After discussing the Homesteading Act in last week's article, which led to mention the famed frontier settler, Charles Ingalls. It may be more accurate to say that his daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder is actually the famous one, for having written the Little House on the Prairie books.
She wrote the popular series of books for children (which were also made into a TV series) later in her life, when she was in her 60s. Her stories chronicled her family's struggles to settle in the American west, through several moves during her childhood.
Her daughter Rose also wrote a book called Free Land, which also documents some of their family history, but with a more dramatic and adult-oriented theme.
So, to continue along that theme, here is the ancestry of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her family tree includes some other figures from early American history, including Richard Warren who came to America on the Mayflower.
The following is several generations of her ancestors, ordered in a simple ahnentafel chart.
1. Laura Ingalls – b.1867 d.1957
2. Charles Phillip Ingalls – b.1836 d.1902
3. Caroline Lake Quiner – b.1839 d. 1923
4. Lansford Whiting Ingalls – b.1812 d.1896
5. Laura Louise Colby – b.1810 d.1883
6. Henry Netwon Quiner – b.1807 d.1844
7. Charlotte Wallis Tucker – b.1809 d.1884
8. Samuel Ingalls – b.1771 d.1841
9. Margaret Delano – b.1773 d.1837
10. Nathan Colby – b.1778
11. Eunice Blood – b.1782 d.1862
12. William Quiner
13. Margaret Doer
16. Jonathan Ingalls – b.1750 d.1834
17. Martha Jane Locke – b.1753 d.1785
18. Jonathan Delano – b.1735 d.1811
19. Anne Ladd – b.1734 d.1816
20. Ezekial Colby – b.1739
21. Sally Fowler – b. 1734
32. Timothy Ingalls – b.1720
36. Jabez Delano – b.1701 d.1752
37. Prudence Hibbard – b. 1712
40. Nathan Colby – b.1710
41. Hannah Worthen – b.1716
64. Samuel Ingalls – b.1683 d.1760
65. Mary Watts – b.1687 d.1721
72. Jonathan Delano – b.1679 d.1752
73. Amy Allen Hatch – b.1687 d.1764
80. Joseph Colby – b.1680
81. Anne Bartlett – b.1684
128. Samuel Ingalls – b.1654 d.1733
129. Sarah Hendrick – b.1661
130. Samuel Watts – b.1650 d.1721
131. Elizabeth Ayer – b.1659 d.1695
144. Jonathan Delano – b.1647 d.1719
145. Mercy Warren – b.1656 d.1727
146. John Hatch – b.1654 d.1737
147. Amy Allen – b.1663 d.1708
290. Nathaniel Warren – b.1624 d.1667
291 Sarah Walker – b.1622 d.1700
580 Richard Warren – b.1590 d.1628
581. Elizabeth Juitt – b.1580 d.1673
As for Laura Ingalls' descendents, she married Almanzo Wilder and had one daughter, Rose Wilder. Rose lived from 1886 until 1968 and married Claire Gillette Lane. They divorced in 1920 and Rose had no living children.
