(Laura's maternal great-great-grandparents) Allan Alexander Morse and Margaret Drummond *These are fictional names.
(Laura's maternal great-grandparents) Lewis Tucker (1779–1870) and Martha Gráinne Morse (1772–1862) William Quiner (1773–1831) and Margaret Doer (1774–1839)
She was the first woman in her family to travel west, living in Ohio and Indiana before settling in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Martha Morse was born on January 2, 1782, in Scotland, where her father was a wealthy landowners in the Scottish Highlands.
Lewis and Martha travelled to the United States and began their new life near Boston, Massachusetts, becoming the first of Laura's ancestors to immigrate to America.