Ingalls-Wilder Family
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867-February 10, 1957)
Almanzo James Wilder (February 13 1857-October 23, 1949)
Royal Gould Wilder (February 20, 1847-April 21, 1925)
Cast
Karen Grassle (Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls) February 25, 1942
Charlotte Stewart (Eva Beadle Simms) February 27, 1941
Wedding Anniversaries
Charles & Caroline Ingalls (February 1, 1860)
Ingalls-Wilder Family
Charles Philip Ingalls (January 10, 1836-June 8, 1902)
Mary Amelia Ingalls (January 10, 1865-October 20, 1928)
James Mason Wilder (January 26, 1813-1899
Eliza Jane Wilder Gordon Thayer (January 1850-June 1, 1930)
Cast
Lindsay Kennedy (Jeb Carter) January 4, 1969
Stan Ivar (John Carter) January 11, 1943
Kyle Richards (Alicia Sanderson Edwards/Samantha) January 11, 1969
Katherine MacGregor (Harriet Oleson) January 12, 1925-November 13, 2018)
Jason Bateman (James Cooper) January 14, 1969
Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson Dalton) January 18, 1962
Patricia Neal (Julia Sanderson) January 20, 1926-August 18, 2010)
Ingalls-Wilder Family
Rose Wilder Lane (December 5, 1886--De Smet, SD-October 30, 1968--Danbury, CT)
Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls (December 12, 1839--Brookfield, WI-April 20, 1924--De Smet, SD)
Cast
Victor French (Isaiah Edwards) December 4, 1934--Santa Barbara, CA-June 15, 1989--Los Angeles, CA
Matthew Labyorteaux (Albert Ingalls) December 8, 1966--Los Angeles, CA
Missy Frances (Cassandra Cooper) December 12, 1972--Los Angeles, CA
Cliff Emmich (John Bevins) December 13, 1936--Cincinnati, OH-November 28, 2022--Los Angeles, CA
Wedding Anniversaries
Lamanzo & Laura Ann (Wilder) Howard (December 31, 1874)
Perley Day & Elsie (Merritt) Wilder (December 27, 1897)
Ingalls-Wilder Family
Charles Frederick "Freddie" Ingalls (November 1, 1875--Walnut Grove, MN-August 27, 1876--South Troy, MN)
Cast
Alison Balson (Nancy Oleson) November 19, 1969--Los Angeles, CA
James Karen (Nathan Lassiter) November 28, 1923--Wilkes Barr, PA-October 23, 2018--Los Angeles, CA)
Cast
Moses Gunn (Joe Kagan) October 2, 1929--St. Louis, MO-December 16, 1993--Guilford, CT
Steve Tracy (Percival Dalton/Isaac Cohen) October 3, 1952--Canton, OH-November 27, 1986--Tampa, FL
Robert Casper (Sherwood Montague) October 7, 1924--Milwaukee, WI)
Linwood Boomer (Adam Kendall) October 9, 1955--Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Leslie Landon (Etta Plum/various roles) October 11, 1962--Los Angeles, CA
Michael Landon (Charles Ingalls) October 31, 1936---Forest Hills, NY-July 1, 1991--Malibu, CA
Wedding Anniversaries
Nathan & Grace (Ingalls) Dow October 16, 1901
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"I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" is the moment where Mary Ingalls (Melissa Sue Anderson) goes blind.
Between the show and Mary's actual life, Mary had wanted to be a teacher.
Real-life Mary never did become a teacher, and lived with her parents until their deaths, then with her two younger sisters, Carrie Ingalls-Swanzey and Grace Ingalls-Dow, until her death.
But in the show, Mary went off to Vinton, Iowa in real life (but the show had Mary go off to Burton, Iowa to learn how to function after losing her sight, where she met Adam Kendall (Linwood Boomer), who was her teacher, and later, husband, when Adam invited Mary to teach at the blind school in the fictional town of Winoka, Dakota Territory (based on the Ingalls' final move to De Smet, South Dakota).
While watching the episode, I wonder if the show was trying to show that, despite Mary's blindness, she could fulfill her dream of wanting to be a teacher.
In the show, Mary went on to teach at the Winoka School for the Blind alongside Adam Kendall, who would (at least in the TV show) become Mary's spouse, later moving the school back to Walnut Grove until a fire destroyed the blind school, which would eventually move the blind school to Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.
Ingalls-Wilder Family
Alice Maria Wilder (September 3, 1853--Franklin, NY-February 1892)
Cast
Radames Pera (John Sanderson-Edwards, Jr.) September 14, 1960--New York, NY
Merlin Olsen (Jonathan Garvey) September 15, 1940--Logan, UT-March 11, 2010-City of Hope, Duarte, CA)
Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls Kendall) September 26, 1962--Berkeley, CA
Wedding Anniversaries
Thomas & Eliza Jane (Wilder) Thayer (September 6, 1893)
