Following her own public school education, Grace Ingalls studied to become a schoolteacher. When her training was finished, Ingalls taught in the nearby town of
Manchester, South Dakota, seven miles west of
De Smet, South Dakota, where her family settled. On October 16, 1901, she married Nathan William Dow in the parlor of her parents' home in De Smet. Besides being a farm wife, Grace dabbled in journalism like her older sister
Carrie, acting as a
stringer for several local newspapers later in her life. Grace and Carrie cared for their eldest sister,
Mary, who was blind, after their parents died. Grace died of complications from
diabetes in
Manchester, South Dakota, on November 10, 1941, at age 64. Diabetes ran in the Ingalls family and Laura,
Carrie, and Grace all died from the complications of the disease, with Dow being the first Ingalls sibling to succumb. She is buried near the Ingalls family plot at
De Smet Cemetery in
De Smet, South Dakota; her husband is buried next to her. The couple had no children. ==In the media==