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She was the youngest sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House on the Prairie books Dow trained as a schoolteacher, and taught in the former town of Manchester, South Dakota, seven miles west of De Smet, South Dakota, where her family had settled. The couple had no children.
Dow died of complications from diabetes in Manchester, South Dakota on November 10, 1941, aged 64.
Diabetes ran in the Ingalls family and Laura, Carrie, and Grace all eventually died from complications of the disease. Dow was the first of the Ingalls siblings to succumb to the ailment.
She was buried at De Smet Cemetery. Dow was portrayed in the television adaptations of Little House on the Prairie by:
some unknown baby/babies at first and then twins Wendi and Brenda Turnbaugh in the television series Little House on the Prairie and its movie sequel Little House Years
Courtnie Bulletin and Lyndee Probst in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Participant 1 movie.