People Quiz: Laura Ingalls Wilder | 20 Questions

Answer: February 7, 1867

Mary Amelia Ingalls was born on January 10, 1865. Caroline Celestia (Carrie) Ingalls was born on August 3, 1870. Charles Frederick Ingalls was born on November 1, 1875. Grace Pearl Ingalls was born on May 23, 1877. These were the children of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. In real life they did not adopt any children.

Answer: Charles and Caroline Ingalls

Charles Phillip Ingalls was born on January 10, 1836. Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls was born on December 12, 1839. They were married on February 1, 1860.

Answer: Little House in the Big Woods

The town of Pepin was first built on the lake shore and then extended up the bluffs that rise to the east. Lake Pepin is an expansion of the Mississippi River, thirty miles long and three miles wide at its widest. When Laura wrote about one trip to town she said, "Laura gathered so many pebbles from the shore of Lake Pepin that they tore the pocket from her dress."

Answer: 1932

"Little House in the Big Woods" described her life as a small child in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. They left the Big Woods in 1869 and moved to Kansas.

Answer: Little House on the Prairie

Even though Laura's books say that Carrie was already born when they moved to Kansas, she was not. Caroline Celestia Ingalls was born in Montgomery County, Kansas.

Answer: about 13 miles

In "Little House on the Prairie" Laura said they lived about 40 miles from Independence. According to old land and census records they actually lived about 13 miles from town.

Answer: True

In 1871, they left Kansas and moved back to Wisconsin. In 1874, Pa sold the farm a second time and moved to western Minnesota. They settled near the town of Walnut Grove.

Answer: True

Charles and Caroline Ingalls bought 172 acres in North Hero Township, Redwood County, Minnesota. The farm was two miles north of Walnut Grove. In the bank of Plum Creek is where the dugout was.

Answer: Masters Hotel

When crops were ruined once again in 1876, Pa said he had had enough. Mr. Steadman, a friend from church, had bought the Masters Hotel in Burr Oak and had asked Pa to come help him operate the business. Pa agreed.

Answer: True

After a year in Burr Oak, the Ingalls returned to Walnut Grove. It was during that time the family was stricken with scarlet fever. The doctors called it "brain fever." The scarlet fever left 14-year-old Mary blind.

Answer: De Smet

Charles and Caroline never moved again. They are buried in the De Smet Cemetery.

Answer: August 25, 1885

Laura was seventeen when Almanzo asked her to marry him. She agreed, but made him promise that their wedding ceremony would not ask that she obey him.

Answer: February 13, 1857

Almanzo was born in near Malone, New York. He died in Mansfield, Missouri on October 23, 1949 at the age of 92.

Answer: 2

Rose Wilder was born on December 5, 1886 in De Smet. An infant son was born and died in August 1889. Laura and Almanzo had not named their son before he passed away. Two weeks after their son passed away, their house burned.

Answer: Rocky Ridge Farm

They named the farm Rocky Ridge because the land was so rocky. Laura wrote all of her books at Rocky Ridge.

Answer: Farmer Boy

"Farmer Boy" took place when Almanzo was around 9-years-old. "The First Four Years" was about Laura and Almanzo's first four years of marriage. "These Happy Golden Years" was about when she and Almanzo were courting. "Little House in the Ozarks" was about when Rose was a little girl. That was written by Roger Lea McBride.

Answer: Yes

Rose married Claire Gillette Lane on March 24, 1909. They had an infant son that was born and died in 1910. Rose and Gillette divorced in 1918. Rose never remarried.

Answer: 64 years

Laura and Almanzo celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary in August before Almanzo passed away in October 1949.

Answer: 1971

"The First Four Years" was not published during Laura's lifetime. It was published 14 years after her death from her original penciled manuscripts.

Answer: February 10, 1957

She passed away three days after her 90th birthday. She is buried next to Almanzo in the Mansfield Cemetery. Rocky Ridge Farm is open to the public for tours.