Ellis Thompson, b. abt. 1808, d. bef. 1870 in Houston Co., TX.  They had 10 children.)

8.  Lizzie Eller Ingram was born 1896 in Forsyth, GA.,  died1933 in Houston Co., TX.  She married  George William Moseley in 1916.  He was born  in 1889 and died in 1968.  He was the son of Robert Moseley and Tennie Bates of Houston Co., TX.  They had 6 children

 

 

Henry Clay Ingram was a Primitive Baptist preacher as was Paul Edward Weisinger, and some of the Moseleys. 

Henry Clay's land surrounded the Refuge Cemetery then 1 acre large, the Ingram's contributed more land over the years to the cemetery.

Walter Ingram had a sawmill, grist mill and H. C. had a syrup mill.

 

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