The real Mary Ingalls went blind when she was just 15 years old. In real life, she never married nor had any children.
Mary Ingalls went blind around the age of 14 due to scarlet fever, as depicted in the Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Mary Ingalls goes blind in Little House on the Prairie's fourth season, which aired in 1978.
There is no "date"; Mary lost her sight gradually as the optic nerves wasted away. She was completely blind by early spring of 1879.
Sometime in the late winter or early spring of 1879, when she was fourteen years old.
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Mary Ingalls went blind at age 15 from scarlet fever.
Mary Ingalls, she was the oldest of the children.
No, Mary Ingalls did not go to college. She became blind after contracting an illness as a child and faced challenges that hindered her ability to pursue further education.
Mary Ingalls was blind. Older sister of Laura Ingalls
She became blind at Walnut Grove,Minnesota.
Mary Ingalls was an exceptional student; in both regular school and in her college for the blind.
We learn about Mary's loss in On The Shores of Silver Lake but she had lost her eyesight a little before that, when Caroline, Carrie, Grace and Mary all caught the measles or as they called it, scarlet fever.
No. Her older blind sister, Mary Amelia Ingalls, was.
Laura Ingalls was 14 years old when her sister Mary Ingalls became blind at the age of 14 due to illness.
Yes, Mary Ingalls, Laura Ingalls Wilder's sister, attended a school for the blind in Vinton, Iowa, after losing her sight. This experience is documented in Laura's book series "Little House on the Prairie."
Laura's sister Mary was born, lived and died as Mary Ingalls. She never married.
I think she wanted to be a teacher so that she could help Mary go to blind school!