De Smet Cemetery Explained

De Smet Cemetery
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Location:	De Smet, South Dakota

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

See also

• Ingalls House (De Smet, South Dakota)

External links

• De Smet, SD Cemetery: Frontier Girl Trail
• Web site: The De Smet Cemetery. https://web.archive.org/web/20111011095653/http://www.pioneergirl.com/index.htm?daisies.htm&Bot_Frame . 2011-10-11 . dead . Pioneer Girl, fact and fiction of Laura Ingalls Wilder, A to Z . Includes links to obituaries of Little House characters
  • Early 1940s WPA burial listings for De Smet Cemetery at South Dakota GenWeb
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