Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Ingram, Ellen Z. Maggard 177037

Birth: 04/17/1855 Death: 01/05/1941 Marriage: 02/03/1870

Cemetery: Old Denton (SOUTHEAST)

Record Source: Researcher-Submitted Info, Texas Death Certificate, The Paris News

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025)

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THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, January 6, 1941, p. 7: “MRS. ELLEN INGRAM OF ROXTON DIES. Mrs. Ella Maggard Ingram, widow of Lafayette Ingram, died at 11:30 p. m. Sunday at her home northeast of Roxton, after a week’s illness. Funeral service was set for 3 p. m. Monday at Oak Ridge Church of Christ at Roxton, conducted by the Rev. P. F. Herndon, minister of First Congregational Church of Paris, assisted by the Rev. Kirk M. Beard, Methodist pastor at Roxton, with burial at the Denton Cemetery at Roxton by Brown-Roden Funeral Home. Nephews named to serve as pallbearers are Ingram and J. V. Creed, L. E. Ingram, Jr., M. S. Ingram, Jr., Portwood Alley and Joe Cregg. Mrs. Ingram leaves six children, Mrs. Viola Creed, B. M. Ingram, Dr. L. E. Ingram and J. R. Ingram, all of Roxton; Mrs. J. F. Humphries of Lampasas and Milton S. Ingram of Richardson; 15 grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. She was born April 17, 1855, in Carrollton, Mo., and was married Feb. 3, 1870. She and her husband moved to Texas soon afterward. She had been a member of the. Church of Christ since young womanhood.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Ellen Z Ingram
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 05 Jan 1941
Event Place: Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 17 Apr 1855
Birthplace: Missouri
Father’s Name: B Maggard
Mother’s Name: House
Certificate Number: 3877
GS Film number: 2138244
Digital Folder Number: 005144977
Image Number: 02768
Citing this Record
“Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3M1-STX : 13 March 2018), House in entry for Ellen Z Ingram, 05 Jan 1941; citing certificate number 3877, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,138,244.

Additional information from Roberta J. Woods, now deceased, maiden name was Maggard. Married in Lamar County.

Information from THE JOURNEY ACROSS AMERICA 1630-1934, by Skipper Steely for Cecile Denton Roden, from her notes and research, published 1985: Ellen Maggard married Lafayette Ingram. See record of daughter Viola B. Ingram Creed.

Information from the Pedigree chart of Wanda Lee Roberts Compton, 21 Jun 1997, Paris, TX: Ellen Z. Maggard was the daughter of Benjamin Maggard and Elizabeth Howse Peyton Maggard.

On same stone with Infant of L. and E. Ingram 1892. Married Lafayette Ingram.

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