
Ingalls was a descendant of the Delano family, the ancestral family of U.S. Ingalls Wilder's birth site is commemorated by a replica log cabin at the Little House Wayside in Pepin. Three more children would follow, Caroline Celestia (Carrie), Charles Frederick, who died in infancy, and Grace Pearl. She was the second of five children, following older sister, Mary Amelia.

Ingalls' home in Pepin became the setting for her first book, Little House in the Big Woods (1932). At the time of Ingalls' birth, the family lived seven miles north of the village of Pepin, Wisconsin, in the Big Woods region of Wisconsin. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born to Charles Phillip and Caroline Lake (née Quiner) Ingalls on February 7, 1867.
