The Faces of the Golden Strip is excited to share Trey Ingram with everyone…
I am a husband of 17 years and father of eight children, the oldest of whom is 12. I’ve lived in Greenville County since 2008 and in the Golden Strip area since 2018. My wife is amazing, hilarious and entertaining on Instagram @kelliingram. We homeschool our children on a 15 acre mini-farm. We love Jesus and do our best to love others the way He loves us. I am real estate attorney at Holliday Ingram Law Firm but also love practicing adoption law. My wife and I advocated for numerous changes to foster care and adoption law over the years and were invited for the ceremonial signing of an adoption bill with Gov. McMaster after a heartbreaking experience we had with the foster care system.
Q: Please tell us a little bit about your family.
My wife, @Kelliingram, and I have been married 17 years and have eight children, ages 0-12yrs, seven girls and one son. We have experienced infertility, natural childbirth, foster care and adoption.
Q: Please tell us about your current, past, or future career. What do you love most about what you do?
I run a residential real estate law firm; we conduct closings for clients buying, selling or refinancing their residential real estate. I love the opportunity to serve neighbors in our community achieving part of the American dream: home ownership.
Q: What are a couple of your favorite restaurants in our community?
The Warehouse at Vaughn’s is our favorite date-night spot; it’s a fun atmosphere with lots of food/drink options. Lunch for us is most often either Shortfield’s or Henry’s Smokehouse; but that may soon change now that we have a Sully’s Steamers.
Q: How long have you lived or worked in our community?
We moved to Reedy Fork Road in 2018 after living in downtown Greenville for a decade. We love having more outdoor space for our children to runaround enjoying nature and animals.
Q: Who is the most interesting person you’ve met here in our community?
The owners of Exchange Coffee Co. are pretty amazing; they are foster/adoptive parents and created a business specifically to support local foster care and adoption agencies.
Q: If you could travel anywhere in the world right now, where would it be and why?
If it were financially feasible and also safe, neither of which are presently true, I would love for our family to travel to Israel. There is so much history, significance and beauty there, I think we could spend weeks and weeks and still not see it all. Personally, I would love to experience and see points of reference from the scriptures.
Q: What advice would you give to people?
Get married and have children. Both are invaluable, lifelong blessings you should never regret.
Q: What is something on your bucket list?
To complete an Ironman triathlon, which is a 2.4 mi. swim, 112 mi. bike, 26.2 mi. run. I’ve done two different halves, now I just need to put them together.
Q: What current or former local business makes you the most nostalgic about our community?
Bennett’s Antiques now known as Catnip Antiques because the items in there remind me of childhood, though they were antiques even then and Grandma’s house.
Q: If you could choose anyone that is alive today and not a relative; with whom would you love to have lunch? Why? And where locally would y’all meet for this lunch?
Clarence Thomas. As a fellow attorney, I think it would be fascinating to learn from his story and his significant and prominent legal career. I’d ask him to choose any of the three aforementioned lunch spots!
Q: What is your favorite thing or something unique about our community?
I love the train tracks through downtown Simpsonville. Obviously, that had a lot to do with the growth and success of the town. It’s a neat historical feature that continues in use/operation to this day. My kids love it when the train rolls through.
Q: Where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years?
I expect to continue to be living and working here. We live on 15 acres of property shared with my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law and her family, three houses fenced in together. So we won’t be moving anytime soon. We’d love and plan for this to be our “forever home.”
Q: (Even for friends or family), what is something interesting that most people don’t know about you?
I sleep with three pillows: one under my head, one under/between my knees, and one on top of my head. LOL. It was a habit born out of necessity in college and now it’s just the most comfortable way.
Q: What is the most beautiful place you have ever been?
The British Virgin Islands. My wife and I and another couple celebrated our tenth anniversaries there with her aunt/uncle captaining a catamaran. It is certainly the closest to paradise I’ve ever seen.
Q: Who inspires you to be better?
My wife and children of course. Daily I am motivated and inspired to do better and be better for them and their sakes and our futures together.
Q: Describe what “neighbor” means to you?
A neighbor is a friendly person, whether a stranger or not, who calls our community home and cares about all her inhabitants as demonstrated through words and deeds.
Q: Finally, what 3 words or phrases come to mind when you think of the word HOME?
Let’s stay home. We love our home and cherish the times spent there and intentionally protect our time there by not committing to a bunch of activities elsewhere.
