2. Peter² Ingersoll, Jr. (Peter¹) (#83) was born in New York, New York, United States March 2, 1805.⁽⁵³⁴⁾ Peter died October 9, 1876 in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, United States, at 71 years of age.⁽⁵³⁵⁾

He married Typhenia Wines AFT 1820. (Typhenia Wines is #84.) Typhenia was born in Fairplay Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States May 9, 1809.⁽⁵³⁶⁾ Typhenia was the daughter of Leonard Wines and Rhoda. Typhenia died May 12, 1842 in Linton, Greene County, Indiana, United States, at 33 years of age.⁽⁵³⁷⁾ <"historical Atlas of the State of Indiana" / 1876 / Chicago Public Library / R.912.722.B29> "PETER INGERSOLL attended the first school in Fairplay Township." Census of Indiana -- 1830 -- Greene County -- Volume 6, page 318; Head of family listed -- PETER INGERSOLL, JR. -- 1830 males in family 30 to 50............... 1 females in family under 5.............. 1 females in family between 15 and 20.... 1 <"history of Greene and Sullivan Counties, Indiana" / 1884> "PETER and TYPHENIA INGERSOLL were members of the Presbyterian Church." (page 400) "PETER INGERSOLL served as Captain in the War of 1812-15." (page 116) "PETER INGERSOLL was born April 2, 1805 in New York state and at an early day came with his parents to Greene County, Indiana where he married to TYPHENIA WINES, who was born May 9, 1809, a daughter of LEONARD WINES. He died October 9th, 1870, preceded by his wife, May 12th, 1852. The latter rests in peace by the side of her two first born in the village cemetery in Dixon. LIZZIE STARNES died in her home in Kansas. Her remains were brought to Indiana and interred in the cemetery at Worthington where also rest the remains of her Father. (page 403)<5> "As I remember the old INGERSOLL farm it was a very well kept old fashioned house. Grandfather (PETER INGERSOLL, JR.), his sister DEBORAH HULL, a daughter of Aunt LIZZIE, who married JAMES STARNES, a son, I think his name was HARRISON, we called him TIP, he married MARTHA CAMPBELL who we all knew as Aunt MAT. Then Uncle WICK (J. WICKLIFF INGERSOLL) who was named after WICKLIFFE WINES, he married as you know your Aunt and they lived with Grandfather. At the time of his death WICK bought the shares of the other heirs and remodeled the house." "My first effort was to trace the ownership of the INGERSOLL homestead, in Old Fairplay, Greene County. Greene County's records show the quarter section was entered or purchased at a Public Land sale by W.C. Field, who in 1841 transferred it to J.W. WINES, at which point the records hump to PETER INGERSOLL, your Great Grandfather. There is record of your Grandfather purchasing the shares of the heirs of PETER. Your Grandfather improved buildings and farm and upon his death it was a well equipped and kept homestead farm. I enclose a snap taken of it in 1940, a sad reminder to me of the home and farm as I remember it. My first recollection was your Grandfather's (J. WICKLIFF INGERSOLL) funeral, held in the large parlor in the left side, or West end of the house, as shown in the picture, with my Grandmother (MARY INGERSOLL), his sister. I recall as the services progressed the mourning became audible, then louder and louder until I, a small boy, became affected in the same manner when my Grandmother pinched me and shut me up. Pinching must have been on both sides of the family as my Mother (SARAH ANNE GREGG DIXON) used the same method of discipline. This same Grandmother later, once caught me at the Linton Fair attending a striking machine (one of those that you got three strikes with a maul on a lever for a nickel and if you rang the bell at the top of the shaft you got a cigar). She elbowed through the crowd, nipped me by the ear and led me through the crowd away from such hellish business. (One really got a nickel's worth in swinging the maul and grunting). Later in the day I engaged in selling red synthetic lemonade from a rain barrel which she did not object to although the customers were all cheated. Your Grandfather died in Hot Springs, in case you do not know, and left the home and farmland of a well to do farmer, equipped with the best the period afforded to produce a comfortable living. The house shown in the snap was two stories both main and rear el, with a hall through the main building from the front to the rear porch. Large old fashioned fire places were built in each of the two large downstairs rooms -- living and parlor. In the fenced yard was a large tree with an extended limb for a chain swing, smoke house, wash house and a deep well. The well was covered by a large flag stone and the opening was housed in from the roof of which was suspended on a pulley, two "old oaken buckets," which hung in the well. To the West, left in the snap, was large orchard on a hill sloping to the East and South. On the West side of the hill was Indian burial mound built up of sand although the hill was of clay under the top soil. It was perhaps seventy five feet above the surrounding land when TIP and I played around an old excavation on the top. My Father when a boy visiting his Grandfather (PETER INGERSOLL, JR.), remembered that the mound was wooded and that human bones had been taken out. A skull, he remembered, was wired to snap its jaw and jokes were played on visitors by placing it in a closet, operating the jaw with a string. In about 1890 your Grandmother bought in Worthington, several Texas ponies and helped to introduce this dwarf breed into Greene County stock. Among them were two colts, one of which became TIP's riding pony, TIP was equipped with a suitable cowboy outfit and rode herd on the three or four old bossies, running them to the barn at milking time, whooping and cracking a long blacksnake whip, driving your Grandmother to distraction and the cows to withholding their output. The other was broke to the family buckboard, but never was trusted like old Doc, ageing family horse who for a generation was noted for his gentleness and cleanliness -- he slept on one side of his stall and used the opposite for all other purposes. I had the honor of being kicked on same day by TIP's pony, named Barney, and by the alleged family driving horse, Billy. The first by Barney was an entirely unprovoked assault, but in the case of Billy he was probably aggrieved by my endeavors to hitch him to the buckboard. "We find record of two PETER INGERSOLLS, one mentioned as a Major in the Revolutionary War and one as a Captain in the War of 1812. They migrated from New York State and PETER JR. and PETER SR. were enumerated in the Census of 1820 and 1830 in Greene County. Can you identify them from you Mother's (DEBORAH INGERSOLL-MILLER) records? "The INGERSOLLS were unmistakable Whigs and Republicans, as evidenced by the number of given name of HARRISON, starting with your Grandfather's brother, TIP, a political given name honoring the first HARRISON President, shortened to Tip or Tippy as used by your Mother and Grandmother, an abbreviation of Tippecanoe, where Old General HARRISON made a good Indian out of Tecumseh's brother and made himself President. The political rallying cry of that campaign was "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." The given name WICKLIFF was also a favorite for your family, as you know that it started with WICKLIFF WINES, brother of LEONARD WINES." Sources: <1> The research of Rooseve Fern Hunt <4> Letter of Nathan Dixon Hunt to Wick Miller, dated 07 Mar 1945 <5> "History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, Indiana" -- 1884 <18> "Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana" -- 1876 -- Chicago Public Library -- R.912.722.B29 <19> Letter from Hannah Hunt Newman to Nathan Dixon Hunt, dated 06 Feb 1945

Peter Ingersoll, Jr. and Typhenia Wines had the following children:

3 i. Mary³ Ingersoll (#17) was born in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana, United States before 1849, the first event for which there is a recorded date.⁽⁵³⁸⁾ Mary died 1902 in Linton, Greene County, Indiana, United States.⁽⁵³⁹⁾ She married Nathan Dixon Hunt Dr. BEF 1849. (Nathan Dixon Hunt Dr. is #16.) Nathan was born in Coshocton, Coshocton, Ohio, United States June 11, 1827.⁽⁵⁴⁰⁾ Nathan was the son of David Hunt and Mary. Nathan died April 14, 1865 in Owen County, Indiana, United States, at 37 years of age.⁽⁵⁴¹⁾ (See Nathan Dixon Hunt Dr. for the continuation of this line.)

4 ii. Phoebe Ingersoll (#296) was born BEF 1829. She married twice. She married J.M. Hunter. (J.M. Hunter is #311.) She married Baker. ( Baker is #312.)

5 iii. Catherine Ingersoll (#297) was born BEF 1829. She married J.W. Sherwood November 24, 1853. (J.W. Sherwood is #301.) (See J.W. Sherwood for the continuation of this line.)

6 iv. Harrison C. Ingersoll (#298) was born BEF 1829. He married Martha Campbell CA 1844. (Martha Campbell is #309.) <-- "History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, Indiana" / 1884> "H.C. who died July 16, 1866 of a disease contracted in service, was a member of the 115th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. At his death he left a daughter who now lives with J.W.'s family." (page 379)

7 v. Lizzie Ingersoll (#299) was born BEF 1829. She married James Starnes CA 1844. (James Starnes is #310.) <-- "History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, Indiana" / 1884> "She died in Kansas at her home. Her remains were brought to Indiana, and interred in the cemetery at Worthington where also rest the remains of her Father." (page 403)

+ 8 vi. J. Wickliff Ingersoll was born 1847.

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