Jenny Wilder is the niece of Almanzo James Wilder and Laura Ingalls Wilder. She is the child of Royal Wilder, Almanzo Wilder's brother. She likes to swim in the water hole.
Family[]
Royal Wilder (father)
Millie Wilder (mother)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (aunt)
Almanzo Wilder (uncle)
Rose Wilder (cousin)
Un-named Wilder (cousin)
Caroline Ingalls (grand aunt)
Charles Ingalls (grand uncle)
Charlotte Quiner (adoptive great-grandmother, deceased)
Henry Quiner (adoptive great-grandfather, deceased)
Fredrick Holbrook (adoptive step-great-grandfather)
Eliza Jane Wilder (aunt)
Almanzo Wilder (uncle)
Perley Day Wilder (uncle)
Mary Ingalls Kendall (aunt)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (aunt)
Carrie Ingalls (adoptive aunt)
Charles Ingalls Jr. (adoptive uncle,deceased)
Grace Ingalls (aunt)
Albert Quinn Ingalls (adoptive uncle)
James Cooper Ingalls (adoptive uncle)
Cassandra Cooper Ingalls (adoptive aunt)
Un-named Kendall (adoptive cousin, deceased)
Adam Kendall Jr. (adoptive cousin,deceased)
Rose Wilder (cousin)
Un-named Wilder (cousin,deceased)
Biography[]
Laura and Almanzo takes custody of their niece Jenny after her father, Royal Wilder dies. While grieving over his death, she attempts to kill herself by trying to drown hoping that she could reunite with her father in heaven. Her friend Jeb Carter gets there just in time to save her even though he doesn't know how to swim. Laura later teaches her that her parents would want Jenny to live even if they couldn't be with her.
Jenny was temporally held hostage with Laura by the madman Thomas Stark who believed them to be his wife and daughter Constance and Elizabeth who he had recently shot in a fit of rage and madness. Jenny demonstrates wit and great courage as she helps her aunt play along with Stark's madness. Jenny and Laura manage to survive being hurt by the crazed Stark until help arrives. Stark, however was shot dead outside their door when he refused to drop his revolver.
One day while swimming in a lake of Walnut Grove with Jeb, Jason, and Nancy, Jenny realizes that she has lost her locket at the bottom of the lake and wants desperately to find it. She finds it but gets stuck on something attached to the bottom and falls unconscious before she is rescued. She is taken to Dr. Baker and he tells her and her adoptive parents that due to her being down to long she has suffered brain damage due to a lack of oxygen, which will make it hard for her to speak and move. Laura and Almanzo accept this and care for her accordingly.Later, she meets and becomes friends with an old and retired doctor named Marvin Haynes who helps her heal by convincing her and Laura and Almanzo that she can be normal again. After a few months, Jenny recovers and can speak and move properly again.
