First Families of Jasper County

Hezekiah & Sarah Ingle

Hi, my name is Douglas Phillip Card, and as you, I am a descendent of Hezekiah and Sarah Emily Jane (Sanders) Guthrie Ingle. As I just began doing a little research on the web of this family I was happy to run across your two postings. Being new to this I'm just sending you two this email rather than actually posting anything yet. (and sending copies to two others with excellent web material.)

My relation to Hezekiah and Sarah Ingle: Ella E. (Ingle) Knight, one of their daughters, was my maternal grandmother, a sweet, Christian old lady as I remember her; as my mother Lorena Fern (Knight) Card was her only child, I ended up with some interesting historical family material from both her parents. Some of this is from my grandfather Elmer, of the Nelson and Phillip Knight families, another well known Jasper County farm family; and some from the Ingle family. Three of the Ingle children married Knights. As Ella and her new husband Elmer Knight (as well as Nellie K. and Charles Ingle) moved out West in 1904, there are naturally pictures, post cards, etc. One interesting item is an antique doll, now in possession of my niece, which had belonged to Ella as a girl; my Mom used to tell me the doll was named "Sarah Emily Jane Guthrie Ingle". I was fascinated to learn about her Sanders family's extensive N.C. and Tennessee background.

Among these items is a Family Record scroll bearing the birth, death, and marriage records of Hezekiah and Sarah Ingle, and all their children. Although they generally correspond to your own records, there is quite a bit of additional material as well. While it shows a very large, "blended" family, it does not bring clarity, however, to the question of the relation between Hezekiah Ingle, Sarah E. (Sanders) Guthrie Ingle, a male Guthrie whom she seemingly married about 1847, at only about age 15, and a possible first wife for Hezekiah. While it seems to be accepted that Hezekiah was Sarah's second husband, this list of children also suggests that he may also have had an earlier wife with whom he had children . This is quite complicated, even with figuring in the birth places which you list. One puzzle is that you have them married in about 1847 in McNairy Co., Tennessee, whereas this Family Record lists their marriage in Jan. 9, 1853, and there are children born in Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri.

I am sending this Family Record information to you exactly as it is printed on the scroll; any interpretations are up to you.

The captions on the scroll are "Family Record", "Births and Marriage of Parents", "Father", "Mother", "Births of Children", "Marriages of children", and "Gone before". They mostly seem to have been filled in by the same excellent hand back in the 1880s, then a similar hand through the 1930s, with a few deaths added later by my mother. Parts are incomplete. (For comparison, I have added the place of birth from your records)

Here is the clarification on the first marriage and children of Hezekiah Ingle, as found on the 1850 Census from McNairy Co. Tennessee:

Hezekiah was 24 (not 26) years old, a farmer with 150 acres; his wife Matilda (born TN) was 21; their two children were Mary, 1, and James, 3 month, both born TN.

Evidently Matilda died soon after this, as he remarried in 1853.

This explains why there were these two children born to Hezekiah prior to his marriage to Sarah Sanders Guthrie, for whom it was also her second marriage, with whom she had Joseph Guthrie.