List of Real-life Individuals From Little House On The Prairie - Characters Based On Real People - The Ingalls Family

The Ingalls Family

• Delano line :

Jonathan Delano (b.1647) and Mercy Warren (1658-1727) (gdau. of Richard Warren of the Mayflower)

Jonathan Delano (b.1680) and Amy Hatch (b.1687)

Jabez Delano (b.1708) and Prudence Hibbard (b.1711)

• Colby line :

Matthew Colby (b.1530) and (from 1555) Mary (last name unknown) (b.1532)

Thomas Colby (b.1567) and (from May 4, 1596) Anne Jackson (b.1571)

Anthony Colby (b.1605) and (from 1632) Susanna Haddon (b.1608)

John Colby (b.1633) and (from January 14, 1655) Frances Hoyt (b.1636)

John Colby (b.1656) and (from December 27, 1675) Sarah Eldridge (b.1658)

Joseph Colby (b.1680) and (from November 22, 1704) Anne Bartlett (b.1684)

Nathan Colby (b.1710) and (from December 18, 1735) Hannah Worthen (b.1716)

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

• Peter Riley Ingalls (1833-1900) - born in Cuba, New York. On April 21, 1842, in Brookfield, Wisconsin married Eliza Ann Quiner (see : The Quiners) and the couple had six 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, together with her husband and the eldest baby Earl Leland.
  • Peter Franklin Ingalls (16 Nov 1866-23 Sep 1932) - he lived with Laura and Almanzo in De Smet for a while. Had a wife 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 (last name unknown) and they had two children.
• "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 last name of 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