Joseph, his eldest son, was born January 21, 1773, and his father taught him the common branches of education, including surveying and algebra. While his father was making his first improvements on the Wyalusing, Joseph remained at home in Bucks County, in charge of the business. He learned the trade of a millwright. About the year 1793 he married Pamelia Ellicott, and soon after bought three hundred acres of land on the Susquehanna River, at the mouth of the Sugar Run. He moved his family to this place in 1795, and commenced building a saw mill in the fall of 1801, and finished it in the spring following. Soon afterwards he built a grist mill. His wife, Pamelia Ellicott, died 17 November, 1824. He afterwards married Laura (Whitcomb) Vose, a widow, by whom he had two sons. He had six sons by his first wife—no daughters. He died 11 June, 1829. Thomas, his eldest son, was educated partly by his father at home and partly in the common-school at Wyalusing. He learned his father's business of millwright, running mills and farming. He bought a farm and settled first at Browntown, Pa. But he remained there but a short time, when he sold out and came back to Sugar Run, and lived near his father. After the death of his father, he bought the homestead, and there lived until his death. He re-built the mills, and also erected a store-house, and engaged in the mercantile business. While quite a young man he was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and held that office during the most of his life. His mind was well informed on all general topics; his judgment was excellent, and he was noted for his morality, honesty and truthfulness. He was mild and quiet in his manners, but decided and firm in his purposes. Eunice, his wife, was handsome in her appearance and pleasing in her manners, possessed a lively and cheerful disposition, and was exceedingly energetic. She managed all the affairs of her household with economy and skill, and often assisted her husband in his business. When he was absent she could as readily manage the business out-doors as in the house. She was remarkably generous, and always had a bountiful hand for the poor, and was active in assisting her neighbors who were in sickness or trouble. Without making a public profession, both she and her husband exhibited the virtues of Christianity in her daily walk and character. She died 2 March, 1844. He died 14 August, 1855. They were both buried in the Terrytown Cemetery.
Children, all born in Asylum, now Wilmot, Pa.:
1. Anna Pamelia, born 4 May, 1818; married Benjamin Goldsmith Horton, of Blooming Grove, Orange Co., N. Y., where she now resides. 2. Joseph Washington Ingham, born 21 Oct., 1823; married in Wyalusing, 5 June, 1849, by Rev. Dr. S. F. Colt, to Mary Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Rev. George Taylor, of Moravia, N. Y., and Abigail Baldwin, of Bloomfield, N. J., and grand-daughter of Maj. John Taylor, of Wyalusing, and born at Moravia, N. Y., 16 Jan., 1830; they have one son, George Taylor Ingham, an only child, born at Sugar Run, 13 Aug., 1851; he is a merchant.
J. W. Ingham owns and occupies the old homestead of his father, and is a manufacturer of lumber and flour. He is a good writer, and some of the soundest and best political articles published in the journals of the county are from his pen. Mrs. Ingham is a worthy and active member of the Presbyterian Church.
3. Thomas Jefferson, born 25 Nov., 1828; married at Laporte, Pa., 5 June, 1853, by William A. Mason, Esq., to Caroline Araminta Cheney, daughter of Abel Cheney and Priscilla Washburn, and born at Cortlandville, N. Y., 15 Feb., 1831. He removed to Sullivan County after the death of his father, and studied law, soon attained to eminence as a lawyer, and stood at the head of the bar in his county; he has held the offices of Register, Recorder, Prothonotary, member of the Legislature, and Additional Law Judge, and in the fall of 1874, he, although always a strong Republican and editor of a Republican paper, was elected president Judge of the 44th Judicial District—a district largely Democratic. He resides in Laporte, Sullivan County, has three children, Ernest V., Ellery P., and Frank Horton. 4. Debbie Lelia, born 3 June, 1831; married Andrew Jackson Stone, son of Raphael Stone and Mary Ingham. They live in Aurora, Ill., and have three children, Hugh, Lillie and Eliza, all born in Wilmot, Pa. 5. Emma Adelaide, born 25 Nov., 1840; married Dr. Volney Hornet. They reside at Camptown, Pa., and have Jessie, born at Sugar Run.
No child or grand-child of Eunice Horton Ingham has yet died.
VI. Sally, daughter of [Maj. John Horton and Deborah Terry], born 29 May, 1798; married by Thomas Ingham, Esq., to John Morrow, son of John Morrow and Nancy Gamble, and born in Dunlevey, in the Parish of Aughobog, County of Monohan, Ireland, 20 June, 1801. He sailed from Ireland 14 March, 1811, and landed at Amboy, on 15 April, 1811. He was an excellent farmer, owned a good farm in "The Bend" Asylum, now Wilmot Township, Bradford County, Pa. He was engaged in early life in merchandising, and later in life in raising and selling stock and grain. He possessed good business capacities, and was a man of much influence and activity, of good, sound, moral character, and well read in the sacred Scriptures, and in sentiment a thorough Old School Presbyterian or Covenanter, but never made a public profession. He was fond of company, and always took pains to make pleasant visits for his friends when they called on him.
Sally was a good housekeeper—industrious, economizing and a skillful worker, often taking the premium at the County Fair for domestic articles of her own manufacture. She possessed a wonderfully retentive memory—readily stating, not only incidents that occurred at any time during her life, but also dates—dates of births, marriages and deaths of all her acquaintances, even from her early childhood. She had a peculiar faculty of stating a fact or circumstance so connected with others as to leave no doubt of its truthfulness. She died in Wyalusing, 27 April, 1874, leaving to her family and friends the consoling belief that she exchanged the cares and sorrows of this mortal life for the full fruition of that world
"Where fragrant flowers eternal bloom,
And joys supreme are given;