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.
[Note: Poem shown: "A Kentuckian Kneels To None But God."]

Betts Wilson
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MI

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