Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Death – Cause and Date

The autobiographer Laura Ingalls died at the age of 90. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Author of the autobiographical American pioneer-themed Little House on the Prairie series. Her family’s years in Wisconsin became the basis of two of the most popular books in the series: Little House on the Prairie and Little House in the Big Woods.

She was the second oldest of five children born to Caroline Lake Ingalls and Charles Phillip Ingalls. In her late teens, she married Almanzo Wilder. The couple had one surviving child, Rose (born 1886), and their marriage was strained by a combination of illness, disability, and drought.

Quotes

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“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

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“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

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“Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

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“Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

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“Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary’s eyes, and Mary was blind.” (Laura Ingalls Wilder)