Mary Ingalls, she was the oldest of the children.
She became blind at Walnut Grove,Minnesota.
No. Her older blind sister, Mary Amelia Ingalls, was.
1st- Mary Ingalls, 2nd- Laura Ingalls, 3rd- Caroline "Carrie" Ingalls, 4th- Charles Frederick "Freddie" Ingalls (died at 9 months of age) 5th Grace Ingalls
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."
I think she wanted to be a teacher so that she could help Mary go to blind school!
Mary Ingalls was blind. Older sister of Laura Ingalls
She had three sisters. Mary the oldest, died from pneumonia and complications from a stroke. Diabetes ran in the Ingalls family and Laura, Carrie, and Grace all eventually died from complications of the disease.
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder or Bess Actually her nickname was given to her by Almanzo Wilder, later to become her husband, was Beth. Not Bess. He gave her that nickname from her middle name Elizabeth. Laura's nickname for Almanzo was Manly, even though his friends called him Manny.
Mary became blind because of the scarlet fever
She did play a little, but mostly for enjoyment. She picked up a few chords when her sister Mary learned at 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.
Mary Ingalls is famous for being one of the main characters in the "Little House on the Prairie" book series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, her sister. The series chronicles the adventures and hardships of the Ingalls family as they pioneer in the American Midwest during the late 19th century.