Nathaniel Josselyn [Parents] was born on 11 Nov 1729 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died in UNKNOWN. Nathaniel married Martha Fairbanks.

Other marriages:

Bennett, Mary Sarah

Martha Fairbanks died in UNKNOWN. Martha married Nathaniel Josselyn.

Nathaniel Josselyn [Parents] was born on 11 Nov 1729 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died in UNKNOWN. Nathaniel married Mary Sarah Bennett.

Other marriages:

Fairbanks, Martha

Mary Sarah Bennett was born in 1737. She died in UNKNOWN. Mary married Nathaniel Josselyn.

Samuel Josselyn [Parents] was born on 19 May 1738 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died in UNKNOWN. Samuel married Abigail Wilder.

Abigail Wilder died in UNKNOWN. Abigail married Samuel Josselyn.

Abijah Josselyn [Parents] was born on 24 Jan 1744 in Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 1 Sep 1811. Abijah married Keziah Farrar.

Other marriages:

Farrar, Keziah

Keziah Farrar was born on 18 May 1746. She died on 23 Mar 1827. Keziah married Abijah Josselyn.

Other marriages:

Josselyn, Abijah

Abijah Josselyn [Parents] was born on 24 Jan 1744 in Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 1 Sep 1811. Abijah married Keziah Farrar.

Other marriages:

Farrar, Keziah

Keziah Farrar was born on 18 May 1746. She died on 23 Mar 1827. Keziah married Abijah Josselyn.

Other marriages:

Josselyn, Abijah

James Mason Wilder [Parents] was born on 26 Jan 1813 in Windham, Vermont, USA. He died in 1899 in Mermentau, Acadia, Louisiana, USA. James married Angeline Albina Day on 6 Aug 1843 in Malone, Franklin, New York, USA.

Angeline Albina Day was born on 6 Mar 1813 in Windham, Vermont, USA. She died in UNKNOWN. Angeline married James Mason Wilder on 6 Aug 1843 in Malone, Franklin, New York, USA.

Almanzo James Wilder [Parents] was born on 13 Feb 1857 in Malone, Franklin, New York, USA. He died in UNKNOWN. Almanzo married Laura Elizabeth Ingalls on 25 Aug 1885 in De Smet, Kingsbury, South Dakota, USA.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born on 7 Feb 1867 in Pepin, Wisconsin, USA. She died on 10 Feb 1957 in Mansfield, Wright, Missouri, USA. Laura married Almanzo James Wilder on 25 Aug 1885 in De Smet, Kingsbury, South Dakota, USA.

American writer, famous for a series of historical novels for children known collectively as the Little House books. Laura Ingalls was born near Pepin, Wisconsin. She trained to be a teacher and taught for several years before marrying farmer Almanzo Wilder in 1885. After enduring a series of hardships, they moved to Missouri in 1894 and settled on Rocky Ridge Farm near Mansfield.

When Wilder was in her sixties, her daughter urged her to write down her vivid childhood memories of growing up on the American frontier. The Little House series, loosely based on Wilder's life, gives a detailed and realistic portrayal of pioneer family life, full of warmth, humor, and drama. Beginning with Little House in the Big Woods (1932), the Wisconsin cabin in which she was born, Wilder chronicles her family's westward migration to the Little House on the Prairie (1935) in Kansas, to Minnesota On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), and finally to the Dakota Territory By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939). The Long Winter (1940), Little Town on the Prairie (1941), and These Happy Golden Years (1943) describe Laura's teenage years, her first teaching assignment, and her marriage to Wilder, whose childhood story is told in Farmer Boy (1933).

Three books were published after her death: The First Four Years (1971), the last in the Little House series, which tells of Laura and Almanzo's early married life; On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894, with her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane (1962); and West from Home (1974), a collection of letters she wrote to Almanzo while visiting San Francisco in 1915. Roger Lea MacBride, editor of West From Home and Lane's adopted grandson, has written two books which continue the Wilders' story and which are told from Rose's perspective; Little House on Rocky Ridge (1993) and Little Farm in the Ozarks (1994).

Starting with On the Banks of Plum Creek, the last five Little House books published during Wilder's lifetime were named Newbery Honor Books (see Newbery Medal). In 1954 she was the recipient of the first Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, given by the American Library Association. Named in her honor, this award is presented every three years to an author or illustrator who has made a "substantial and lasting contribution" to literature for children. Wilder's Little House books were the inspiration for a popular television series, "Little House on the Prairie," which aired in the 1970s and 1980s. ("Wilder, Laura Ingalls," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.)

Frederick Sherman Spooner [Parents] was born on 22 Nov 1923. He died on 25 Jan 1970. Frederick married Nancy Russo.

Pharmacist and Science teacher.

Nancy Russo was born on 2 Dec 1922. She died in UNKNOWN in Manhattan, Kings, New York, USA. Nancy married Frederick Sherman Spooner.

William Wilder [Parents] was born on 4 Sep 1717 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died in UNKNOWN. William married Sarah Sawyer.

Sarah Sawyer was born in Jun 1727 in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died in UNKNOWN. Sarah married William Wilder.

Daniel Wilder [Parents] was born on 21 Aug 1764 in Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died in 1851 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA. Daniel married Polly Gould in 1783 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, USA.

Polly Gould was born in 1765. She died in 1828 in Vermont, USA. Polly married Daniel Wilder in 1783 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, USA.