BENJAMIN married WILSON MARY AGNES. MARY (daughter of WILSON MICHAEL K. and FOURDE KATE A.) was born on 29 Jun 1856; died on 28 Feb 1920 in Age 63. [Group Sheet]

1. INGELS KATE AMANDA was born on 14 Jan 1884.
2. INGELS CLARA BELLE was born on 27 Feb 1887.
3. INGELS BENJAMIN C. was born on 18 Mar 1889.
4. INGELS LESLIE BOONE was born on 27 Jan 1891; died on 15 May 1938 in Age 47.
5. INGELS MARGARET was born on 25 Oct 1892.
6. INGELS GRACE was born on 4 Feb 1895; died on 28 Feb 1895.

Notes:

JAMES W. INGELS, retired; P. O. Paris. In the year 1782, James Ingels, the grandfather of the James W., left Pennsylvania, and, with his family bent his steps toward Kentucky, the country, then, as the reader can well imagine, was anything but promising or inviting, but the wayfaring man was seeking a home for himself and family, and was prepared to meet hardships, in passing through Maysville, having no gun, he contracted with a gunsmith there to make him one and take his pay in bacon when it could be procured; Mr. Ingels came on with his family, locating at Grant's Station, near Bryant's Station, Mr. Ingels finally raised the necessary amount of bacon and sent a hired boy with it to Maysville to make the exchange; strange to say, the boy, horse and cart, bacon and gun were never heard from until several years later, when Mr. Ingels received a letter from the boy, then a grown-up man, saying that he had wandered off into Ohio instead of going to Maysville, had bought him a home and was doing well, and if he (Mr. Ingels) would come there he would pay him for his bacon, horse and cart, etc., Mr. Ingels never went. The old pioneer died on the place he settled in 1803, he had five sons and four daughters born to him, Joseph the oldest, married Mrs. Bryant, a niece of Daniel Boone; James settled on the homestead; Thomas and John settled in Indiana; Edith married Welson Hunt, and located in Missouri; Nellie became the wife of Mr. Victor, and settled in Nicholas County; Boone Ingels, the father of our subject, was born at Grant's Station, 1781, and raised a farmer until seventeen, when his father died, in 1808 he came to Paris, where he carried on the hatter's trade until his death in 1837, when 53 years of age, he raised a family of nine children, eight sons and one daughter. Our subject was raised to the business his father prosecuted, after going for him to St. Louis to buy furs, in 1832 he went to Jacksonville, Ills., where he spent two years in business with Forsythe & Butler, he returned in 1834; the year following he married Amanda Crose, a native of this county, daughter of Levi Crose. Mrs. Ingels died 1855, having borne him nine children; Benjamin, Wilson, Boone, Ella, Belle and George were the number raised. In 1857, Mr. Ingels married Mary Davis, a native of this place, daughter of George and Mary (McClintock) Davis, both natives of Virginia; he born 1791, she, two years later. Mr. and Mrs. Ingels have one daughter, Lizzie. Mr. Ingels has been a successful man in business; he owned 4,000 acres of land at one time, which he sold at a large advance; for twenty-five years he had charge of the paupers in this county. Mr. Ingels has been retired from business several years, and is living in retirement, and enjoying the fruits of his labor in quiet and happiness; has been a member of the Christian Church over forty years.
http://www.shawhan.com/families/ingelsJ.rtf; History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, pp. 472-473.

JAMES married CROSE AMANDA in 1835. AMANDA (daughter of CROSE LEVI) was born on 15 Jul 1815; died on 31 Mar 1855 in Age of 39. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Boone Ingels' Bible, James W. Ingels' Bible gives date as 1785--Perrin (History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, p. 492) gives date as 1784.

Arrived in Paris, Kentucky, 1808 per http://www.shawhan.com/families/ingelsj.rtf.

BOONE married REID ELIZABETH on 3 Nov 1808 in Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.. ELIZABETH was born on 1 Aug 1791; died on 1 Sep 1868 in Age of 77.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth date was given by Jim and Ann as March 12, 1749.
James Ingels settled in Kentucky in 1782.

Notes on James Ingels, Jr. from http://www.shawhan.com/families/ingelsj.rtf

James Ingels, Sr. received a Patent Grant of 220 acres of land September 13, 1754 from the proprietors of Pennsylvania. On April 2, 1770, James Ingels, Sr. deeded to James Ingels, Jr. of Coventry and Union Townships, Berke and Chester Counties, Pa. 200 acres of land along the Skulkill, a large part of the same land of the Patent Grant of 1754, In the deed James Ingels, Jr. assumed certain obligations to his mother, Ruth Harmer Ingels, to his sister, Ruth, and to his brother, John, when John became of age. ("Ingels Family" by Kate Ingels Peak and Margaret Ingels, 1945. This 22 page pamphlet was copied from the INGLES drawer, John Fox, Jr., Library, Paris, Kentucky, June 2000, by Robert E. Francis.)

James served as a private second class in Captain Lambert Wilmore's Company of the Fourth Battalion, Philadelphia Militia (Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Vol. 1, p. 293).

James Ingels, Jr. and family left Pennsylvania in 1782 and there is a story that enroute to Kentucky James Ingels contracted with a gunsmith in Maysville, Kentucky to make him a gun and take his pay in bacon when it could be procured. The pioneer went on with his family, locating at Grant's Station near Bryant' Station. He finally raised the necessary bacon and sent a hired boy with it to Maysville to make the exchange. Several years later he had a letter from the one he had entrusted with this mission in which he learned that the hired boy, instead of going to Maysville, had wandered into Ohio, had bought a home, and was doing well. The former hired boy offered to pay the Kentucky pioneer for his bacon, horse and cart if he could go to Ohio but he never went. James Ingels, Jr. built a rock house at Grant's Station for his home. (Refer to History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, p. 492).

JAMES married BOONE CATHERINE on 23 Aug 1777 in Amity Township, Berks county, Pennsylvania. CATHERINE (daughter of BOONE JOSEPH, JR and WARREN ELIZABETH) was born in 1752 in Berks County, Pennsylvania; died in 1804. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://www.shawhan.com/families/ingelsj.rtf gives her year of birth as 1751.