Grace Ingalls

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Biography

Following her own public school education, Grace Ingalls studied to become a schoolteacher. When her training was finished, Ingalls taught in the nearby town of Manchester, South Dakota, seven miles west of De Smet, South Dakota, where her family 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, Grace dabbled in journalism like her older sister Carrie, acting as a stringer for several local newspapers later in her life. Grace and Carrie took care of their eldest sister Mary, who was blind, after their parents died.[1][2]

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

Grace 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, with 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:

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External links

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  1. "Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder." biblio.com.
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