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Charles Phillip Ingalls (/ ˈ ɪ ŋ ɡ əl z /; January 10, 1836 – June 8, 1902) was an American pioneer, farmer, government official, musician, and carpenter who was the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House series of books.
Ingalls was a descendant of the Delano family, the ancestral family of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] One paternal ancestor, Edmund Ingalls, from Skirbeck , Lincolnshire , England, emigrated to America , settling in Lynn, Massachusetts . [ 6 ]
The story of Little House in the Big Woods, revolves around the life of the Ingalls family. The family includes mother Caroline Ingalls, father Charles Ingalls, elder daughter Mary Amelia Ingalls, and younger daughter (and protagonist) Laura Ingalls Wilder. [29] Also in the story, though not yet born historically, is Laura's baby sister Carrie.
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
Diabetes ran in the Ingalls family and Laura, Carrie, and Grace all died from the complications of the disease, with Dow being the first Ingalls sibling to succumb. She is buried near the Ingalls family plot at De Smet Cemetery in De Smet, South Dakota; her husband is buried next to her. The couple had no children.
'Little House on the Prairie' Little House on the Prairie was released in 1974 and became a major success for NBC. The show, set in Minnesota in the 1800s, tells the story of the Ingalls family ...
Back in 1974, viewers were introduced to the Ingalls family on the hit historical drama. Based on The Little House book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder , the show followed the Ingalls clan while ...
Mary Amelia Ingalls (January 10, 1865 – October 20, 1928) was born near the town of Pepin, Wisconsin. She was the first child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls and older sister of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder , known for her Little House book series.