Mary Amelia Ingalls
[1865-1928]
Mary Amelia Ingalls
Born: January 10, 1865 Pepin, Pepin County Wisconsin
Died: October 17, 1928 Keystone, Pennington County South Dakota
Spouse: Single
Parents: Charles Phillips Ingalls, Caroline Lake Quiner
Occupation: House Keeper/ Piano Player
Cause of Death: General Debility
Date of Burial: October 28, 1928
Death Certificate #: 118560
Age at Death: YRS: 63 MOS: 9 DYS: 5
Interment: De Smet Cemetery De Smet Kingsbury County South Dakota
Name: Mary Ingalls Certificate Number: 118560 Death Day: 17 Death Month: Oct Death Year: 1928 County: Pennington Page Number: 444
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School For the
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http://www.aph.org/museum/MaryScript.html
Mary Amelia Ingalls- Biography
Mary Amelia Ingalls was the first child of
Charles and Caroline Ingalls and was born on January 10, 1865, in Pepin,
Wisconsin. Mary was a character in all of the Little House books and Mary and
Laura were inseparable.
When
Mary was fourteen years old, she became severely ill. Her illness, which is
variously described as scarlet fever (in the books) and meningitis, resulted in a stroke which
caused Mary to go blind. Laura then became Mary's "eyes", describing
everything around them to her sister.
In
1881, the Dakota Territory paid for Mary to attend the Iowa School for the Blind in Vinton,
Iowa (know known as the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School). She graduated in
1889, and returned to De Smet, South Dakota to live with her parents.
Like
most blind women of the time, Mary never
married, and lived with her parents until their deaths. Mary then lived with
Grace and her husband. In Keystone South Dakota, Mary died on October 17, 1928
at the home of her younger sister Carrie.
Some
of Mary's beadwork, as well as her special Braille slate and bible are housed
at the Mansfield Museum while many of her other possessions are housed at De
Smet.
Source:
http://www.laurasprairiehouse.com/family/maryingalls.html
FIndagrave.com
Folk
and literary figure. Born the eldest child of Charles and Caroline Ingalls in
Pepin County, Wisconsin on her father's birthday. At the age of 14 she fell ill
with what was then described as brain fever. Although she recovered, the
illness robbed her of her sight. In 1881, Mary enrolled in the Iowa Braille and
Sight Saving School in Vinton, Iowa. Mary's academic achievements were
considered exceptionally high, in addition to academic subjects she excelled in
music sewing, beadwork, knitting, hammock and fly net tying. Mary graduated in
June 1889, one of eight in her graduating class. After graduation she returned
to De Smet where she lived with her parents. After her father's death, she made
fly nets in order to supplement the family income. She was active in the
church, and taught Sunday school classes. With the death of her mother in 1924,
Mary moved in with her sister, Grace, before settling in with her sister
Carrie, at Keystone, South Dakota. She never married. At the age of 63, she
succumbed to pneumonia, and was interred in the family plot at De Smet. Her
sister, Laura, would later immortalize the family in the popular ‘Little House'
series of books.
Taken By Jeannette K. ROok
April 12, 2014
Source:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3952April 12, 2014
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"We regret to report the death of Miss Mary Ingalls."
On October 17, 1928, an elderly blind woman named Mary Amelia
Ingalls died in a small rural community in South Dakota. Her obituary in the
local newspaper was brief: "Miss Ingalls passed away at the home of her
sister, Mrs. D.N. Swanzey. She suffered another stroke a few days before her
death, after a year of ill health following former strokes. Funeral services
will be held at the Congregational Church Friday at two o'clock." No one,
other than her friends and relatives, was particularly interested in Mary's
life, in her story. Yet just four years later, her name was known to people all
across the country, and she was loved by thousands and thousands of young
girls, some of whom aspired to be just as good and kind and sweet as she was,
though most preferred her mischievous and much livelier younger sister, the one
who always forgot to wear her sunbonnet, was crazy for horses, and got into all
kinds of scrapes.
That
sister was named Laura. Laura Ingalls Wilder, the celebrated children's author.
Laura's fictionalized accounts of her childhood experiences on the western
frontier, hand-written in soft pencil on lined yellow paper, eventually filled
seven books. The story they tell is as much Mary's as Laura's, though the first
book in the Little House series was published four years after Mary's death
Source:
http://www.aph.org/museum/MaryScript.html
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