Caroline Ingalls#Freddie Ingalls

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Caroline was born 15 miles west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the Town of Brookfield, Waukesha County.{{Cite news|title=Young historian traces residence of author's mom|date=12 December 1996|work=The Journal Times}} She was the fifth of seven children of Henry and Charlotte Quiner. Her brothers were Joseph, Henry, and Thomas, and her sisters were Martha, and Eliza. (The Quiners' first child, Martha Morse Quiner, died in 1836.)

When Caroline was 5, her father died while serving as second mate on a ship that capsized and sank on Lake Michigan near the Straits of Mackinac. There were no survivors. In 1849, her mother married farmer Frederick Holbrook. They had one child together, Lottie Holbrook. Caroline evidently loved and respected her new father, and would later honor his memory by naming her son after him.{{Cite journal|last=Van Haaften|first=Jennifer|date=Spring 2017|title=Re-examining the American Pioneer Spirit: The Extended Family of Laura Ingalls Wilder.|url=http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/wmh/id/52572/show/52512/rec/7|journal=Wisconsin Magazine of History|volume=100|issue=3|pages=4–11|via=Wisconsin Historical Society}} At the age of 16 1/2, Caroline started working as a teacher.

On February 1, 1860, she married Charles Phillip Ingalls in Concord, Wisconsin.{{Cite news|title=Looking for Laura|last=Schremp|first=Valerie|date=27 January 2002|work=Saint Louis Post-Dispatch}} Together they had five children: Mary Amelia, Laura Elizabeth, Caroline Celestia (Carrie), Charles Frederick (Freddie), and Grace Pearl.{{Cite news|title=Tracing her travels|last=Powers|first=Pamela|date=24 May 1998|work=Leader-Telegram}}{{Cite news|title='Little House' books, author interest aided by tv series|last=Hoffman|first=Joy|date=29 November 1974|work=Leader-Telegram}}

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| name = Freddie Ingalls

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| birth_name = Charles Frederick Ingalls

| birth_date = {{birth date|1875|11|01|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Walnut Grove, Minnesota, U.S.

| death_date = August 27, 1876 (9 months, 26 days)

| death_place = South Troy, Minnesota, U.S.

| spouse =

| children =

| mother = Caroline Ingalls

| father = Charles Ingalls

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Charles Frederick "Freddie" Ingalls was born on November 1, 1875, in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, and died August 27, 1876, in South Troy, Minnesota, of indeterminate causes.

In her autobiography Pioneer Girl,{{cite web|url=http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/3633.pdf|title=Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867–1957), Papers, 1894–1943 (C3633)|publisher=State Historical Society of Missouri|access-date=September 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010164458/http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/3633.pdf|archive-date=October 10, 2015|url-status=dead}} Laura remembers that "Little Brother was not well" and that "one terrible day, he straightened out his little body and was dead". Wilder scholar William Anderson noted: "Nearly forty years after Freddie's death, Ma mourned him, telling relatives how different everything would be 'if Freddie had lived'."{{cite book|title=Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Iowa Story |last=Anderson |first=William |publisher=Laura Ingalls Wilder Park & Museum |year=1989 |isbn=096100889X |page=7 }}

The Ingalls family traveled by covered wagon from Wisconsin; Kansas (Indian Territory); Burr Oak, Iowa; and Minnesota. In 1879, they settled in De Smet in Dakota Territory. File:Laura ingalls wilder house that pa built de smet.jpg After arriving in De Smet, Caroline and the Ingalls family lived in the home of the local surveyor as well as a store in the downtown area, before homesteading just outside town on a farm by Silver Lake. When the Ingalls family sold the farm due to a persistent pattern of dry years, Charles built a home for them on Third Street in De Smet, known later as "The House That Pa Built".{{cite journal |journal=Prologue Magazine |url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/winter/little-town-in-nara-1.html |title=Genealogy Notes: De Smet, Dakota Territory, Little Town in the National Archives |last=Potter |first=Constance |publisher=The National Archives |date=Winter 2003 |volume=35 |issue=4}} Following her husband's death from heart disease in 1902 at age 66, Ingalls and her oldest daughter, Mary, rented one of the rooms for extra income. Following a long illness, Caroline Ingalls died on April 20, 1924, at the age of 84.

The fictional series The Caroline Years, an extension of the Little House series, by Maria D. Wilkes and Celia Wilkins, follows Caroline Holbrook from her fifth year to her late teens, up to her engagement to Charles. The first title in the series is Little House in Brookfield.Wilkes, Maria D. Little House in Brookfield. New York: HarperTrophy. {{ISBN|0-06-440610-5}}.

The novel Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller follows the Ingalls family move from Pepin, Wisconsin to Kansas Territory from the viewpoint of Caroline.Miller, Sarah. Caroline: Little House, Revisited. New York, N.Y. : William Morrow. {{ISBN|9780062685353}}. The novel was authorized by the Little House Heritage Trust.

Caroline Ingalls has been portrayed in the adaptations of Little House on the Prairie by:

• Karen Grassle in the television series Little House on the Prairie and its movie sequels
• Lindsay Crouse in television films Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

• {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BvHojgEACAAJ| title=From the Mouth of Ma: A Search for Caroline Quiner Ingalls| author=Robynne Elizabeth Miller| year=2015| publisher=Practical Pioneer Press| isbn=978-0-692-58065-3}}

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=1711 Ma Ingalls describes family life in 1861], letter at the Wisconsin Historical Society

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• {{Find a Grave|3951}}
• [http://littlehouseontheprairie.com/about-the-ingalls-family/ About the Ingalls Family (Sarah Uthoff)]

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