Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder, an American writer, journalist, and diarist, was born on February 7, 1867 to Charles Philip Ingalls and Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls, in Pepin County, Wisconsin. She passed away at the age of 90, on February 10, 1957, in Mansfield, Missouri. She was married to Almanzo James Wilder (1857-1949), and were parents to Rose Wilder Lane and a baby boy who died in infancy. Her Little House series became popular with children and was developed into a television series titled "Little House on the Prairie" which was based on the series.
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Birth and Ancestry
Born in the Big Woods of Pepin, County, Wisconsin on February 7, 1867, Wilder was the second child of Charles Philip Ingalls and Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls. Wilder has four siblings: older sister, Mary Amelia Ingalls, and her younger siblings, Caroline Celestia "Carrie" Ingalls Swanzey, Charles Frederick Ingalls (who died in infancy), and Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow.
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Family on the Move
The Ingalls family moved to Kansas, which was Indian territory, where Charles got a claim, when Wilder was barely two years of age. Her sister Carrie, was born during this time (August 1870). But they would soon move again as Charles was told by the government that it was Indian territory and had no right to be there.
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