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 at age 15 from scarlet fever.
Mary Ingalls, she was the oldest of the children.
In the book she did but in the show she just goes to a blind school and then is done her schooling.
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.
Mary became blind because of the scarlet fever
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!