^These below cast members appear in the opening credits after the main characters but before the guest actors and crew credits. Unlike the main characters, they are only credited when they appear. In the first four seasons, they are credited under "The Town".
^Gehring initially appears as Ed Stacy in "Money Crop" (1.20).
^Parady initially appears as Eliza Ingalls in "Journey in the Spring" (3.6).
^Laborteaux initially appears as young Charles Ingalls in "Journey in the Spring" (3.6) and "I Remember, I Remember" (4.16).
^Lester initially appears as Janie Kagan in "The Fighter" (4.10).
^ abcdLandon also appears as Leslie in "Plague" (1.18), Kate in "The Election" (3.20), an extra in "Harriet's Happening" (5.8), Marge Loren in "The Third Miracle" (6.4), Pam in "A Wiser Heart (8.5).
Alice Josephine Ingalls (Apr 23, 1862 – January 30, 1934) – married Arthur Whiting. They had five children, born between 1883 and 1899 (Altha Whiting Taylor, Jay Whiting, Fred Whiting, Vena Whiting Clark and Roy Whiting).
Ella Estella Ingalls (Jan 23, 1865 – March 9, 1945) – married Leslie Lee Whiting and had four sons, born between 1885 and 1894 (Earl Whiting, Floyd Whiting, Harry Whiting and Clarence Whiting). She spent some time in DeSmet, with her husband and the eldest baby Earl Leland.
Peter Franklin Ingalls (Nov 16, 1866 – September 23, 1932) – lived with Laura and Almanzo in De Smet for a while. Married Mary Edith "Molly" McGowin and they had between seven and eight children (presumed to be Edith Ingalls, Alexander Ingalls, Florence Ingalls Lindsey, Pearlie Ingalls Chiles, Fred Ingalls, Mary Ingalls, Mable Ingalls Mims and an unnamed infant)
Lansford Newcomb Ingalls (April 5, 1870 - January 17, 1946)
Edith Florence "Dolly Varden" Ingalls (Jun 23, 1872 – July 13, 1951), on June 9, 1892, married Heil Nelson Bingham and they had eight children, born between 1893 and 1912 (Frederick Bingham, Estella Bingham Mahoney, Pearl Bingham Shanahan, Percy Bingham, Mabel Bingham Leverty, Thomas Bingham, Edna Bingham and James Bingham).
Edmond Llewellyn Ingalls (b. August 26, 1880), married Edith Mae Ide and they had 6 children. (Lois Ingalls Gibson, Herbert Ingalls, Wallace Ingalls, Margaret Ingalls Cowsar and William Ingalls).
Aaron Ingalls(1835–1835). Died at approximately two weeks of age, of "convulsions".
Charles Phillip Ingalls(1836–1902) – Laura's father
Lydia Louise Ingalls(1838–1913) – on January 15, 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 (1858–1893, got married in 1876)
Amos Alvin Stouff (1860–1893)
Minnie Stouff (1868–1941)
Amy Stouff (1870–1947)
Robert Stouff (1875–1926)
Polly Melona Ingalls(1840–1886) – born in Cuba, New York. In 1859 married Henry Odin Quiner(see : The Quiners) and they had seven 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 Martha Quiner (1860–1917), m. Walter Smith and had at least one son, William Smith
Charles Henry Quiner (1862–1881)
James Albert Quiner (1865–1947), m. Gertrude Frances Price (1866–1945) in 1903
Charlotte A. "Lottie" Quiner (1867–?), m. Charles Sheldon (1857–1942) and had three daughters (May Sheldon Scharen, Grace Sheldon and Blanche Sheldon)
George Lansford Quiner (1870–1884)
Lillian M. "Lillie" Quiner (1873–1881)
Ruby Quiner (1878–1885)
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 (1866–1933)
Sara Belle Ingalls (1870–1856)
William Walter Ingalls (1872–1846)
Mary Elizabeth Ingalls (1874–1923)
Andrew Jackson Ingalls (1876–1959)
Charles Reuben Ingalls (1878–1880)
Edward Eugene Ingalls (1881–1888)
Horace Foster Ingalls (1883–1888)
Olive May Ingalls (1885–1888)
Martha Esther Ingalls (1887–1977)
Laura Ladocia "Docia" Ingalls(July 8, 1845 – January 18, 1918) – married August Waldvogel (divorced later) and the couple had two children (see below). Next she married Hiram "Hi" Forbes and they had seven 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, and Docia subsequently moved to Colorado. She died twelve years later.
Lena Evelyn Waldvogel (1866–1943), m. Samuel Aughey Heikes and they had eight children (Agnes Heikes Kate, Eugene Heikes, Marion Heikes Lueder, Samuel Heikes, Lola Heikes Flack, Winfred Heikes, Warren Heikes and Geraldine Heikes Sloan)
August Eugene "Jean" Waldvogel (1870-1945), m. first Maria Luella Harmon and subsequently Leona Beatrice Hinton, and had seven children in total (Earl Waldvogel, William Waldvogel, Velma Waldvogel Mellor, Verne Waldvogel, Ernest Waldvogel, Robert Waldvogel and Leonard Waldvogel). Died in a car accident along with Leona, Verne and Leonard.
Ida May Forbes (1875–1953), m. Charles W. Norman
Adeline Forbes (1877–1936), m. Algernon "Al" Russell
Emma Laura Forbes (1879–1912), m. Henry Schneider
Mary Amanda Forbes (1881–1958), m. Edward Oscar Baker
Maud Marie Forbes (1884–1983), m. Joseph Gregg or John Gunderson
Frances I. Forbes (1887–1968), m. Joseph Halda
Katie P. Forbes (1890–1919) - possibly married a man with the surname Wilton
Hiram Lemuel Ingalls(1848–1923) – on October 18, 1867, married Sarah Elizabeth Woodward (1847–1910) and on February 27, 1919 – Ellen Parker
Laura Eliza Ingalls (1867–1943), m. John Monroe Butterfield (1856–1943)
Ruby Evaline Ingalls (1871–1941), m. Austin Johnson Beers (1852–1929) in 1884 and William E. Garrison (1874–1947) in 1931
Phillip L. Ingalls
Sarah Jeanette Ingalls (1877–1956), m. Emil Otto Kreiner (1865–1937) and later Bernard Connor (1871–1914) in 1896
Mary Rose Ellen Ingalls (1880–1951), m. Marion Ormal Kezer (1875–1942)
Hiram LeRoy "Roy" Ingalls (1882–1949), m. Mathilda Bartosh (1883–1966) in 1901
Leo Vincent Kreiner Ingalls (1896–1974), m. Viola Edna Edgerton. Adopted by Hiram in 1898.
George Whiting Ingalls(1851–1901) - married Julia E. Bard (1858–1910) in Alden, Wisconsin, and moved with her to Webster, Wisconsin
"baby boy" Ingalls (b. 1878) - died shortly after birth
"baby boy" Ingalls (b. 1880) - died shortly after birth
Benjamin Ingalls (1884-1885) - suffocated on the way back from a family visit
Ruby Celestia Ingalls(1855–1881) - married Joseph Card (1849-1923)
George Card (?)
Sherman Card (?)
Alma Josephine "Dolly Varden" Card (1880-1885)
NOTE: A second daughter of Ruby Ingalls Card, Lettie Letishia Card Anderson, is listed as being born in 1888, seven years after Ruby's death. How this is possible is unknown.
(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
THEIR CHILDREN (Laura's aunts and uncles) :
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.
Frank R Quiner (1859–1944)
John Carpenter Quiner (1861–1950)
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 and had fourteen children.
William Augustus Carpenter (1861–1884)
Joseph Quiner Carpenter (1863–1923) married Elizabeth C.Reese.
Thomas Lewis Quiner(1844–1903) – born on November 23. He married Lillian Graham 'Lily' Hill(1858-1924) and they had six children. They lived for some time in DeSmet. Died in an accident at the Columbia River on February 23, 1903.
Helen Marion Quiner (1881–1961)
Alice Quiner (1882–1883)
Donald Quiner (1885–1887)
Lillian Josephine Quiner (1887–1959)
Dugald Lewis Quiner (1889–1964)
John Hill Quiner (1900–1978)
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 Elizabeth "Lottie" Holbrook(January 20, 1854 – February 15, 1939). She married Henry Moore(b. 1852) in 1875 and they had five children.
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
Allan Alexander Morse
Margaret Drummond
Grisell "Grisie" Morse (b. 1774)
Alisdair Morse (b.1776)
Robert "Robbie" Morse (b.1778)
Duncan Morse (b.1780)
Martha Morse (1782–1862)
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 series The 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.
Perley Day Wilder (1869–1934), born June 13, 1869, In 1897 married Elsie Lillian Merritt (1879–1948). Died in Los Angeles.
James Wilder (1903–1990), married Thelma Gricourt
Gladys Wilder (1905–1987)
Harold O. Wilder (1909–2003)
Perley Wilder Jr., (1912–1977), married to Ethel Smith, and later, Dolores Moore
Dorothy A. 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(1822–1910).
Edward Payson Wilder (1847–1890)
Mary Jane Wilder (b.1856)
William Royal Wilder (1858–1925)
Grace Evelyn Wilder (1861–1911)
Robert Parmelee Wilder (1863–1938)
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) - married Adeline Hastins(1831-1909)
William A. "Willie" Wilder (1847–1860)
George Wilder (1868–1922)
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)
The Day family
Justin Day, I
Justin Day, II (1790–1861)
Diadema Bateman (1794–1868)
Laura Day (1819–?)
Delia Day (1824–?)
Angelina Albina Day(1819-1905)
Celinda A.Day (1826–?)
Andrew Day (1828–1894)
John Wesley Day (1829–1907)
George W.Day (1821–1872)
Laura Day(1819–?)
Delia Day(1824–?)
Angelina Albina Day(1819–1905) – 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 J. Day(1828–1894) – 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
Real people
Robert and Ellie Boast, were neighbors and friends of the Ingalls family.[2][3]
Ida Wright-Brown, was an adopted daughter of the Reverend and Laura's school friend in De Smet
Oscar Edmund "Cap" Garland was one of the male school friends of Laura. He saved the town from starvation by going 15 miles to find wheat in a blizzard, along with Almanzo Wilder.[6]
Florence Adelia Garland Dawley was a teacher in De Smet and an older sister of Cap Garland.[7]
