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List of Little House on the Prairie characters

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There are many Little House on the Prairie characters, appearing in various forms of media in the Little House on the Prairie media franchise.

Contents

The Ingalls family

  • Delano line :
  • Jabez Delano (b.1708) and Prudence Hibbard (b.1711)
  • Colby line :
  • Nathan Colby (b.1710) and (from December 18, 1735) Hannah Worthen (b.1716)

    Based on the data from : The Genealogy of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • Peter Riley Ingalls (1833–1900) – born in Cuba, New York. On June 5, 1861, in Brookfield, Wisconsin married Eliza Ann Quiner (see : The Quiners) and they had 6 children (see below). They 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).
  • Alice Josephine Ingalls (23 Apr 1862 – 30 Jan 1934) – married Arthur Whiting. They had five children, born between 1883 and 1899.
  • Ella Estella Ingalls (23 Jan 1865 – 9 Mar 1945) – married Leslie Lee Whiting and had four children, born between 1885 and 1894. She spent some time in DeSmet, with her husband and the eldest baby Earl Leland.
  • Peter Franklin Ingalls (16 Nov 1866 – 23 Sep 1932) – lived with Laura and Almanzo in De Smet for a while. Married Mary Edith "Molly" McGowin and they had seven children.
  • Lansford Newcomb Ingalls (b. 5 Apr 1870),
  • Edith Florence "Dolly Varden" (23 Jun 1872 – 13 Jul 1951), on 9 Jun 1892 married Heil Nelson Bingham and they had eight children, born between 1893 and 1912.
  • Edmond Llewellyn Ingalls (b. 26 Aug 1880), married Edith Mae Ide and they had 6 children. (Lois Ingalls Gibson, Herbert Ingalls, Wallace Ingalls, Margaret Ingalls Cowsar and William Ingalls).
  • "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
  • Mary
  • Laura
  • Carrie
  • Freddie
  • Grace
  • Lydia Louise Ingalls (1838–1913) – on 15 Jan 1856, she married Robert Fulton Clough and later – in 1859, Joseph Stouff. She had five children, first of whom was Clough's.
  • Issac Lafayette Clough (b.1857, got married in 1876)
  • Robert Stouff
  • Minnie Stouff – married a man with the surname Phillips.
  • Amy Stouff
  • Amos Alvin Stouff
  • Polly Melona Ingalls (1840–1886) – born in Cuba, New York. In 1859 married Henry Odin Quiner (see : The Quiners) and they had six children (see below). 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.
  • Louisa Quiner (b. 1860),
  • Charles Quiner (b. 1862),
  • Albert Quiner (b. 1865),
  • Charlotte "Lottie" Quiner (b. 1867),
  • Ruby Quiner
  • Lillian Quiner
  • Lansford James Ingalls (1842–1928) – was married twice; to Sarah Dickinson (1846–1897) and later to Mary Dickinson. Both of them were born in England.
  • Samuel James Ingalls
  • Sara Belle Ingalls
  • William Walter Ingalls
  • Mary Elizabeth Ingalls
  • Edward Eugene Ingalls
  • Horace Foster Ingalls
  • Andrew Jackson Ingalls – had a son
  • Olive May Ingalls
  • Martha Esther Ingalls
  • Laura Ladocia "Docia" Ingalls (1845–1918) – married August Waldvogel (divorced later) and the couple had two children (see below). Next she married Hiram "Hi" Forbes and they had 7 daughters. Hiram 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. Hiram died in 1906.
  • Lena Waldvogel (1866–1943)
  • August Eugene "Jean" Waldvogel (b. 1870).
  • Hiram Lemuel Ingalls (1848–1923) – on 18 Oct 1867, married Sarah Elizabeth Woodward (1847–1910) and on 27 Feb 1919 – Ellen Parker
  • Laura Eliza Ingalls
  • Ruby Evaline Ingalls
  • Phillip L. Ingalls
  • Sarah Jeanette Ingalls
  • Mary Rose Ellen Ingalls
  • Hiram LeRoy "Roy" Ingalls
  • Leo Vincent Ingalls
  • George Whiting Ingalls (1851–1901)
  • Ruby Celestia Ingalls (1855–1881) (Father of the children unknown)
  • George
  • Dolly Warden
  • Sherman
  • (Laura's maternal great-great-grandparents)
    Allan Alexander Morse and Margaret Drummond *These are fictional names. Real names unknown.

    (Laura's maternal great-grandparents)
    Lewis 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

  • Martha Morse Quiner (1832–1836)
  • Joseph Carpenter Quiner (1834–1862). He married Nancy Frank in Wisconsin in 1856. Died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Shiloh.
  • 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.
  • William Augustus (1861–1884)
  • Joseph Quiner (1863–1923) married Elizabeth C.Reese.
  • Phoebe Quiner
  • Joseph Quiner
  • Elizabeth Quiner
  • Clara Quiner
  • Martha Quiner
  • Charles Quiner
  • Theodore Quiner
  • Donald Quiner
  • Lillian Quiner
  • Emilie Quiner
  • Lettice "Lottie" Jane (1864–1949)
  • Nancy Cora (1865–1955)
  • Martha Eliza (1868–1871)
  • Millicent Ann (1869–1960)
  • Charles Carr (1871–1918)
  • Emma Bertha (1873–1955)
  • Etta Minerva (1874–1899)
  • Martha Josephine (1876–1962)
  • Marion Caroline (1879–1939)
  • Myrtie Emmeline (1879–1956)
  • Thomas Quiner (1882–1944)
  • George Lockwood (1882–1954)
  • Caroline Lake Quiner (December 12, 1839 – April 20, 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. They lived for some time in DeSmet. Died in an accident at the Columbia River on February 23, 1903.
  • Helen Marion Quiner
  • Alice Quiner
  • Donald Quiner
  • Dugold Lewis Quiner
  • Lillian Josephine Quiner
  • John Hill Quiner(born in 1902 or 1903).
  • Henry Quiner died in October 1844 in the sinking of a trading ship on the Great Lakes. Charlotte Tucker Quiner remarried, to Frederic Holbrook, and they had one child

  • Charlotte E. "Lottie" Holbrook (January 20, 1854 – February 15, 1939). She married Henry Moore (b. 1852) in 1875.
  • Frederick Moore (b. 1878)
  • Arvin Moore (b. 1880)
  • Harry C. Moore (b. 1882)
  • Ralph Moore (b. 1887)
  • Pearl Eva Moore (b. 1888)
  • Charlotte Tucker

    Charlotte Wallis Tucker was born on May 25, 1809 in Roxbury, Massachusetts (a suburb of Boston). She died September 20, 1884 in Rome, Wisconsin. Her mostly fictionalised story was described in the four-book series The Charlotte Years by Melissa Wiley. Charlotte was maternal grandmother to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

    As a young woman, Charlotte married Henry Newton Quiner from Connecticut. She was the first woman in her family to travel west, living in Ohio and Indiana before settling in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.

    Martha Morse

    Martha Morse was born on January 2, 1782 in Scotland, where her father was a wealthy landowners in the Scottish Highlands. Her mostly fictionalised story was told in the four-book seriesThe Martha Years, by Melissa Wiley. Martha was Charlotte Tucker's mother and great-grandmother to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

    Martha married Lewis Tucker, a blacksmith's son. Lewis and Martha travelled to the United States and began their new life near Boston, Massachusetts, becoming the first of Laura's ancestors to immigrate to America.

  • Royal Gould Wilder (1809–1815)
  • Thomas Payne Wilder (1811–?)
  • James Mason Wilder (1812–?) – Almanzo's father. Married Angeline Albina Day.
  • Laura Ann Wilder (1844–1899) – born June 15, 1844, in 1874 married Harrison Lomanzo Howard.
  • Kearny Howard (step-child, born c.1869)
  • Angelina Esther Howard (1876–1964), in 1897 married Fred Merritt.
  • Ralph Merritt
  • Ethel Merritt
  • Howard Merritt
  • Harrison J.Howard (1878–1918)
  • Josephine Howard (1880–1918), married to William Walker
  • Ralph Waldo Howard (1881–1934), married to Estelle C.
  • Charles E. Howard (1908–1978)
  • Clarence Howard (1909–1913)
  • James J. Howard (1911–1981)
  • Ralph R. Howard (1913–1921)
  • Ralph Waldo Howard (1914–1976)
  • Paul Martin Howard (1920–1923)
  • Royal Gould Wilder (1847–1925), born February 20, 1847. In 1893, married Electa Averill Hutchison.
  • Ethel Hutchinson (step-child, died 1905), married Willard Stevens (died in 1928)
  • Clyde Hutchinson (step-child), married Edna Baily
  • Rae Hutchinson (step-child), married Bertha Luedtke (died 1910)
  • Mae Hutchinson (step-child), in 1912 married George Pooler
  • Angeline Bernice Wilder (1894–1957), in 1917 married Arlow Laging and in 1929, George Granger.
  • "baby girl" Wilder (stillborn in 1897)
  • Susan E. Wilder (1898–1899)
  • Eliza Jane Wilder (1850–1930), born January 3, 1850. In 1893, married Thomas Jefferson Thayer and in 1904, Maxwell Gordon. Died in Los Angeles.
  • Walcott Wilder Thayer (1894–1965), in 1918 married Frances Cockrell.
  • Walter Thayer – married Elaine Ditch
  • Cynthia Thayer
  • Walter Thayer
  • Francis Gervaise Thayer – married Alena (last name unknown).
  • Thomas Thayer
  • Larry Thayer
  • Betty Mae Thayer – married a man with the surname Raymond, and later, a man with the surname Huey.
  • Cynthia Raymond
  • Walter Raymond
  • David Huey
  • Joan Huey
  • Donald Huey
  • Alice Wilder (1853–1892), born September 3, 1853. In 1879 married Albert A.Baldwin (1848–1905). Died in Florida.
  • Myrtle Baldwin (1880–1945), married to John R. Brown
  • Leland Edward Baldwin (1884–1913)
  • Almanzo Wilder (1857–1949)
  • Perley Day Wilder (1869–1934), born June 13, 1869, In 1897 married Elsie Lillian Merritt (1879–1948). Died in Los Angeles.
  • James Wilder (1903–?), married Thelma Gricourt
  • Gladys Wilder (1905–?)
  • Harold Wilder (1909–?)
  • Perley Wilder Jr., (1912–1977), married to Ethel Smith, and later, Dolores Moore
  • Dorothy Wilder (1914–1966). Married to Carl Pittman
  • John Wilder (1916–1916)
  • Hannah Payne Wilder (1814–1891)
  • Royal Gould Wilder (1816–1887) – born after his eldest brother's death (and so named after him). He became a reverend and married Eliza Jane Smith.
  • Robert Wilder
  • Grace Wilder
  • William Wilder
  • Edward Wilder
  • Mary Jane Wilder
  • Phoebe Wilder (1821–1890) – married Joseph C.Lamson.
  • Chester Lamson (1854–1934) – married Catherine McDonough.
  • Mabel Lamson (1888–1982)
  • Charles Lamson
  • Gussie Lamson
  • "baby girl" Lamson
  • Polly Maria Wilder (1824–1851)
  • William Wilder (1828–1909)
  • Sarah Charlotte Wilder (1820–1892) – married Andrew Day (her sister-in-law's – Almanzo's mother – brother)
  • Carrie May Day (1856–1898) – married Orville Everett.
  • Frances Everett – married a man with the last name of Smith.
  • Dorothy Belle Smith
  • Elmer A.Day (1862–1947) – married to Mary MacMaster (1864–1945)
  • Willard R.Day (1858–1891) – married Emma Hubbard
  • Grace Day (1864–1894) – married to Grant Collins
  • Joshua Prince Wilder (1832–1832)
  • Laura Day (1819–?)
  • Delia Day (1824–?)
  • Angelina Albina Day (1821–?) – married James Mason Wilder and they had six children, including Almanzo James Wilder (Laura Ingalls Wilder's husband). For more information, see above.
  • Celinda A.Day (1826–?)
  • Andrew Day (1828–?) – married Sarah Charlotte Wilder (1820–1892) and they had four children. For more information, see the Wilders' tree above (since Sarah was a sister of Almanzo's father).
  • John Wesley Day (1829–1907) – married Alcesta Lindy.
  • Fred Day
  • Frank Day
  • Albert Day
  • Wilton Day
  • George W.Day (1831–1873)
  • 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.
  • References

    List of Little House on the Prairie characters Wikipedia