Person:Rosina Babcock (1)

Bio from: Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus Co. NY, ed by William Adams, pub 189 History of the Town of Otto – Chapter XL (40) Pages 940 & 941

Surnames: INGRAHAM, AUSTIN, BABCOCK

Alexander INGRAHAM was born in Pittstown, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1823. His father, H. W. INGRAHAM, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and came to Otto in 1826, where he articled fifty acres of wild land, to which he subsequently added more. He had six sons and two daughters and died in 1870, aged seventy-two. Alexander, the oldest of these children, has always resided in the town. In 1855 he married Sally AUSTIN. They have one son and one daughter. Mr. INGRAHAM, a few years ago saw two young girls drowned while attempting to ford Cattaraugus creek, and afterward was more determined than ever to have a bridge over the stream which was built in 1892.

Simeon M. INGRAHAM was born in Pittstown, N. Y., July 7, 1828, and came with his father, H. W. INGRAHAM, to Otto, settling on the farm on which he now lives. He enlisted in Co K, 64th N. Y. Vol. Inf. in the fall of 1861, and at Fair Oaks was struck by three rebel bullets, one of which would probably have proved fatal had not the ball struck his wallet, which contained papers and money. After the battle he found more than forty bullet-holes in his rubber blanket, which was caused by its being rolled up. He passed through the Seven Days' Fight, was at the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, where he was again slightly wounded, and at Fredericksburg, where he was more seriously wounded, the ball passing through his cartridge box and belt and striking a rib bone. He was at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and was shot through the left hand July 2, 1863. With this wound be was in the hospital till into November, when he again joined his regiment. He was in the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, in the latter of which he received a severe bayonet wound in one knee and was confined in the hospital till September, when he again joined his regiment in front of Petersburg and had command of his company as first sergeant till the expiration of his term of service. He married Rosina BABCOCK in Feb., 1857. They resided in Leon and New Albion till the death of his father in I870, when he bought out the heirs and removed to the homestead in Otto. Their only child, a daughter, died in infancy and May 13, 1886, his wife's death occurred.