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Res. Miss Mame - Erma INGRAM home on right (310 W. Sycamore St.) [Page 48 from 100 year book: “Ingram Residence This house, now the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Elwin INGRAM [1957 now son’s [2006]] was built by Abram SONGER for his bride, Margaret NELMS, when they came to Kinmundy from Xenia soon after their marriage in 1868. Mr. SONGER was a prisoner in Libby Prison during the Civil war, and was one of a group who tunneled out, and made their way home. Mrs. SONGER was a school teacher in Marion and Clay county during the war and received her education from the Southern Illinois Female College in Salem. With his brother, Giles, Mr. SONGER built the Songer mill which is nearby, from brick which they made themselves. This house originally was a small one-story affair but in 1893 the two story part was added in front and the whole house remodeled. After Mrs. Songer’s death, her daughter “Miss Mame” (Mrs James BROWN) lived there with her husband, father and aunt, Miss Mollie Songer, who was one of Kinmundy’s early storekeepers. After they were all gone it belonged to Bert GARRETT who sold to the INGRAMS. It has been remodeled and modernized by still has the look of the old place. Mrs. Ingram is a collector of antiques and has filled her home with them.”]

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