BIOS: Mrs. Mary E. Wilson Betts, Mason Co., KY

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Contributed by: Sandi Gorin 
Date: 2-23-98
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MRS MARY E WILSON BETTS

Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.& U.
P.James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Mason County. The Poets and
Poetry of Kentucky, Page 584.

MRS. MARY E. WILSON BETTS, Nee Wilson, was born in or near Maysville, Ky., in 1823;
was married in the summer of 1854 to one of the editors of the Detroit News; and died
at Maysville, of congestion of the brain, Sept. 16,1854, age 31; her death was
believed to be one of the results of the great gunpowder explosion, on Aug. 13, 1854,
at Maysville, within a quarter of a mile where she was lying sick at the time (see
page 72, ante); her husband  died in the month of Oct. following. During ten years
before her marriage,Mrs. B. published many short poems, some of them of considerable
merit. The following, by no means her best, is the only one immediately accessible.