Stanley L. Ingalls (2017)

Stanley (Stub) Ingalls followed in the long line of Ingalls ancestors in their involvement in Greenville area affairs. Born in 1892 to early setter Jacob Ingalls’s grandson Truman and Truman’s wife Carrie Spalding, Stanley grew up in Norton Hill where he lived his whole life. He and first wife Eleanor Goff bore four children—Edna (Norman Adams), Randall (“Buddy”; Cornelia Yeomans), Claribel (Len Gardiner), and Walter (Shirley Burnett, Donna Winans). Stub grew up in a changing world and adapted to it, starting as a farmer, a logger, a teamster, before founding GNH Lumber, still a mainstay in the Greenville area.

Stanley was a member of the Norton Hill Methodist Church; the James M. Austin Lodge, member and president of the GCS Board of Education, charter member of Rotary, president of the Greenville Cemetery Association, local treasurer of the Salvation Army, charter member of the Greenville Fire Company.

He served as Greenville’s Superintendent of Highways from 1925-1937 before serving as its Supervisor from 1942-1947. In between, and during, Stub was a constant force in town as almost everyone needed lumber and hardware supplies.

Stanley’s death in 1969 ended a life that accomplished much, not only for his family but also for his community he loved.

Before Stanley died, he said to son Walter that he was the richest man in the cemetery – he had given away all his money but he had the love of his family and the respect of the community.

 - by Don Teator, Greenville Town Historian