"a pretty girl, with dark eyes and black curls"
Because Mary Ingalls and Eva Huleatt* walk together and talk nicely while Laura and Clarence climbed trees (apparently Pa didn't grub out all the sprouts), I always pictured Eva to be about Mary's age. She wasn't. Eva was born in 1870, so she was the same age as Carrie.

Eva remained single until after the death of both parents. At age 36, she married Watson Leitch (hmmm, Mary Power's sister married a Leitch) from Maiden Rock, and they moved to Colorado and then to Illinois.

Too bad Eva wasn't in Chicago during the Hard Winter, or I'd suspect her family of being the "friends in Chicago."

*See William Anderson's Laura Ingalls Wilder Country for a photo of Eva Huleatt.

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