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Note: From: Richard M. Straw [rstraw@cdsnet.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 4:55 PM
To: tom@mail.cbsva.com
Subject: Divorces

Hi Tom,
Thanks for your letter. I saw the information about the Wheeler cole & Eunice Ingalls divorce in the gedcom you uploaded to ancestry.com, which I downloaded as 10773.exe (the self-extracting zip version). I had dumped the file, but just reloaded it again and find the same error- in fact, when I look at other families, each one I looked at had a note that the principals were divorced. A glitch somewhere in the works, clearly.
I am now using The Master Genealogist v.4.0, but am a former user of Ancestral quest, which you apparently are using (or where, at least). I have not had this problem with any other gedcoms I have taken from ancestry.com.
We are apparently related somewhere along the line, maybe by two sightly different routes (I have not followed your line down yet.). I descend from the Ebenezer Ingalls/Elizabeth Wheeler marriage (1735) through their son, Henry Ingalls, who married Sybil Carpenter in 1761. That one is proved, I believe.
I also think I am descended from Wheeler Cole and Eunice Ingalls, who I make to be fourth? cousins through their daughter Lydia, who married Henry Ingallsâ€™ son Rufus in 1791. My evidence is more circumstantial here, as I have not been able to find the birth records for the Wheeler & Eunice Cole family. Wheeler was in the 1790 census for Royalston, MA, had lived previously in Richmond, NH (just across the state line), and perhaps had also lived earlier in Royalston after coming from Rehoboth, MA. Henry and Rufus Ingalls and their families moved to Worcester, Otsego Co, NY, about 1793, and I find that Wheeler Cole either accompanied or followed them there (he sold his Royalston property in 1793), and then apparently followed them further west to Concord, Erie (earlier Niagara) Co., NY. In 1790 the census lists him with seven women of whom I assume at least one was his wife. Adding to the evidence is the marriage of Irena Cole to Lyman Drake (as his 2d wife, ca. 1798), who also later turned up in Concord, NY, and had a son (among others) whom they named Wheeler Cole Drake (I have seen his gravestone there). In the 1800 census for Otsego Co Wheeler still had four women with him under 45 and a young male who I assume was a grandson. Anyway, that explains my interest in Wheeler Cole and your line, as well as explaining why I queried about divorces that apparently did not occur.
Good hunting,
Dick

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Richard M. Straw
Talent, OR, USA
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Given Name: Wheeler

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Ingalls, Eunice (b. , d. ?)

Given Name: Eunice

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Cole, Lydia (b. 16 SEP 1754, d. ?)

Given Name: Lydia

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