Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . ? MRS. ISRAEL IXGALLS OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 631 that occurred in the great cholera epidemic that ravished the country. His widowsubsequently crossed the plains to Oregon and in later years made her home withher sister, Mrs. J. V. B. Butler, her death occurring in March, 1871. It was in 1852 that Theodore P. Ingalls accompanied his mother on the longjourney to the northwest. He was then a youth of sixteen years. They madethe trip with ox teams, there being fourteen wagons in the party
Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . ? MRS. ISRAEL IXGALLS OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 631 that occurred in the great cholera epidemic that ravished the country. His widowsubsequently crossed the plains to Oregon and in later years made her home withher sister, Mrs. J. V. B. Butler, her death occurring in March, 1871. It was in 1852 that Theodore P. Ingalls accompanied his mother on the longjourney to the northwest. He was then a youth of sixteen years. They madethe trip with ox teams, there being fourteen wagons in the party. Cholera brokeout en route and twenty-one members of the party died ere they reached theirdestination. Mr. Ingalls and his mother first took up their abode in Clackamascounty, near Oregon City, Oregon, where a brother of our subject had precededthem. Here Theodore P. Ingalls worked at various occupations, much of histime being spent in the timber, in getting out saw logs and in splitting rails. Healso worked in the sawmills and for a time he was in the mines and thus his expe-riences were broad and varied,
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