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Laura Ingalls Wilder Timeline

Page history last edited by Catherine Trinkle 14 years, 10 months ago

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Born February 7, 1867

 

 
 
 
 

 

1871

·         Little House in the Big Woods
Laura is 4, Mary is 6
Pepin, WI

 

1869

·         LH on the Prairie
Laura is 2
Independence, KS
Pa is 33 and Ma is 30


1866

·         Farmer Boy
Almanzo is 9
New York


1874-1876

·         On the Banks of Plumb Creek
Laura is 7
Walnut Grove, MN This is where they live in a dugout


1876-1877

·         Burr Oak, IA
The Lost Years

 

 

1877-1879

·         Back to Walnut Grove
Mary becomes blind in 1879

Almanzo, Royal, and Eliza Jane file homestead claims in De Smet in 1879


1879

·         Shores of Silver Lake
Laura is 12
De Smet, S.D.

 

1880

·         The Long Winter
Laura is 13
De Smet

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1881

·         Little Town on the Prairie

·         Laura is 14

·         De Smet


1881

  
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Mary goes to College

 

 

 

1882-1885

·         These Happy Golden Years

·         Laura is 15-18

·         Laura teaches her first school in 1882

 

1885

·         Laura & Almanzo marry

·         Laura is 18, Almanzo is 28

 

1887

·         Pa, Ma, Mary, Carrie, & Grace move into town / De Smet

 

 

 

Notes:  Mary was born January 10, 1865.  When  Laura was born, Pa was 31 and Ma was 28.  Ma was 21 when she married.  Pa died in 1902; he was 67 years old and the first citizen of De Smet.  Mary died in 1928 at age 63.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

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