​SARAH ELIZABETH FIELDING, a prominent member of the Woman's Relief Corps of Somerville, is a native of Andover, Mass. The daughter of Charles Nathan and Hannah Ja(|uith (Abbot) Ingalls, she is a descendant in the ninth generation of Edmund Ingalls, who, with his brother Francis, came from England to Massachusetts in 1629, and in 1638 went to Lynn, where they had a grant of one hundred and twenty acres of land. They were among the first settlers of that now prosperous city, and were successful as farmers, stock-raisers, and tanners of leather. The home of Francis was in that part of Lynn which is now Swampscott. He finally removed to Boston, where he died, leaving no male heirs. Edmund Ingalls, as stated in Lewis's History of Lynn, was drowned in March, 1648, by falling with his horse through the old Saugus River Bridge on Boston Street. His estate was valued at one hundred and thirty-five pounds, eight shillings, ten pence.

He had nine children: and Mrs. Fielding's father descended from Henry,² the sixth child, who had the house and lot "bought of Goodwin West" and land in what is now the city of Chelsea, Mass. Henry,² born in 1627, married July 6, 1653, Mary Osgood, of Andover, Mass. She died in 1686, and he afterward married Sarah, widow of George Abbot. He had twelve children. The second child, Henry,³ born in December, 1656, died at Andover in 1699. He married June 6, 168S, Abigail, daughter of John Emery, Jr., of Newbury, Mass. Francis,⁴ their fourth child, was born in December, 1694, and died January 26, 1759. His first wife was Lydia Ingalls, his cousin, whom he married in 1719. After her death in 1743, he married Lydia Stevens, of Andover. He had eleven children. Francis,⁵ the fifth child, who was born January 26, 1731, and died April 3, 1795, married November 12, 1754, Eunice Jennings, and .settled in Andover. They had nine children, the fifth being Jonathan,⁶ who was born February 25, 1762, and died July 9, 1837. He married in 1792 Sarah Berry, of Andover. Francis,⁷ born August IS, 1793, the eldest of their four chiklren, dk'd at his home in North Andover in November, 1850. He married in 1815 Elizabeth Barker Foster, daughter of Nathan⁶ Foster, of North Andover, Mass. Nathan⁶ was a descendant, through Stephen,⁵ John,⁴ Ephraim,³ Abraham,² of Reginald¹ Foster, an early settler of Ijxswich, Mass. (For further particulars concerning Reginald and other Foster immigrants in colonial days, and their descendants, see " Foster Genealogy," by F. C. Pierce.) John Foster, printer, of Boston, was son of another early colonist, Hopestil¹ Foster, of Dorchester; and Elizabeth Foster, who married Isaac Vergoose in 1692, was the daughter of Captain William¹ Foster, of Charlestown.

The second child of Francis and Elizabeth B. (Foster) Ingalls was Charles Nathan,⁸ born in North Andover, Mass., July 9, 1820. Enlisting in 1861, he served in the Union army sixteen months, when he was honorably discharged ​ on account of illness resulting from sunstroke at Ball's Bluff. He was an ardiitect and buikler, and previous to the Civil War had charge of the construction of important works on the Connecticut River and of public build- ings elsewhere. In 1864 he superintended government work in Tennessee, and was pres- ent at the battle of Nashville.

Returning to Danvers, he was appointed master carpenter of the Eastern Railroad, which position he held fifteen years, when he accepted a similar appointment on the North- ern Pacific Railroad, antl removed to Dakota. He subsequently went to the Yellowstone Park, and erected the large hotel at Mammoth Hot Sjirings. He consti'ucted m.any bridges and buiklings on the branches of the Northern Pacific Railroad. His last work was on the Duluth and Manitoba Railroad, with head- quarters at Hawlev, Minn., where he died in 1886.

He was a prominent Free Mason, a member of Amity Lodge and Holten Royal Arch Chap- ter, of Danvers, of Pilgrim Connnandery, of Lowell, Mass., and was also a thirty-.second degree Mason, Scottish Rite. His funeral was conducted by the Rev. Ceorge J. Sanger, of Essex, and he was buried at Danvers with .Ma- sonic honors. He married . Hannah .Jaquith Abbot, of Andover, by whom he had four chil- dren, namely: Sarah l"]lizabeth, the subject of this sketch; George W.: Frank; and Albert. His wife died in 1868, and he married Mi.ss Mary J. Morse, of Andover, Me., by whom he had one son, Charles.

It may be added as worthy of mention that Jonathan Ingalls, grandfather of Charles Nathan, was brother to Theodore Ingalls, grandfather of the late John J. Ingalls, of Kansas, United States Senator.

Sarah Elizabeth Ingalls was born in Andover, November 8, 1846. Her parents .subset [uently removed to Danvers, and she was graduated from the high school of that town. She mar- ried July 9, 1874, George Washington Fielding, and settled in Bangor, Me. They have also lived in Connecticut and New York, and in Charlestown, Mass., but have resided in Som- erville for the past twenty-five years. Mrs. Fielding, on her mother's side, descended from the Jaquiths of Billerica, the hoase in which her grandmother was born and married having been usetl as a garri.son house. Two of the family united with the old church in Charlestown, in 1649.

Mrs. Fielding is a member of the Prospect Hill Congregational Church, and is deeply in- terested in all its work. She is deaconess of the church, has been a teacher in its Sunilay- school during the past eleven years, and is an active worker in the home missionary depart- ment, of which she has charge. She is also vice-president of the Woman's Auxiliary, anil conducts monthly meetings, which have been atldressed by prominent speakers. The various charities and missions connected with the local church have been aidetl by her efforts, and she has contributed to the educational and other enterprises of the denomination at large, in all of which she takes a special interest.

When the Associated Charities of Somerville began its beneficent work, Mrs. Fielding ac- cejjted an invitation to serve as agent for Ward Two, and for nearly four years devoted her time and energy to its tluties without compen- sation. With heartfelt sympathy for the un- fortunate, anil with excellent judgment and ability, she contlucted the work in a zealous manner; and regrets were expressed when she felt obliged to decline a reappointment.

In 1878 a Relief Corjjs was organized in Som- erville by Willard C. Kinsley Post, No. 139, G. A. R., and Mrs. Fiekling was chosen secre- tary, serving until the corps was reorganized, three years later, as one of the corps of the Department of Massachusetts, W. R. C, when she was elected to the office of treasurer. She has continued her membershi]5, and is inter- ested in all Grand Army work, having inher- ited a patriotic spirit from her father, who joined the Andrew Sharp-shooters in August, 1861. She was a member of the Committee on Information during National Convention week in Boston in 1890, and is a member of the Press Committee for the National Convention in Boston in 1904.

Mrs. Fielding's husband, who is a member and past officer of Willard C. Kinsley Post, No. 139, G. A. R., enlisted in Company A, Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, connnanded by ​Colonel Francis L. Lee, and was in continuous active service in the campaigns in North Carolina under General Foster and General Burnside in 1862 and 1863.

Mr. and Mrs. Fielding reside on Berkeley Street, near Sprhig Hill, Somcrville. They have no children.