Charlie and Coty (Beulah Dakota Bradshaw) Ingram were the parents of a large family of 11 children, whose descendants now number in the hundreds and stretch from Maine to California. Raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge of western North Carolina, they were self-sufficient farmers, moonshiners, mid-wives, coal miners, and lumber jacks. They traveled with the Ritter Lumber Company through Caldwell County, North Carolina, southwest Virginia, and West Virginia, but always returned to their home place on the Cold Water Creek looking out on Apple Hole Knob. Their roots go back through the first settlers of North Carolina and include pioneers that traveled south on the Great Wagon Road from the Mid-Atlantic, settlers from the Tidewater of Virginia, and German and Dutch immigrants from colonial Pennsylvania and New York. Their ancestors include Revolutionary War soldiers, members of both the Union Army and the Confederate States Army, sometimes from the same family, and many others who served our nation during their lives. The Ingram family had a colorful history, its members made moonshine, were Colorado goldminers, came from a few wood colts, were renowned horsemen, and occasionally found themselves on the wrong side of jailhouse bars. Their southern origins imbued them with a deep faith in their Creator, the attribute of hospitality, and a closeness with family, which exists to today.