Elizabeth
("Eliza") Ingram was the daughter of William and Mary Ingram, born abt. 1815 in Illinois. She married
Alexander Fancher, the son of Isaac
and Anne (Tully) Fancher, on 12 May 1836 in Coles County, Illinois. Residing in Clay County, Illinois after their
marriage, she and her family moved to Missouri for a few years before
settling in Piney Township, Carroll County, Arkansas. She and
Captain Alexander Fancher had nine children:
Hampton,
William,
Mary,
Thomas,
Martha, twins
Margaret A. and
Sarah G., Christopher Carson and
Tryphenia D. Fancher. With her husband, she and her children had made
one documented trip to California in 1850, and they might have made a
second trip there around 1853. Eliza, her husband Alexander, and
seven of their nine children died in the 1857 Mountain Meadows
Massacre in Utah Territory. Her two youngest children, Christopher
"Kit" Carson Fancher, born abt. 1853 and Tryphenia D. Fancher,
born 10 November 1855, survived the Massacre
and were returned to Arkansas in 1859. Although her widowed mother was
living at the time, and she had eight siblings, Eliza's two surviving
children were raised in Arkansas by her husband's first cousin Hampton
Bynum Fancher and his wife Eliza Olin (McKennon), who were childless
at the time. Elizabeth (Ingram) Fancher was 42 years old when she
died.
© 2008 A.C. Wallner for the Mountain Meadows Association. All rights
reserved
Inscription:
IN MEMORIAM
IN THE VALLEY BELOW BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 7 AND 11, 1857, A COMPANY OF
MORE THAN 120 ARKANSAS EMIGRANTS LED BY CAPT. JOHN T. BAKER AND CAPT.
ALEXANDER FANCHER WAS ATTACKED WHILE EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. THIS
EVENT IS KNOWN IN HISTORY AS THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
ELIZA (INGRUM) FANCHER, 32*
* This is an error on the 1990 Mountain Meadows Dan Sill Hill
Monument. She was actually 42 years old when she died.
Please note that the names of the victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows
Massacre that appear here are those who we have personally researched
and verified as actual victims. In some cases this list will differ
from the names that were inscribed on the 1990 Monument on Dan Sill
Hill.
Leave virtual flowers - MMA
FIND A GRAVE MEMORIAL
FOR
ELIZABETH (INGRAM) FANCHER
