Clark County
Jonas Howard Ingram, Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy
“Lieutenant Commander Jonas Howard Ingram is the oldest of three brothers in a family
of four who chose a naval career, making a record for the family that has no equal in the
history of United States Naval Academy. It had beaten all records for one family; they've
also beaten the records for efficiency and competency and have been, all of them, at the
head of their classes. All of them fine athletes, of fine physical development and genuine
Naval modesty, of sterling American character, they have engaged the attention and
elicited to regard of those who have seen them grow to manhood and their Naval careers
have been watched with interest. The city of Jeffersonville is justly proud of the
splendid young men in whom it is embodied the highest type of American manhood.”
Jonas Howard Ingram, Lieutenant Commander
Homer L. Ingram, Senior Lieutenant, Goldstar
William Austin Ingram, Ensign, Pacific Fleet
Homer L. Ingram, K-1 Submarines
“Nothing could have been farther from his natural taste and proclivities then to enter
upon the Naval career, but he entered the Academy without protest, and he made the best
of his Naval training. Lieutenant Homer L. Ingram was the second son of William T. and
Anna L. Ingram and was graduated from the Jeffersonville High School, Culver Military
Academy and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He displayed great aptitude for
mechanical engineering, and after six months overseas training in submarine work at
New London, he went overseas in late fall of 1917 attached to the K-1 submarine. He
had a hard and strenuous time overseas. In March 1918, he returned, much broken down
in health, but after a rest of three months, he resumed his duties at Washington DC under
rear Admiral William S. Benson, USN President of Emergency Fleet Corporation in
which duty he was employed at the time of his death. He was stricken with influenza
which developed into double pneumonia and he died at the Naval Hospital, Washington
DC September 27, 1918.”
Fred Beverly Vawter, Infantry, Italian Medal of Valor
Awarded for exploit at Tagliamento River 11/3/1918
“Also spent some time in the Commons , Austria & Cattaro Dalmatia. (Mandres, France,
a quaint rural village in the High Department of the Marne near Chaumont.”