![]() ![]() ![]() They had a daughter and a son, but the little boy died in infancy. There she met Almanzo Wilder, who she married when she was 18. Laura Ingalls went to school for a time and began working as a teacher when she was only 15 years old. One winter, the entire community of De Smet was cut off from the rest of the area by continuous blizzards. Backbreaking labor, solitude, and natural disasters were commonplace to most homesteading families, and the Ingalls' were no exception. While homesteading in De Smet, the Ingalls family faced many of the same hardships that nearly all homesteaders experienced. Besides Wisconsin, They also lived in Kansas, Iowa, and Minnesota before becoming homesteaders. While she was growing up, her family moved several times before settling on 160 acres of homesteading land in South Dakota. Laura Ingalls Wilder was born to Charles and Caroline Ingalls in Wisconsin in 1867. ![]()
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