De Smet Cemetery
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De Smet Cemetery is a cemetery located southwest of the town of De Smet in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. Numerous family members from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House books are buried there.
People buried in De Smet Cemetery
- Robert Boast, appeared in a number of the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Reverend Edward Brown, appeared in two of the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Florence Garland Dawley, teacher in De Smet during the Hard Winter of 1880–81
- Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" from the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Charles Ingalls, "Pa" from the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Carrie Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Grace Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Genevieve Masters, "Nellie Oleson"
- Baby Son Wilder, son of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder
=Ingalls family plot image gallery=
File:Ingalls gravesites de smet cemetery.jpg|Ingalls family gravesite, De Smet Cemetery, South Dakota
File:Charles ingalls headstone.jpg|Charles Ingalls gravesite, De Smet Cemetery, South Dakota
File:Caroline ingalls headstone.jpg|Caroline Ingalls gravesite, De Smet Cemetery, South Dakota
File:Mary ingalls headstone.jpg|Mary Ingalls gravesite, De Smet Cemetery, South Dakota
File:Carrie ingalls headstone.jpg|Carrie Ingalls Swanzey gravesite, De Smet Cemetery, South Dakota
File:Grace ingalls dow headstone.jpg|Grace Ingalls Dow and Nathan Dow gravesite, De Smet Cemetery, South Dakota
File:Baby wilder headstone.jpg|Baby Boy Wilder gravesite, De Smet Cemetery, South Dakota
See also
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070621175054/http://www.btinternet.com/~prgreetham/fgtrail/DesmetCemetery.html De Smet, SD Cemetery: Frontier Girl Trail]
- {{cite web |url=http://www.pioneergirl.com/daisies.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011095653/http://www.pioneergirl.com/index.htm?daisies.htm&Bot_Frame |archive-date=2011-10-11 |url-status=dead |work=Pioneer Girl, fact and fiction of Laura Ingalls Wilder, A to Z |title=The De Smet Cemetery}} Includes links to obituaries of Little House characters
- {{Find a Grave cemetery|96912}}
- [http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sd/kingsbury/cemetery/desmet.txt Early 1940s WPA burial listings for De Smet Cemetery at South Dakota GenWeb]
- {{GNIS 2|1254631|GNIS: De Smet Cemetery}} – {{coord|44|22|04|N|97|34|14|W|format=dms|display=title,inline|type:edu_region:US-SD}}
Category:Cemeteries in South Dakota