Jeannette's take on life: Caroline Celestia Ingalls Swanzey

Friday, June 6, 2014

Caroline Celestia Ingalls Swanzey

Caroline Celestia Ingalls Swanzey

[1870-1946]

Caroline Celestia Ingalls

              Alias: Carrie
             Born: August 3, 1870 Independence Montgomery County Kansas
             Died: June 2, 1946 BH General Hospital Rapid City Keystone, Pennington County South
                                 Dakota

Spouse: David Nevins Swanzey

              Parents: Charles Phillips Ingalls, Caroline Lake Quiner
             Occupation: Housewife/News Paper business/ Typesetter Writer
             Cause of Death: Diabetes Coma
             Date of Burial: June 7, 1946
              Death Certificate #: 229736
             Age at Death: YRS: 75 MOS: 10 DYS: 2
             Interment: De Smet Cemetery De Smet Kingsbury County South Dakota

South Dakota Death Index, 1905-1955 about Caroline I Swanzey

Name: Caroline I Swanzey [Caroline C Swanzey] Certificate Number: 229736 Death Day: 2 Death Month: Jun Death Year: 1946 County: Pennington

Source:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&gsfn=&gsln=Swanzey&sx=&f17=&f16=&rg_f15__date=&rs_f15__date=0&f14=Pennington&gskw=&prox=1&db=sddeaths&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&pcat=34&fh=2&h=216870&recoff=9+22&ml_rpos=3

Obituary for Carrie Ingalls Swanzey

Keystone. June 5 - Funeral services for Mrs. Caroline Ingalls Swanzey will be held at the Keystone Congregational church Thursday at 2 p.m., daylight savings time. The Order of Eastern Star will conduct the rights and Rev. Carl Loocke will assist. Burial will be in De Smet.

Mrs. Swanzey came with her parents to Dakota Territory and they settled at De Smet. She worked on several small newspapers in the state before coming here about 35 years ago as an employee of the paper and later married David N. Swanzey. He died in 1938.

She was active in church and community affairs and recently received a 50-year life membership in the Eastern Star here. Survivors include a sister, Laura Ingalls Wilder of Mansfield, Mo., and Rose Wilder Lane, a niece, both widely known authors, and a stepdaughter, Mary.

She died Sunday in a Rapid City hospital. Funeral arrangements were made by Behrens Mortuary of Rapid City.

02 Jun 1946

Source:

http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/research/carrieingallsobituary.html

Carrie Ingalls Swanzey - Biography

Caroline Celestia Ingalls, or better known as Carrie, was the third child of Charles and Caroline Ingalls and was born on August 3, 1870, in Montgomery County, Kansas. Carrie was actually born during the events which occurred in Little House on the Prairie. Because Little House in the Big Woods had Baby Carrie, and Little House on the Prairie happened after, Laura could not write around this fact. So Carrie travels with the family to Kansas, even though technically she would not have been born yet.

It is not until the books are based in De Smet, South Dakota, that interaction between Carrie and Laura occurs, without the representation of Carrie being as "Baby Carrie" as she is in the earlier books. After finishing school, Carrie worked for the newspaper in De Smet, then later onto larger newspapers.

Carrie met David Swanzey in the Black Hills. David was a widower with two young children, Mary and Harold, and they marries on August 1, 1912 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Carrie raised David's children, and on June 2, 1946, Carrie died in Rapid City, South Dakota, leaving her older sister Laura as the last surviving member of the Ingalls family.

Some of Carrie's possessions are on display at various Laura Ingalls Wilder historical sites and museums.

Source:

http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/family/carrieingalls.html

Findagrave.com

Folk and literary figure. Born in Montgomery County, Kansas. the third child of Charles and Caroline Ingalls, she was known throughout her life as Carrie. After finishing school, she became a typesetter for the De Smet News, then The Keystone Recorder and The Hill City Star. Like her father, she was afflicted with a wanderlust that led her to visit Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Missouri before settling briefly in Boulder, Colorado. Though unusual for a single woman, she then filed on a homestead claim in Top Bar, South Dakota. She met and married mine owner David N. Swanzey, a widower with two children in 1912. Her husband was one of the committee that recommended Mount Rushmore to sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, her stepson would be one of the many excavators on the project. She was an enthusiastic supporter of her sister, Laura's efforts to write her ‘Little House' series of books, and helped by sharing memories of their childhood. She died suddenly in Pennington County, South Dakota at the age of 75, and was interred in the family plot in De Smet.