Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow was born on May 23, 1877 in Burr Oak, Iowa, youngest sister of Laura. Once she graduated from school, she began teaching in Manchester, South Dakota.
On October 16, 1901, she married Nathan William Dow in the parlor of her parents’ home in De Smet. Grace was involved with journalism like her older sister Carrie, acting as a stringer for several local newspapers. After her parents deaths, she and her older sister, Carrie, took care of their eldest sister Mary, who was blind.
Grace died of complications from diabetes in Manchester, South Dakota, on November 10, 1941 at the age of 64.