- 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 andLaura Colby
::::THEIR CHILDREN (Laura's aunts and uncles):
*Peter Riley Ingalls "(1833 -1900 )" - born inCuba, New York . OnApril 21 ,1842 , inBrookfield, 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 in1874 , together with Laura's family and stopped inZumbro Falls, Minnesota . Next they moved toSouth Troy, Minnesota where the Ingalls visited them for some time (in1876 ). 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 inCuba, New York . In1859 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 in1868 and both families stopped inRothville, Missouri . In1869 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 toNebraska . They lost contact. Hi died in1906 , Docia in1918 and Lena in1943 .
*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 andHenry Quiner
::::THEIR CHILDREN (Laura's aunts and uncles) :
*Martha Morse Quiner "(1832 -1835 )"
*Joseph Carpenter Quiner "(1834 -1862 )"
*Henry Odin Quiner "(1835 -1880 )" - born onDecember 7 inOhio . 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 onApril 21 inBrookfield, Wisconsin . Both families - the Ingalls and the Quiners - moved several times and stopped finally inJefferson County, Wisconsin . Eliza married Peter Ingalls inConcord, Wisconsin , onJune 5 ,1861 "(for more - see above)".
*Thomas Lewis Quiner "(1844 -1903 )" - born onNovember 23 . He married Lillian Graham Hill and had six children: Helen, Alice, Donald, Dugold, Lillian, and John (born in1902 or1903 ). They lived for some time in DeSmet. Died in an accident at theColumbia River onFebruary 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 WilderNeighbors, Friends and Acquaintances
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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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