Helen Keller was born on June 27,1880, in Tuscumbia, a little country in northern Alabama. When Helen Keller was eighteen months old, she got a severe illness, which was meningitis. After the illness, Helen had lost her sense of sight, hearing, and became mute. At age five, Helen Keller learned to fold and put away her clothes neatly, which was a difficult task for her to do, because she had lost