Col. Charles Ingersoll, born Sept. 1791, at Great Barrington, Mass.; died Aug. 18, 1832, of cholera. He was an officer in the British (Canadian) army throughout the War of 1812, and afterward held various public offices. He was a member of the Canadian Parliament in 1824, 1830, and 1832; Magistrate and Postmaster, and a Commissioner in the Court of Request; married Sept. 5, 1816, to Anna Maria Merritt. In 1817, he repurchased his father's Oxford farm at sheriff's sale. He and his brothers went earnestly to work; first a sawmill, then a grist mill, a store, a potashery and distillery were built. He brought his family there in 1821. The town of Ingersoll was named by him in memory of his father. His father was Thomas Ingersoll, born March 24, 1750. Thomas Ingersoll died in Toronto in 1812. Col. Charles Ingersoll was the child of Thomas Ingersoll's third wife, Sarah (Whiting) Backus, a sister of Gen. John Whiting. Sarah was born April 26, 1762, died August 8, 1832, daughter of Gamaliel Whiting.
Col. Charles Ingersoll and Anna Maria (Merritt) Ingersoll's children: Susan (m. Charles Merritt), James H. Ingersoll, William Hamilton Ingersoll, Charles Ingersoll, Mary Ann (m. ___ Benson), Sarah (m. Nehemiah Merritt), Catherine (unmarried; living in St. Catherines in 1883), and Thomas Ingersoll
* Source: A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925, by Lillian Drake Avery, 1926
* Name and burial taken from the burial book at the cemetery
* Per cemetery burial register (appears in the May 1888 section), "Removed from Episcopal Church Ingersoll to Section A, Lot 301."
Col. Charles Ingersoll and Anna Maria (Merritt) Ingersoll's children: Susan (m. Charles Merritt), James H. Ingersoll, William Hamilton Ingersoll, Charles Ingersoll, Mary Ann (m. ___ Benson), Sarah (m. Nehemiah Merritt), Catherine (unmarried; living in St. Catherines in 1883), and Thomas Ingersoll
* Source: A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925, by Lillian Drake Avery, 1926
* Name and burial taken from the burial book at the cemetery
* Per cemetery burial register (appears in the May 1888 section), "Removed from Episcopal Church Ingersoll to Section A, Lot 301."
Col. Charles Ingersoll, born Sept. 1791, at Great Barrington, Mass.; died Aug. 18, 1832, of cholera. He was an officer in the British (Canadian) army throughout the War of 1812, and afterward held various public offices. He was a member of the Canadian Parliament in 1824, 1830, and 1832; Magistrate and Postmaster, and a Commissioner in the Court of Request; married Sept. 5, 1816, to Anna Maria Merritt. In 1817, he repurchased his father's Oxford farm at sheriff's sale. He and his brothers went earnestly to work; first a sawmill, then a grist mill, a store, a potashery and distillery were built. He brought his family there in 1821. The town of Ingersoll was named by him in memory of his father. His father was Thomas Ingersoll, born March 24, 1750. Thomas Ingersoll died in Toronto in 1812. Col. Charles Ingersoll was the child of Thomas Ingersoll's third wife, Sarah (Whiting) Backus, a sister of Gen. John Whiting. Sarah was born April 26, 1762, died August 8, 1832, daughter of Gamaliel Whiting.
Col. Charles Ingersoll and Anna Maria (Merritt) Ingersoll's children: Susan (m. Charles Merritt), James H. Ingersoll, William Hamilton Ingersoll, Charles Ingersoll, Mary Ann (m. ___ Benson), Sarah (m. Nehemiah Merritt), Catherine (unmarried; living in St. Catherines in 1883), and Thomas Ingersoll
* Source: A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925, by Lillian Drake Avery, 1926
* Name and burial taken from the burial book at the cemetery
* Per cemetery burial register (appears in the May 1888 section), "Removed from Episcopal Church Ingersoll to Section A, Lot 301."
Col. Charles Ingersoll and Anna Maria (Merritt) Ingersoll's children: Susan (m. Charles Merritt), James H. Ingersoll, William Hamilton Ingersoll, Charles Ingersoll, Mary Ann (m. ___ Benson), Sarah (m. Nehemiah Merritt), Catherine (unmarried; living in St. Catherines in 1883), and Thomas Ingersoll
* Source: A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925, by Lillian Drake Avery, 1926
* Name and burial taken from the burial book at the cemetery
* Per cemetery burial register (appears in the May 1888 section), "Removed from Episcopal Church Ingersoll to Section A, Lot 301."
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