Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Campbell County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 585. MRS. HELEN TRUESDELL Was a resident of Newport, Ky., when, in 1856, the 5th edition of a 12mo. volume, 212 pages, of "Poems by Helen Truesdell" was published. She had been a contributor to the Parlor Magazine, the Ladies Repository, and other periodicals. The daily newspapers praised the volume as "possessing high poetic merit." [Note: Poem shown: "The Young Wife's Song."] Truesdell = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/campbell/truesdell.h.txt