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Grace Ingalls

Grace Ingalls

Sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1877–1941)


Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow (/ˈɪŋɡəlz ˈd/; May 23, 1877, in Burr Oak, Iowa November 10, 1941, in Manchester, South Dakota) was the fifth and last child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls. She was the youngest sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House on the Prairie books.

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Biography

Following public school, Grace Ingalls studied to become a schoolteacher. After completing her training, she taught in the nearby town of Manchester, South Dakota, seven miles west of De Smet, South Dakota, where her family had settled. On October 16, 1901, she married Nathan William Dow in the parlor of her parents' home in De Smet. Besides being a farm wife, Dow dabbled in journalism like her older sister Carrie, acting as a stringer for several local newspapers later in her life. After her parents' deaths, she and Carrie took care of their eldest sister Mary, who was blind.[1][2]

Surveyors' House, first home in Dakota Territory of the Charles Ingalls family
De Smet School, first school in De Smet and attended by Grace Ingalls as well as her older sisters Carrie and Laura

Dow died of complications from diabetes in Manchester, South Dakota, on November 10, 1941, at age 64.[3] Diabetes ran in the Ingalls family and Laura, Carrie, and Grace all died from the complications of the disease, Dow being the first Ingalls sibling to succumb. She is buried near the Ingalls family plot at De Smet Cemetery in De Smet, South Dakota; her husband is buried next to her. The couple had no children.

In the media

Dow was portrayed in the television adaptations of Little House on the Prairie by:


References

  1. Benge, Janet and Geoff (2005). Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life. YWAM Publishing. ISBN 1-932096-32-9.
  2. "Pioneer Kingsbury Resident Succumbs". The Daily Argus-Leader. November 15, 1941.
  3. Koskan, Danie (September 4, 2009). "Actors fondly remember 'Little House on the Prairie'". Rapid City Journal.

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