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Charged With Killing And Burning Infant.

Laura Infinger, a white woman, is in the county jail, charged with a most brutal and horrible crime, that of killing her infant child of only a day or so old, afterwards making an effort to burn it up in a trash pile.

The crime occurred Dec. 6th, at or near Paul's Still in the western part of the county.

The Advertiser has been able to secure only meager information concerning the revolting crime with which this woman is charged. It is alleged, however, that she killed the child after its birth and hid the body by some manner in the room and later endeavored to completely destroy it by burning it up in a trash pile. The latter plan did not succeed, however, and parties in passing the place discovered the badly charred body lying in the ashes. Officers were notified and an inquest was held with the result that the woman was sent to jail. The woman was arraigned before county Judge Tew yesterday afternoon and entered a plea of not guilty. Her preliminary hearing will be held next Friday, at which time a large number of witnesses will be examined and the true facts made known concerning what is at present a deep mystery.

Source: Holmes County Advertiser, Bonifay, Florida, Saturday, January 3, 1914
Transcribed by Mona Spears, March 1999

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Alyssa Leigh Ingalls, age 6, of Westville, passed away on Monday, March 1, 1999 at Wiregrass Hospital in Geneva, Alabama.

Funeral services were held on March 4 at Poplar Head Methodist Church with the Rev Mike Woodham officiating. Burial followed in the Poplar Head Cemetery with Sims Funeral Home directing.

Survivors include her parents Travis and Sheila Ingalls, both of Westville; grandfather Lawrence Ingalls of Westville; grandmother Mary Ingalls of Westville; grandfather Sammy Simmons of Westville; grandmother Slice Simmons of Westville; great-grandmother Mathel Scott of Westville; and great-grandmother Voncille Jankovich of Butler, Pennsylvania.

Source: Holmes County Advertiser, 10 March 1999, Page 19