After loosing her first husband my grandmother married John C. Ingersoll to whom she was with the remainder of her life. John Ingersoll lived in the Peoria/Elmwood Il areas. He was a veteran of www1.
John C. Ingersoll
From John to his mother.
These next few photos are friends, relatives, co-workers and army buddies.
John’s Mother and Sister?
John’s Cousin
Louise Schafer Mathison with her cousin Amelia Miller Wolf and family.
These are the Schafer Sisters of Illinois and Indiana. Daughter’s of Conrad and Barbara Oertle Schafer. Anna Schafer Fash was my GG grandmother. I hope I got the names in the right places. Feel free to correct me if I got it wrong. Hope you all have a great New Year.
Uncle Jack Fash and his wife Libby are the first two people on the left. The others are unknown to me. Jack Fash was Proprietor and captain of the Peoria Belle steamboat. Recently I found a list of Missouri River Steamboats. It says, Peoria Belle. Sunk in Cheyenne Bend, at the mouth of the Cheyenne, on the upper river, in 1864.
http://kchsoc.org/cultural/boatinfo/steamboating_onuppermissouririver_encrypted.pdf
Rev.and Mrs Ummel of the Mennonite Church
GG Uncle Harry and GG Aunt Laura Wolf, Grandma Ingersoll and John, and Betty Lois Willis After Church On Easter Sunday 1938
