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William was born 5 years after Shays's Rebellion, (again an uprising, because of the actions of Boston aristocrats who basically kept the farmers in western Massachusetts debt ridden). Captain Daniel Shays led between 1,000 and 2,000 pitchfork armed farmers in a march on Boston. The revolution collapsed after they had captured the court houses at Northampton and Worcester, and moved on the United arsenal at Springfield. The times were still unsettled. William again changed the family name. This time, to the spelling that remains to this day with our branch of the family. He was William Bachelder, he was born in either Loudon or Canterbury, N.H.. William was 21 at the start of the war of 1812. There is no record of his service in that war. William married Mary Bailey, the daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Woodman) Bailey. Mary was four years younger than William. They were married in Weare, N.H.. Their children were: John, born 3/7/1817 and died 7/1/1906; Betsey; Jacob Bailey; Eliza Ann; James McKean; William Harrison; George Evans; Walter Ingalls, born 3/9/1837 in Weare; and finally Charles Wallace. William is described, "... variously a lumberman and a blacksmith, successful enough to provide his son John an academic education.". William was listed as a taxpayer in Weare in 1830, but not in 1820 or in 1840. Richard Bailey, Mary's ancestor, came to Lynn, Mass. from Southhampton, England on the "Bevis". William and Mary lived in Sunapee Lake and Weare, New Hampshire. John Bachelder is recognized in the Smithsonian Institution as the inventor of the slant needle bar that he sold to Singer Sewing Machine Company, they used that design in their machines for many years, and I believe have just recently returned to it, calling it an innovation over their antiquated upright design. Amazing! (See more on this through the link on the home page- John Bachelder's Patent.) Walter Ingalls Bachelder married Lucy Howard, the daughter of Joseph B. and Lucy (Sheldon) Howard. She was born in Wilton, N.H. and died in New Salem, Mass.. Their children were: Carrie E. who never married, born on 10/29/1865 and died 12/19/1938; George W., born 3/19/1867; Nellie M. who died young, 8/31/1869; a daughter who died young enough to not be named, 6/25/1871; Katie M. who never married, born 8/28/1872 and died 1/5/1966; Frank Howard, born 2/20/1878. Apparently the Civil War didn't disrupt Walter Ingalls' life, as evidenced by the birth records above. Aunt Katie, my great aunt, was born in Ipswich, N.H.. She taught school in New Salem, Whately, and South Deerfield, Mass. She was a caretaker type person, demonstrated by the fact that she acted as a "mother" to Charles Walter Bachelder after the death of his mother. She lived with her brother Frank and his wife, at first caring for her invalid sister Carrie, and then assisting my grandfather, Frank, as his secretary in his sheet metal cabinet business. She was a confidant, friend, and companion to my grandmother, Gertrude. Ever the school teacher, she preferred games with an educational slant, such as "Anagrams", "Pick" (basically anagrams using a toy mallet with a sticky face to 'pick' the face down anagram letter), and memory or observation games (favorites for drives). But then again Aunt Katie enjoyed "Parchessi" as well. I never saw her play any card games. Aunt Kate always found a way to make the mundane every day tasks seem more interesting with sayings such as "wash and wipe together, live in peace forever". She, also, had a puritan side to her that caused her to be upset at my father when she found out that he had secretly taken a picture of her hanging out the 'unmentionables' on the clothes line farthest from street view. Her pique, while visible, was not malicious at all. She just let him know that he needed to grow up, and then she went on, business as usual. Aunt Kate thoroughly savored breakfast. She always had the same thing, which was ritualistic to an extent. She had cream of wheat, white toast and coffee. The white toast was always broken off in spoon size bites and dropped one at a time into her cream of wheat, to be eaten simultaneously with it. The toast and cream of wheat always seemed to come out even. The flavor from the white toast seemed to enhance the flavor of the cream of wheat. That was Aunt Katie. -10-