Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Jefferson
County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 583.

MRS. MARY ELIZABETH NEALY,
Nee Hare, was born in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 12, 1823, the daughter of a
mechanic; educated in the public schools of that city; was married at 17,
and became a citizen of Indiana.  She was a poetical contributor to the
Louisville Journal, and several of the leading monthly periodicals of the
country, from 1846 to 1860.  Some of her pieces were full of thoughts
deeper and more profound, but few of them sweeter and simpler than the
following; it found its way across the ocean, into the British newspapers.
[Note: Poem shown: "The Little Shoe."]

Nealy Hare
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IN 

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