She was the youngest sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House on the Prairie books.

On October 16, 1901, she married Nathan William Dow in the parlor of her parents' home in De Smet.

Besides being a farm wife, Dow dabbled in journalism like her older sister Carrie, acting as a stringer for several local newspapers later in her life.

Grace and Carrie took care of their eldest sister Mary, who was blind, after their parents died.

[1][2] Grace died of complications from diabetes in Manchester, South Dakota, on November 10, 1941, at age 64.