Charles Ingalls
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Charles Ingalls with his wife Caroline Ingalls
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| Born |
January 10, 1836 Cuba, New York, U.S.A. |
| Died | June 8, 1902 (aged 66) De Smet, South Dakota, U.S.A. |
| Resting place | De Smet Cemetery, De Smet, Kingsbury County, South Dakota, USA |
| Spouse(s) | Caroline Ingalls (1860–1902; his death) |
| Children |
Mary Ingalls (daughter) Laura Ingalls Wilder (daughter) Carrie Ingalls (daughter) Charles Frederick Ingalls (son) Grace Ingalls (daughter) |
| Parent(s) | Laura Colby Ingalls Lansford Ingalls |
Charles Phillip Ingalls (/ˈɪŋɡəlz/; January 10, 1836 – June 8, 1902) was the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House series of books. Ingalls is depicted as the character "Pa" in the books and the television series.
Ingalls was the second of nine children of Lansford Whiting Ingalls (1812–1896) and Laura Louise Colby Ingalls (1810–1883), both of whom appear (as "Grandpa" and "Grandma", respectively) in the book Little House in the Big Woods.
Lansford was born in Canada and was a descendant of Henry Ingalls (1627-1714), who was born in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony; Laura was born in Vermont and was a descendant of Edmund Rice, an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Lansford's mother was Margaret Delano, of the famed Delano family, and was a descendant of Mayflower passenger Richard Warren. In the 1840s, when Ingalls was a young boy, his family moved from New York to the tallgrass prairie of Campton Township, just west of Elgin, Illinois.
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