Ann W. Ingram was the eldest child of a dairy farmer in Harrison County, IN and a fifth generation Hoosier. She was the first in her family to attend high school and graduate from college. She graduated in 1924 from Central Normal College, later Canterbury College, now gone, in Danville, IN. She also did graduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington (42.5 credit hours by 1929). She became a high school teacher.
Her birth name was Anna Elizabeth Wilcoxson.
She decided to change her family name from Wilcoxson to Wilcox while she was in college. Her siblings followed her example. Her parents did not.
She taught school in several Indiana towns including Washington Center in Whitley County during the 1920s and 1930s. About 1940, she moved to Newport, Indiana. She lived there for the rest of her life as a "big fish in a small pond."
Both in Washington Center and Newport, her younger sisters lived with her to attend high school since there was not a high school near their family home. They remained close for the rest of their lives. She also had three brothers.
In the early 1940s she married Homer Ingram, an attorney. They did not have children, but raised the two daughters (Connie Ann Sandy and Annie Beth Sandy) of a young friend who had been their foster child as a teenager as their "grandchildren."
Ann, her husband, a friend, and granddaughter Connie Sandy (#39782502) were killed by a drunk driver as they left Newport to drive to another town for ice cream after dinner. The driver of the other car also died.
Her birth name was Anna Elizabeth Wilcoxson.
She decided to change her family name from Wilcoxson to Wilcox while she was in college. Her siblings followed her example. Her parents did not.
She taught school in several Indiana towns including Washington Center in Whitley County during the 1920s and 1930s. About 1940, she moved to Newport, Indiana. She lived there for the rest of her life as a "big fish in a small pond."
Both in Washington Center and Newport, her younger sisters lived with her to attend high school since there was not a high school near their family home. They remained close for the rest of their lives. She also had three brothers.
In the early 1940s she married Homer Ingram, an attorney. They did not have children, but raised the two daughters (Connie Ann Sandy and Annie Beth Sandy) of a young friend who had been their foster child as a teenager as their "grandchildren."
Ann, her husband, a friend, and granddaughter Connie Sandy (#39782502) were killed by a drunk driver as they left Newport to drive to another town for ice cream after dinner. The driver of the other car also died.
Ann W. Ingram was the eldest child of a dairy farmer in Harrison County, IN and a fifth generation Hoosier. She was the first in her family to attend high school and graduate from college. She graduated in 1924 from Central Normal College, later Canterbury College, now gone, in Danville, IN. She also did graduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington (42.5 credit hours by 1929). She became a high school teacher.
Her birth name was Anna Elizabeth Wilcoxson.
She decided to change her family name from Wilcoxson to Wilcox while she was in college. Her siblings followed her example. Her parents did not.
She taught school in several Indiana towns including Washington Center in Whitley County during the 1920s and 1930s. About 1940, she moved to Newport, Indiana. She lived there for the rest of her life as a "big fish in a small pond."
Both in Washington Center and Newport, her younger sisters lived with her to attend high school since there was not a high school near their family home. They remained close for the rest of their lives. She also had three brothers.
In the early 1940s she married Homer Ingram, an attorney. They did not have children, but raised the two daughters (Connie Ann Sandy and Annie Beth Sandy) of a young friend who had been their foster child as a teenager as their "grandchildren."
Ann, her husband, a friend, and granddaughter Connie Sandy (#39782502) were killed by a drunk driver as they left Newport to drive to another town for ice cream after dinner. The driver of the other car also died.
Her birth name was Anna Elizabeth Wilcoxson.
She decided to change her family name from Wilcoxson to Wilcox while she was in college. Her siblings followed her example. Her parents did not.
She taught school in several Indiana towns including Washington Center in Whitley County during the 1920s and 1930s. About 1940, she moved to Newport, Indiana. She lived there for the rest of her life as a "big fish in a small pond."
Both in Washington Center and Newport, her younger sisters lived with her to attend high school since there was not a high school near their family home. They remained close for the rest of their lives. She also had three brothers.
In the early 1940s she married Homer Ingram, an attorney. They did not have children, but raised the two daughters (Connie Ann Sandy and Annie Beth Sandy) of a young friend who had been their foster child as a teenager as their "grandchildren."
Ann, her husband, a friend, and granddaughter Connie Sandy (#39782502) were killed by a drunk driver as they left Newport to drive to another town for ice cream after dinner. The driver of the other car also died.
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