A marker at the gate indicates the Ingram family began farming this land around 1850.
Ingram Homeplace, Circa 1890, Clay County
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I’m an descendant of the ingrams from fort gains, engrams and I would love to find out more.
kjennings1599@gmail.com if you want to connect and see if we have any relatives in common
I think this is where my family were slaves and we got the name Ingram. This picture is very touching. I’m doing a lot of family research, and this is wonderful. Thank you for a possible family connection.
Hello Karen,
My name is Marvin Engram. I too am researching my family history. I have been reviewing the Census and may have identified my enslaved ancestors here as well. Please email me for further discussion: engramm@bellsouth.net. Thanks!
I am so sorry for the late reply, I had gotten off this site somehow, but I have logged back in and I am on my journey to find more about my family roots.
Hope that you are still here, or anyone that my have a connection with the engrams of Fort gains, clay county Georgia, or Cuthbert and Randolph county, and beyond.
Thank you for going to Clay County!
All my wife’s ancestral family is from the “Cotton Hill” area just north of Ft. Gaines.
I always enjoy visiting Clay County and get there as often as I can. Definitely a favorite part of the state.
We hope to get there someday, as many of her people are buried in several rural cemeteries in Clay and Randolph County.
Thank you for the visuals only imagined in our dreams.
You are appreciated from (very snowy) Minnesota!
Dan- I’m sorry I’ve not replied sooner, but I’m re-editing many posts on the website and came across your kind words. Thank you so much for looking, and I hope you and your wife make it down someday. I looked for the AME church you reference but had no luck finding it. I will continue to look.
Brian,
I ALWAYS love your photos from Clay County…that beautiful red soil!
The address of the church and cemetery is 233 Pataula Park Road north of Ft. Gaines.
All my best
I was trying to place where my family was at in Georgia and saw Randolph, GA. Wonder if this is their place. My ancestors are Ingram’s. My mom’s great or great great grandparents were Ingram. I know he had quite a few children. If I remember correctly, they left Georgia and went to Texas where they all dies and are buried in a family cemetery there. Do you possibly know the names of the Ingram’s that lived here?