Parthenia A. DeLarsh (Ingels)
Born: 1846
Birthplace: IN
Death: 1936
Buried: Oak Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, Santa Clara County, CA
Spouse: William "Bruce" Ingels
Married: 1866 in IA
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Children: Katheryn "Kitty" Ingels (Gilliam), Clyde Larsh Ingels, Edith May Ingels (Heath)
Birthplace: IN
Death: 1936
Buried: Oak Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, Santa Clara County, CA
Spouse: William "Bruce" Ingels
Married: 1866 in IA
Father:
Mother:
Children: Katheryn "Kitty" Ingels (Gilliam), Clyde Larsh Ingels, Edith May Ingels (Heath)
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Santa Clara County Pioneer, Civil War Veteran. At the age of eighteen, Bruce Ingels enlisted in Company H, of the Twenty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry for three years. He was transferred to the Ninth Iowa Volunteer Veteran Infantry when they were home on furlough. He served under Grant, Sherman, and Logan until July 19, 1865, when he marched in review at Washington and he had the honor of marching with Sherman through Georgia. In 1865 he returned home to Iowa and the following year he married Parthenia A. DeLarsh. In 1871 he came out to California on a prospecting tour and he liked San Francisco so much that he stayed for two years and worked at his trade. The next year he returned to Iowa but in 1882 he moved with his family to Hollister where he took up agriculture. In 1890 he moved to the San Juan Valley to engage in orcharding and twelve years later he sold everything and moved to Gilroy. Proprietor of the Marble and Granite Works until his retirement in April 1922. For twelve years he served as secretary of the Improved Order of Redmen. Son of Samuel Ingels and Phoebe Rambo.