Caroline Celestia Ingalls

1870 - 1946  (75 years)

• Name	Caroline Celestia Ingalls  [1, 2]
  Birth	3 Aug 1870	Rutland, Montgomery, Kansas, United States   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	2 Jun 1946	Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States   [1, 2]
  Burial	De Smet, Kingsbury, South Dakota
  	3953
  Person ID	I23266	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2026

  
  

  Father	Charles Phillip Ingalls,   b. 10 Jan 1836, Cuba, Allegany, NY d. 8 Jun 1902, DeSmet, Kingsbury, SD (Age 66 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Caroline Lake Quiner,   b. 12 Dec 1839, Brookfield, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States d. 20 Apr 1924, DeSmet, Kingsbury, SD (Age 84 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1 Feb 1860	Concord, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States   [1]
  Family ID	F3939	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	David Nevin Swanzey,   b. 1854, Missouri, USA d. 1938 (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	1 Aug 1912	Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States   [2]
  Children	1. Harold D Swanzey,   b. 1907, South Dakota, United States d. Apr 1939, Hill City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Mary Elizabeth Swanzey,   b. 26 Aug 1904, Stronghurst, Henderson, Illinois, United States d. 9 Sep 1969, Hill City, Pennington, South Dakota, United States (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5671	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Worked for the DeSmet, SD newspaper and went onto work for larger newspapers. Carrie married David, a widower with 2 children. She never had children of her own. Carrie Ingalls Swanzey moved to Keystone, South Dakota in 1911. After a long career of working in the newspaper industry, Carrie was offered a manager position at the Keystone Recorder. She met David Swanzey and the two married in 1912. Carrie lived a comfortable life in Keystone. She became a stepmother to David’s two children and was very involved in the community.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Caroline Lake Quiner http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=395956401&indiv=try [S3] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Caroline Celestia Ingalls http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=1656682106&indiv=try