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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 11:12 AM
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Today's Useless Political Trivia
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (of "Little House on the Prairie" fame) was born to parents Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake (Quiner) Ingalls. Charles' paternal grandmother (and Laura's great grandmother) was Margaret Delano, of the famed Delano family.

The Delano family in America was founded by Philippe Delano (de Lannoy), a 19-year-old Separatist of Walloon descent who arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts on November 9, 1621 on the ship Fortune.

Direct descendants of the Delanos include not only Laura Ingalls Wilder, but also President Ulysses S. Grant, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, poet Conrad Potter Aiken, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.



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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-16-07 11:28 AM
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1. Very interesting!
Also makes her related to the writers Joan Aiken and Jane Aiken Hodge, as they were Conrad Aiken's daughters.

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