Executed
Sam Ingram
Sam Ingram was hanged in Coal Valley, Illinois, in April 1837, according to a Rock Island Argus account published in 1908. The paper attributes the hanging to Sheriff E. M. Beardsley. It says the execution took place at the same site where earlier executions had been carried out.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Sheriff E. M. Beardsley (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.