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Ancestors of Priscilla Anne Ingersoll

Generation No. 4

       8. George Lyman Ingersoll, born February 13, 1830 in Buffalo, New York; died July 28, 1910 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the son of 16. Alvan Hyde Ingersoll and 17. Hannah Lyman. He married 9. Cornelia Howard Saunders¹.
       9. Cornelia Howard Saunders², born March 14, 1841; died January 1926. She was the daughter of 18. Alanson Saunders and 19. Cornelia Converse.

Notes for George Lyman Ingersoll:
Notes from A Genealogy of The Ingersoll Family in America 1629 - 1925, Comprising Descendents of Richard Ingersoll of Salem, Massachusetts, John Ingersoll of Westfield, Mass., and John Ingersoll of Huntington, Long Island, Compiled by Lillian Drake Avery of Pontiac, Michigan, Frederick H. Hitchcock, The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, New York, New York, 1926:

P. 264:

He attended school at Rochester, N. Y., and Oberlin, Ohio. In 1848 the family returned to Rochester, N. Y., where Mr. Ingersoll worked in the offices of a Rochester newspaper. This was preparation for the business which in the early fifties he took up at Hudson, Ohio. There he conducted the printing office of Sawyer and Ingersoll, in which many of the earliest books printed in Ohio were published, and also an important weekly paper of the early Western Reserve, called Ohio Observer, edited by Prof. Henry W. Day of Western Reserve College. Several of the files of this periodical he contributed to the collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. After a few years interval in Greenfield, Mass., he came to Cleveland in 1857, and beginning the study of law, practiced in the firm of Ingersoll Bros. with his brother Judge J. E. Ingersoll. While residing in that city he was connected with the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church; afterwards with Cass Avenue Presbyterian Church and then Beckwith Memorial Church. He was at times Deacon in the Church, Treasurer and member of the session. He married January 12, 1855 at Lanesborn, Mass., Kate L. Talcott, born there Feb. 22-1832; died May 24, 1871 at Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Platt Talcott of Lanesborn, Mass.; married second July 11, 1871 at Cleveland, Ohio, Cornelia Howard Saunders, born March 11, 1841 at Painesville, Ohio, daughter of Alanson and Cornelia (Converse) Saunders of New Haven, Conn. and Madison, Ohio.

More About Cornelia Howard Saunders:
Fact 1: 1869, Teacher in the Akron High School³

       Children of George Ingersoll and Cornelia Saunders are:

Howard Lyman Ingersoll, born November 09, 1872.

ii.

Horton Ingersoll, born January 04, 1874; died October 1875.

iii.

Helen Gertrude Ingersoll, born February 22, 1875 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Notes for Helen Gertrude Ingersoll:
Note from MS "Partial Genealogy of One Branch of the Ingersoll Family" Compiled by Clara Johnson Ingersoll, found in LC, copy in possession of John Paul Woodley, Jr.:

B.A. Lake Erie College - Graduate Normal School; Post Graduate work at Columbia University and the Cleveland School of Education. Now in charge of Latin Dept. East High School, Cleveland, Ohio

iv.

Arnold Saunders Ingersoll, born April 09, 1878.

Albert Converse Ingersoll, born March 15, 1879 in Wickliffe, Ohio; died 1953 in Ohio; married Clara Anna Johnson 1904 in Cleveland, Ohio.

vi.

Alanson Saunders Ingersoll, born May 13, 1880.

vii.

Ruth Cornelia Ingersoll, born June 07, 1885.

Children of George Ingersoll and Kate Talcott are:

George Talcott Ingersoll, born May 05, 1858 in Cleveland, Ohio.

ii.

Edwards Platt Ingersoll, born February 24, 1861; died August 07, 1920.

iii.

Mary Augusta Ingersoll, born November 14, 1863.

       10. Thomas Johnson, born December 06, 1852 in Raleigh-Regis, England; died October 22, 1941 in Columbus, Ohio. He was the son of 20. Thomas Johnson and 21. Ann Slater. He married 11. Mary Zepher Carnes October 04, 1881 in Nelsonville, Ohio.
       11. Mary Zepher Carnes, born October 04, 1858 in Nelsonville, Ohio; died September 1902 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. She was the daughter of 22. Alfred Harrison Carnes and 23. Sarah Ann Crothers.

Notes for Thomas Johnson:
Information from Death Certificate of Thomas Johnson, State of Ohio, Bureau of Vital Statistics, #60414:

Length of Residence in City (Columbus) where death occurred: 49 years.

Profession: Coal Operator, Pres. Lorain Coal & Dock Co.; Date last worked at this occupation: 1916

Residence at date of death: 1170 Bryden Rd., Columbus, Ohio

Cause of Death: Coronary Thrombosis

Birthplace: Raleigh-Regis, England

Informant: Mrs. Alice B. Johnson

Buried in Green Lawn Cemetery

No military service.

More About Thomas Johnson:
Fact 1: Abt. 1861, Emigrated from Birmingham, England to Baltimore, Maryland

       Children of Thomas Johnson and Mary Carnes are:

Thomas Alfred Johnson, born 1882.

ii.

Clara Anna Johnson, born 1884 in Nelsonville, Ohio; married Albert Converse Ingersoll 1904 in Cleveland, Ohio.

iii.

James Robert Johnson, born 1886.

iv.

Walter Carnes Johnson, born 1887.

Joseph Leonard Johnson, born 1889.

vi.

William McKinley Johnson, born October 11, 1891.

vii.

Esther Johnson, born 1893.