Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....INGALLS, Jonathan  October 2, 1843
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of The Sebewa Center Association   Volume 10   June 1975   Number 6; submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins
HERE LIES THE BODY OF JONATHAN INGALIS--REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER (From the 
scrapbook of Ella H. Gunn is found this clipping giving more information about 
Sebewa's Revolutionary War soldier.)
The body of Jonathan Ingalls lies in a field a short distance south of Sebewa 
Corners.  The stone marking the burial is placed close to the roadside where it 
may easily be read by those who pass.
The stone was prepared from native Ionia county rock by John Shell of Ionia and 
was designed with taste as well as with a thought to permanency.
Mrs. Levi Marshall, regent of the chapter (Stevens Thompson Mason Daughters of 
the American Revolution) led the ceremonies.  Following the reading of the 
ritual the purpose of the placing of the stone and some of the projects of the 
Chapter were told by Miss Kate L. Benedict, former regent.  She stated that the 
work done by the Chapter is conducted largely to preserve for posterity the 
interesting and historical facts and legends concerning Michigan and to make it 
as interesting a place through which to travel as many historic places in the 
east are today.
Mrs. Marshall formally presented the red granite monument to the public as Geer 
Smith and Marian Morse drew the cords which raised the American flag from the 
cut face of the rock.
At the grave of Jonathan Ingalls the ceremony was brief, but impressive.  Mrs. 
D. L. Spaulding, a granddaughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, read a brief 
account of his life before the assembled crowd.  According to the facts given 
by her, Ingalls was born in Exeter, N. H. May 4, 1762.
Entering the Revolutionary War at the same time that his father did, when the 
youth was but 13 years of age, he served throughout the entire war, which won 
for the colonies their freedom from the British government.  He was with the 
forces commanded by Gen. Benedict Arnold when, angered by what he thought was 
insufficient recognition for his valuable services at Saratoga and by a rebuke 
from George Washington later, he planned to surrender his forces to the British.
Mr. Ingalls served through the entire war.  He came to live in Sebewa Township 
about 1837.  He was previously married in 1785 to Abigail Cleveland, an aunt of 
the former President Grover Cleveland, of the United States.  Mr. Ingalls died 
October 2, 1843.
Rev. W. K. Spencer gave the principal address at the unveiling ceremony.  He 
pleaded for the type of loyalty to the nation which actuated Jonathan Ingalls 
to withstand the privations of the Revolutionary War.  He urged that people of 
today be more mindful of what our forefathers did to make the nation great and 
to strive to set an equally fine example to our descendants.


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