Caroline

 These are from Find A Grave--which ancestry now owns--so it is not as good as it used to be.  Above is Caroline Quiner and below Charles Ingalls. 

 I just finished reading a fiction book about Caroline Quiner.  The book is about the families' short time in Montgomery County, Kansas.  They are on the 1870 census for that county.  Recorded in the Ingalls' Bible is baby Carrie's birth in Montgomery County, Kansas.  Laura Wilder went to the area looking for the place she had lived.  Childhood memories fade.   She thought they lived 40 miles south of Independence which would have put them in Oklahoma, but it was only 14 miles south.  The little homestead was in Kansas.  Laura told they had to leave because the U S government said not whites could settle there, but in reality where they lived was not affected.  They left because the guy who bought their place in Wisconsin defaulted and they had no money to purchase the land. 

I tried to figure out who Mr. Edwards was from the census and Mrs. Scott, but the names are changed so I could not solve that mystery.  Someone else probably already has.

 The book was okay.  It really just retold the stories that Wilder wrote of from a mother's view.  I enjoyed the history part of the book.

Laura has to work today.  Even Erin is off.  Hope Laura has a good day and it is not too taxing.