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INGRAM, ALLEN (?-1848). Allen Ingram, a combatant at the siege of Bexar,qv enlisted in the Texas army on December 31, 1835. He was with Col. James W. Fannin, Jr.,qv at Goliad, but he left Lt. Col. William Ward'sqv command on March 21, 1836, and so escaped the Goliad Massacre.qv After rejoining the main army in Capt. Moseley Baker'sqv company, he was badly wounded in the battle of San Jacinto.qv He was discharged on May 16, 1836. He received a bounty certificate for his service during the revolution. Ingram died in Washington County in 1848.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Harbert Davenport, "Men of Goliad," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 43 (July 1939). Sam Houston Dixon and Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Heroes of San Jacinto (Houston: Anson Jones, 1932). Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.

 

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