Here on the North Bank (Childs’) road, on Wednesday, June 23, 1852, their daughter, four-year-old Elva Ingram, died. The cause of her death is unknown. On that day eighteen-year-old James Akin, Jr., wrote: “Travel 12 miles very hilly bad roads pine and cedar bluffs—cloudy rainy weather, Elva Ingram died. Camp in good place. Plenty wood no water.”

There were seven more deaths in the Richey-Ingram-Akin wagon train, which reached the Williamette Valley late in October 1852. Research and signing by Oregon-California Trails Association, funding by Dr. Jack Ingram and Family, Medford, Oregon 1987.