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Wife Anne Virginia Culbertson 1
Born: 16 Nov 1857 1
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Died: 6 Dec 1918 1
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Father: Capt. Howard Culbertson, M.D. (1828-1890) 2
Mother: Louisa Maria Safford (1836-1885) 1
• Document: Samples of the poetry of Anne V. Culbertson.
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General Notes: Wife - Anne Virginia Culbertson
She was educated in the common schools and Putnam Seminary, Zanesville, Ohio. Unmarried. Beginning in 1893 she was engaged as a writer and author-reader, giving entertainments in which she read her own writings and poems and dialect songs. She contributed to magazines and papers in verse and dialect stories chiefly in negro dialect and dialect of mountain whites of the South and French patois.
Author of Lays of a Wandering Minstrel, 1896; At the Big House, 1904 (A Book of Negro and Indian Folk Lore); When the Banjo Talks, 1905. Published by Bobbs, Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
(Extracts from Who's Who in America.)
Some of her best poems were unpublished and were written during the World War. She belonged to the Vigilantes, a national society of poets and writers, formed during the World War to write patriotic articles and poems to stimulate patriotism. A number of these beautiful patriotic poems were published in newspapers and magazines and reprints sent to the sick and wounded soldiers in America and Europe. She numbered among her friends such great writers as Joel Chandler Harris, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, James Whitcomb Riley, etc., etc. She at one time spent a summer in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina in order to study the folk-lore of the Indians there. She stated that many of these Indian stories were given by the Indians to the Negroes and thus quite a number of folk-lore stories of the latter originated. She studied the Negroes in Virginia.