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PortraitPersonIn the storyLifeOn the chart
Portrait of Charles IngallsCharles IngallsPa in the booksNot recordedFarmer, carpenter and justice of the peace.

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Portrait of Caroline IngallsCaroline IngallsMa in the booksMarried 1860Born Caroline Lake Quiner, the mother of five.

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MIMary IngallsEldest daughterNot recordedBlind from fourteen, she studied in Vinton, Iowa.

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Portrait of Laura Ingalls WilderLaura Ingalls WilderAuthor of the booksNot recordedShe wrote the books from her own childhood.

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AWAlmanzo WilderHusband of LauraMarried 1885The boy of Farmer Boy.

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CICarrie IngallsThird daughterNot recordedLater Carrie Swanzey.

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FIFreddie IngallsThe only sonNot recordedHe died before his first birthday.

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GIGrace IngallsYoungest daughterNot recordedLater Grace Dow.

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RWRose Wilder LaneDaughter of LauraNot recordedA journalist who edited Pioneer Girl.

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  • APAGenogram Builder. (2026, November 10). Little House on the Prairie family tree. https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/little-house-family-tree
  • MLA“Little House on the Prairie Family Tree.” Genogram Builder, 10 Nov. 2026, https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/little-house-family-tree.
  • ChicagoGenogram Builder. “Little House on the Prairie Family Tree.” Last modified November 10, 2026. https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/little-house-family-tree.
  • HarvardGenogram Builder (2026) Little House on the Prairie Family Tree. Available at: https://genogrambuilder.org/stories/little-house-family-tree (Accessed: 10 November 2026).

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Sources and credits

The dates of Laura, Freddie, Almanzo and Rose come from the biography of the American Battlefield Trust. The dates of Charles, Mary, Carrie and Grace and the account of the books come from the Wikipedia articles, which cite the family records, and they disagree on Charles Ingalls’s day of birth. All were read on 10 November 2026. The photographs are old pictures of the real family in the public domain on Wikimedia Commons, where their photographers and dates are not recorded. Nothing from the books, their illustrations or the television series is shown.

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Each name leads to the file on Wikimedia Commons. The pictures in the article are in the public domain or under CC0.

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