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Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 page 96-97
Flavilla8 Ingersoll (Chester,7 Josiah,6 Richard,5 Richard,4 Richard,3 John,2 Richard1), born Dec. 18, 1826 at Plattsburg, N. Y.; m. Dec. 16, 1841 at Plainfield, Ill., Sterling Alford, who died June 23, 1846 of smallpox in Plainfield, Ill.; m. 2d, May 27, 1848 in California, William Eddy; m. 3d, Feb. 22, 1854, Winright Willis, born, 1834; died May 7, 1896.
Plainfield paper: "Mrs. Flavilla Willis celebrated her 82nd birthday Friday at her home on Eastern Ave. in Plainfield, Ill., and was the recipient of many tokens of remembrance. As usual she gave a dinner which was prepared by her own hands and served with the same delicacy.
"When she was three years old she crossed Lake Champlain on the ice when going from New York to Vermont where her father went to work as a millwright. Here they lived until 1832, where they bought the whole township of Plainfield for $1,25 an acre. Her father laid out the town and gave it its present name, afterwards giving the land for the building of the Methodist and the aptist churches.
On the long journey with her father to California, the women made their own butter, baked salt-rising bread, picked berries which resembled the black currant. They found plenty of game, such as buffalo, deer, antelope, and elk; also fish. They would skin a buffalo or deer and get the tenderloin and cook it and leave the rest behind for the Indians or Mormons.
"In California they learned from the Spaniards to use a flat board in the water, and a root called amolia which acts like a soap to do their washing. In May, 1849, gold was discovered and they gathered lots of the gold dust and kept it in a sack.
"Mrs. Willis is a member of the Eastern Star; a member of the Royal Neighbors; also a member of the Rebekahs. She is an honorary member of the Pioneers of California; also an honorary member of the Old Settler's Union."
Children of first marriage:
i Walter Alford, b. Apr. 15, 1842, Wheatland, Ill.; d. Oct. 184
Wheatland, Ill.
ii Abner Alford, b. June 22, 1843, Wheatland, Ill.; d. Aug. 22, 1843,
Wheatland, Ill.
iii Harvey Alford, b. Jan. 31, 1845, Wheatland, Ill.; d. June 2, 1861,
Louisville, Ky.
iv Phebe Alford, b. Jan. 15, 1847, Plainfield, Ill.; d. June 2, 1867,
Plainfield, Ill.
Children of second marriage:
v Nellie Eddy, b. May 15, 1849, San Jos
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