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 570.

MRS. LAURA M. THURSTON.
     This highly gifted poetress, nee Hawley - born in Connecticut, Dec.,
1812, died in New Albany, Indiana, July 21, 1842, aged 29 - can scarcely
be classed as a Kentucky poetess. And yet she spent so much time in
Louisville, and among appreciative Kentucky friends; her poetic talent was
so generously encouraged and developed by the Louisville Journal and by
Wm. D. Gallagher in his Hesperian; and her intimacy with Mrs. Amelia B.
Welby and other Kentucky poetresses was so charming - as to make it not
improper to preserve the following pieces in memory of her - the second
written by her self, but the first Amelia B. Welby's tribute to her.
[Note: Poems shown: "On the Death of a Sister Poetress" and "The Green
Hills of My Father-Land."]

Thurston Hawley Gallagher Welby
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