Mary Ingalls Goes Blind
Melissa sue anderson played mary ingalls on the tv series nbc nbc via getty images.
Mary ingalls goes blind. Laura ingalls wilder likely became a masterful observer and story teller as she became eyes for mary. The dakota territory paid for her schooling until she graduated on june 12 1889. When mary ingalls sought to return to the iowa college for the blind in 1892 she was informed that it would be impossible because the state of south dakota had appropriated no money for the education of the blind mrs.
Mary ingalls the sister to laura ingalls wilder who penned the beloved little house on the prairie series likely suffered from meningoencephalitis caused by bacteria a new study claims. But one thing i will never forget about little house on the prairie is the episode in which mary ingalls melissa sue anderson went blind. In the little house series mary ingalls was blinded by scarlet fever.
Mary amelia ingalls was born in pepin county wisconsin on january 10 1865. Mary had become totally blind at the age of fourteen due to what was then classified as brain fever a general term used to encompass a span. Mary amelia ingalls january 10 1865 october 20 1928 was born near the town of pepin wisconsin she was the first child of caroline and charles ingalls and older sister of author laura ingalls wilder known for her little house book series.
Later mary thrived at the iowa college for the blind in vinton iowa. 4 2013 5 08 am utc. By melissa dahl nbc news.
Mary ingalls portrait of a nineteenth century blind woman. Her father was charles ingalls a pioneer farmer who later homesteaded near desmet kingsbury county south dakota territory. Robert carothers to mary ingalls dec.
Audioscript by katie fraser carpenter 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. What really made mary ingalls go blind.
