WILLSON, ELIZABETH CONWELL SMITH (MRS. BYRON FORCEYTHE): 1842-1864.
Elizabeth Conwell Smith was born at Laurel, Ind., on June 26, 1842. She attended De Pauw College for Women in New Albany , where she met and married Byron Forceythe Willson in the fall of 1863.
The young couple removed to Cambridge, Mass., soon after their marriage, where they made a home for themselves and for Willson's brother, then a student in Harvard College.
Mrs. Willson died in Cambridge on Oct. 13, 1864. only a year after her marriage. She was buried at Laurel, Ind. After her death her husband gathered together a few of her poems and published them privately.
Information from Piatt, John James–"An Ohio Valley Poet" in The Hesperian Tree, 1900.
- Poems. Cambridge, 1866.
