uncle peter

Received this photo in an email this morning from John Bass. The poor forlorn grave sported a pot of something dead, so I added the flowers. Someone really needs to take a scrub brush to that lichen.

Peter Riley Ingalls was born October 28, 1834 in Cuba Township (Allegheny County) New York, the eldest of ten children of Lansford Whiting Ingalls and Laura Louise Colby. When Peter was a young teenager, the Ingalls family moved to Kane County, Illinois, just west of Chicago. In the early 1850s, they moved to Concord Township (Jefferson County) Wisconsin; Lansford bought eighty acres there in 1854. To the south lived the Holbrooks: Frederick, his wife Charlotte (widow of Henry N. Quiner), and five of her six children.

There were three marriages between the Ingalls and Quiner families. Peter Ingalls married Eliza Ann Quiner on June 5, 1861.

After the loss of his farm in Jefferson County, Lansford Ingalls moved to Waterloo, Wisconsin, and Peter and Eliza also moved and lived with the Ingalls family. When Lansford moved to Pepin and Pierce Counties in Wisconsin in the mid-1860s, Peter and Eliza followed. Four children (Ella, Peter, Lansford, and Edith) were born in Wisconsin.

In 1874, Peter and Eliza and family moved to Zumbro Falls (Wabasha County) Minnesota, where son Edmund was born. Following a flood in 1888 which wiped out most of the town, Peter, Eliza, and Edmund (the other children were already married) moved north to Milaca (Mille Lacs County) Minnesota. Here, Peter Riley Ingalls died in March 1900.

After her husband's death, Eliza Ingalls went to live with daughter Edith in North Dakota. She then moved to Stevens County, Washington, and lived with son Edmund. When he decided to move south, Eliza moved to California and alternated living with daughters Alice and Ella in their homes. Eliza Ingalls died June 6, 1931, in Eagle Rock, California; she was buried in Hernet, California.
- posted by pioneergirl at 7:49 AM