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GREENWOOD, ALICE DAVIS ODEKIRK (MRS. ALBERT): 1850-1936.

Alice Davis , daughter of Oliver P. Davis, was born in Vermillion County, Ind., on Jan. 8, 1850. She was educated at St. Mary-of-the-Woods and at Colby College.

After her first husband's death she married Albert Greenwood, and they traveled a great deal, living in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois, Alabama, California, and Canada. She eventually returned to Indiana and lived at Rockville until her death in 1936. Mrs. Greenwood contributed poems and prose to papers and magazines. She sometimes wrote under the name of "Aunt Jemina."

Information from the Rockville Public Library.

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