| Birth: | Mar. 4, 1856
Rockland
Knox County
Maine, USA | | Death: | Jan. 7, 1940
Boston
Suffolk County
Massachusetts, USA | 
Music Composer. Born at Rockland, Massachusetts, in 1856, she was a stage actress also known as Effie Crockett, whom set melody lines to the old Mother Goose rhymes. In 1872, while babysitting, she wrote and composed the song "Rock a Bye Baby". Her song is credited in over a 100 films, many made decades after her death. She died in Boston, on January 7, 1940. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Spouse:
Harry J Carlton (1859 - 1922)*
*Calculated relationship
Search Amazon for Effie Carlton | | | Burial:
Mount Feake Cemetery
Waltham
Middlesex County
Massachusetts, USA |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Mar 04, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 8676 |
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