List of Little House on the Prairie real people

List of Little House on the Prairie real people

This is a list of family members of Laura Ingalls Wilder "(Little House on the Prairie)".

The Ingalls

(Laura's paternal great-great-grandparents)
Jonathan Ingalls "(1750-1834)" and Martha Jane Locke "(1753-1785)"
Jonathan Delano "(1735-1811)" and Anne Ladd "(1734-1816)"
Ezekiel Colby "(1739-1758)" and Sally Fowler "(1734-1834)"
Elijah Blood "(1748-1826)" and Eunice Sleeman "(1758-1811)"
(Laura's paternal great-grandparents)
Samuel Ingalls "(1771-1841)" and Margaret Delano "(1773-1837)"
Nathan Colby "(1778-1857)" and Eunice Blood "(1782-1862)"
(Laura's paternal grandparents)
Landsford Ingalls and Laura Colby
::::THEIR CHILDREN (Laura's aunts and uncles):
*Peter Riley Ingalls "(1833-1900)" - born in Cuba, New York. On April 21, 1842, in Brookfield, Wisconsin he married Eliza Ann Quiner "(see : The Quiners)" and the couple had six children - Alice "(1862)", Ella "(1865)", Peter "(1866)", Lansford "(1870)", Edith "Dolly Varden" "(1872)" and Edmond Llewellyn "(1880)". The family left Pepin in 1874, together with Laura's family and stopped in Zumbro Falls, Minnesota. Next they moved to South Troy, Minnesota where the Ingalls visited them for some time (in 1876). Cousin Peter lived with Laura and Almanzo in DeSmet for a while. Cousin Ella spent some time there too, together with her husband and baby Earl.
*"baby boy" Ingalls "(1835-1835)". Died at approximately two weeks of age, of "convulsions", and had not been named yet.
*Charles Phillip Ingalls "(1836-1902)" - Laura's father
*Lydia Louise Ingalls "(1838-1913)"
*Polly Melona Ingalls "(1840-1886)" - born in Cuba, New York. In 1859 married Henry Odin Quiner "(see : The Quiners)" and they had six children: Louisa, Charles, Albert, Lottie, Ruby, and Lillian. The family left Pepin with Laura's family in 1868 and both families stopped in Rothville, Missouri. In 1869 they returned to Pepin. Some time later they went West.
*Lansford James Ingalls "(1842-1928)"
*Laura Ladocia "Docia" Ingalls "(1845-1918)" - married August Waldvogel (divorced later) and the couple had two children (Lena "(1866)" and August Eugene "Jean" "(1870)"). Next she married Hiram "Hi" Forbes and they had 7 daughters. Hi was a contractor for the Chicago and North Western Railway. They spent some time in DeSmet with the Ingalls but soon moved to Nebraska. They lost contact. Hi died in 1906, Docia in 1918 and Lena in 1943.
*Hiram Lemuel Ingalls "(1848-1923)"
*George Whiting Ingalls "(1851-1901)"
*Ruby Celestia Ingalls "(1855-1881)"

The Quiners

(Laura's maternal great-great-grandparents)
Allan Alexander Morse and Margaret Drummond
(Laura's maternal great-grandparents)
Louis Tucker "(1779-1870)" and Martha Gráinne Morse "(1772-1862)"
William Quiner "(1773-1831)" and Margaret Doer "(1774-1839)"
(Laura's maternal grandparents)
Charlotte Tucker and Henry Quiner
::::THEIR CHILDREN (Laura's aunts and uncles) :
*Martha Morse Quiner "(1832-1835)"
*Joseph Carpenter Quiner "(1834-1862)"
*Henry Odin Quiner "(1835-1880)" - born on December 7 in Ohio. He married Polly Ingalls "(for more - see above)"
*Martha Jane Quiner "(1837-1927)" - married Charles Carpenter in 1860.
*Caroline Lake Quiner "(1839-1924)" - Laura's mother
*Eliza Ann Quiner "(1842-1931)" - born on April 21 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Both families - the Ingalls and the Quiners - moved several times and stopped finally in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Eliza married Peter Ingalls in Concord, Wisconsin, on June 5, 1861 "(for more - see above)".
*Thomas Lewis Quiner "(1844-1903)" - born on November 23. He married Lillian Graham Hill and had six children: Helen, Alice, Donald, Dugold, Lillian, and John (born in 1902 or 1903). They lived for some time in DeSmet. Died in an accident at the Columbia River on February 23, 1903.

Henry Quiner died in October 1844 in the sinking of a trading ship on the Great Lakes. Charlotte Tucker Quiner remarried, to Frederic M. Holbrook, and they had one child:
*Charlotte E. "Lotty" Holbrook "(1854-?1875)"

The Wilders

James Mason Wilder (son of Abel and Hannah Wilder) and Angeline Albina Day (daughter of Justin and Diadema Day)::::CHILDREN :
*Laura Ann Wilder
*Royal Wilder
*Eliza Jane Wilder
*Almanzo Wilder - Laura's husband
*Alice Wilder
*Perley Day Wilder

Neighbors, Friends and Acquaintances

*Nellie Oleson was actually three real people: Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters, and Stella Gilbert.
*Lew Brewster was a pseudonym for Louis Bouchie, a homesteader who offered Laura her first teaching job.

External links

* [http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com Laura's family at "Frontier Girl"]
* [http://www.littlehousebooks.com/ Official "Little House books" homepage]
* [http://members.tripod.com/~PennyN/ Laura's and Almanzo's relatives]
* [http://genealogy.about.com/od/famous_family_trees/p/ingalls.htm Genealogy - Laura Ingalls Wilder]


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