Thomas Ingersoll Jr. was the son of Major Thomas Ingersoll of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and his third wife Sarah Whiting. Major Ingersoll received a large grant of land in Upper Canada in 1793 and founded a village in the Thames River Valley that would become the city of Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario.
Young Thomas was born in Queenston, on Lake Ontario in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, where the family first located after coming from Massachusetts. He married Gertrude "Getty" Carroll, and they were the parents of 4 children. Thomas' sister Appy married Getty's brother William Carroll; and Thomas' half sister Laura Secord won renown as the Canadian "Heroine of the War of 1812."
In 1840/1841, Thomas built two mills on the falls of the Thames River in what is now St. Mary's, Ontario.
From the files of the Ingersoll Public Library: "Thomas went to St. Marys, founding the town when the Canada Land Co. made arragements with him to build a saw and grist mill in Blanshard Twp. and in return receive 337 acres of land; a plaque near the town hall of St. Mary's gives the Ingersolls credit for founding the town."
Thomas died before the new cemetery was founded and it is probable his body was relocated. There is no stone.
Young Thomas was born in Queenston, on Lake Ontario in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, where the family first located after coming from Massachusetts. He married Gertrude "Getty" Carroll, and they were the parents of 4 children. Thomas' sister Appy married Getty's brother William Carroll; and Thomas' half sister Laura Secord won renown as the Canadian "Heroine of the War of 1812."
In 1840/1841, Thomas built two mills on the falls of the Thames River in what is now St. Mary's, Ontario.
From the files of the Ingersoll Public Library: "Thomas went to St. Marys, founding the town when the Canada Land Co. made arragements with him to build a saw and grist mill in Blanshard Twp. and in return receive 337 acres of land; a plaque near the town hall of St. Mary's gives the Ingersolls credit for founding the town."
Thomas died before the new cemetery was founded and it is probable his body was relocated. There is no stone.
Thomas Ingersoll Jr. was the son of Major Thomas Ingersoll of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and his third wife Sarah Whiting. Major Ingersoll received a large grant of land in Upper Canada in 1793 and founded a village in the Thames River Valley that would become the city of Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario.
Young Thomas was born in Queenston, on Lake Ontario in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, where the family first located after coming from Massachusetts. He married Gertrude "Getty" Carroll, and they were the parents of 4 children. Thomas' sister Appy married Getty's brother William Carroll; and Thomas' half sister Laura Secord won renown as the Canadian "Heroine of the War of 1812."
In 1840/1841, Thomas built two mills on the falls of the Thames River in what is now St. Mary's, Ontario.
From the files of the Ingersoll Public Library: "Thomas went to St. Marys, founding the town when the Canada Land Co. made arragements with him to build a saw and grist mill in Blanshard Twp. and in return receive 337 acres of land; a plaque near the town hall of St. Mary's gives the Ingersolls credit for founding the town."
Thomas died before the new cemetery was founded and it is probable his body was relocated. There is no stone.
Young Thomas was born in Queenston, on Lake Ontario in the vicinity of Niagara Falls, where the family first located after coming from Massachusetts. He married Gertrude "Getty" Carroll, and they were the parents of 4 children. Thomas' sister Appy married Getty's brother William Carroll; and Thomas' half sister Laura Secord won renown as the Canadian "Heroine of the War of 1812."
In 1840/1841, Thomas built two mills on the falls of the Thames River in what is now St. Mary's, Ontario.
From the files of the Ingersoll Public Library: "Thomas went to St. Marys, founding the town when the Canada Land Co. made arragements with him to build a saw and grist mill in Blanshard Twp. and in return receive 337 acres of land; a plaque near the town hall of St. Mary's gives the Ingersolls credit for founding the town."
Thomas died before the new cemetery was founded and it is probable his body was relocated. There is no stone.
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