Caroline ingalls biography little house

American schoolteacher (–

Caroline Lake Ingalls (); née Quiner; (December 12, &#;&#; April 20, ) was an American schoolteacher who was the mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House books.

She is depicted as the character "Ma" in the books and the television series.

Caroline ingalls biography little house

Biography

Childhood

Further information: List of real-life individuals from Little House on the Prairie §&#;The Quiners

Caroline was born 15 miles west of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the Town of Brookfield, Waukesha County.^[1] She was the fifth of seven children of Henry and Charlotte Quiner.

Her brothers were Joseph, Henry, and Thomas, and her sisters were Martha, and Eliza. (The Quiners' first child, Martha Morse Quiner, died in )

When Caroline was 5, her father died while serving as second mate on a ship that capsized and sank on Lake Michigan near the Straits of Mackinac.

There were no survivors. In , her mother married farmer Frederick Holbrook. Th