Showing posts with label Ingalls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ingalls. Show all posts

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Finding cousins in a cemetery

This headstone marks the grave of my dad's younger brother, Alfred George Margheim, who died at age 9 in 1933 from pneumonia. He's buried in the Hygiene Colorado cemetery. I haven't visited the cemetery so I was really happy to see that Linda Fate had posted this picture on FindaGrave.com. By doing a Google search I found that the Boulder Genealogical Society has indexed the Hygiene Cemetery. As I browsed the listing of burials, I looked for any other names that are familiar in my RootsMagic database. 
I found the name of Myron Ingalls and I have Ingalls cousins (Laura Ingalls Wilder is my 7th cousin twice removed). 
Further research yielded the connection of Myron Ingalls to the Ingalls families in my database. From the information I gathered, I was able to draw up this chart: 
It reveals that the Myron Ingalls who is buried in the same cemetery as my uncle is my 8th cousin 3 times removed. I love it when searches come together like this. I have not visited the Hygiene Cemetery and had no idea that any of my cousins were buried there. 
My dad and his parents lived in Colorado 1931-1933 and returned to Kansas after Alfred's death to live out their lives. 
Back row left to right: John and Molly Margheim
Front row left to right: Ernest and Alfred Margheim

Saturday, July 9, 2011

My Cousins, the Ingalls

While doing some research for another post, I came upon this information about John James Ingalls: 

John James Ingalls

John James Ingalls

Politician, attorney. Born: 29 December 1833, Middleton, Massachusetts.  Married: Anna Louisa Cheeseborough, 1865.  Died: 16 August 1900, New Mexico.

"Kansas," said John J. Ingalls, "is the core and kernel of the country, containing the germs of its growth and the quickening ideas essential to its perpetuity." An orator, scholar, lawyer, and statesman, known for his keen sarcasm and quick wit, Ingalls was, at age 26, a primary force behind the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention that brought about Kansas statehood. Ingalls, who represented Kansas as a U.S. Senator from 1873 - 1891, coined the phrase Ad astra per aspera (to the stars through difficulties) that became the Kansas state motto.
Kansas State Seal with Motto "Ad Astra Per Aspera" ("To the stars through difficulties").

Since I was born and lived the first 40 years of my life in Kansas, this is significant to me. I prepared this chart to show my relationship with John Ingalls and his/my cousin Laura (Ingalls) Wilder.