Person:Anna Ingersoll (4)

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m. 28 Feb 1775
  1. Anna Ingersoll1773 - 1821
  1. Roxanna Crittenden1796 - 1887
Facts and Events
Name Anna Ingersoll
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1773 New York, United States
Marriage to Ebenezer Crittenden
Death[1] 24 Jul 1821 Cincinnatus, Cortland, New York, United States
Burial[1] Cincinnatus Cemetery, Cincinnatus, Cortland, New York, United States

Notes

  • history books claim she was Native American (possibly Seneca), but no proof has been found
  • maiden name "Ingersoll" comes from son Porter's death certificate
  • Ingersoll genealogy claims she is the d/o Thomas Ingersoll and Lydia Dewey
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 43688901, in Find A Grave
    includes headstone photo, last accessed Jun 2025.

    [2025 Note: Headstone photo is from a photo postcard dated 27 Jul 1909. Supposedly Anna's headstone no longer exists at the cemetery.]

  2.   Herald Mail (Fairport, New York)
    1 Mar 1934.

    Herbert A. Howard, of Buffalo, the writer of many very interesting reminiscent letters appearing in the Herald-Mail, in a letter to the editor recalls the time when the two of us first met, a hundred miles from here, in a cemetery in Cincinnatus, Cortland county. It seems that Mr. Howard made a practice of roaming through cemeteries in his spare time on his travels and noting unusual epitaphs on the stones. In his letter, he encloses this copy of an epitaph he found on a stone in the Cincinnatus cemetery.

    "Anna Crittenden was her name, America was her nation; Cincinnatus was her dwelling place, and Christ was her salvation. Now she is dead and in her grave, till all her bones are rotten; if this you see let her remembered be, and never forgotten. The rose is red and grass is green and days are past which she has seen and days to come we'll all remember that J.C. was her Redeemer"