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Died 21 September 1870, Winchendon, Massachusetts, United States | ||
Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest Wakefield (née Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest; 7 December 1836 - 21 September 1870) was an American poet.
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Life
She was born at Royalston, Massachusetts, in 1836. Her maiden name was Priest, and in 1865, she was married to Lieut. Arlington C. Wakefield. Her fame rests upon the popular poem, "Over the River", published in the Springfield Republican in 1857. Her poems were published by her mother, Mrs. Francis D. Priest, with a memoir by the Rev. Abijah Perkins Marvin (Boston, 1871). She died at Winchendon, Massachusetts, in 1870.
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