Name: Bertha Willamina Wieting
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: 8 May 1868
Marriage Date: 20 Mar 1887
Marriage Place: Tazewell, Illinois, USA
Father: Frederick Wieting
Mother: Emilie Wagener
Spouse: Charles E. Ingalls
Film Number: 001314688
Contributor: Linda Jackson (48777733)
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Bertha Willamina Weiting Ingalls was the Nation's oldest homesteader, having been given the deed to her land in March of 1893. She lived in a sod house then. In 1962 a ceremony in Colorado was planned for her being the Oldest Homesteader, but she died very shortly before the ceremony was scheduled.
Contributor: redhatmary (47203534)
Name: Bertha Willamina Wieting
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Date: 8 May 1868
Marriage Date: 20 Mar 1887
Marriage Place: Tazewell, Illinois, USA
Father: Frederick Wieting
Mother: Emilie Wagener
Spouse: Charles E. Ingalls
Film Number: 001314688
Contributor: Linda Jackson (48777733)
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Bertha Willamina Weiting Ingalls was the Nation's oldest homesteader, having been given the deed to her land in March of 1893. She lived in a sod house then. In 1962 a ceremony in Colorado was planned for her being the Oldest Homesteader, but she died very shortly before the ceremony was scheduled.
Contributor: redhatmary (47203534)
Gravesite Details
Buried: 1962 (4/1/1986, Source: City of Colo Spgs cemetery data 3/14/09)
Family Members
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Walter Elsworth Ingalls Sr
1890–1992
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Clarence Everett Ingalls
1892–1971
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Katherine M Ingalls Wilcoxen
1894–1978
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Fred Leigh Ingalls
1896–1992
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Kenneth L Ingalls
1898–1978
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Ida Marie Ingalls Henry
1900–2002
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Grace Dorothy Ingalls
1902–1914
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Wilson L. Ingalls
1904–1989
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Verne Irving Ingalls
1906–1968
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Ralph S Ingalls
1909–1924
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