Suggested edit: Wilhelmina "Willie" Franklin Pruitt (January 11, 1860 - February 22, 1947) was an American poet who wrote under the pen-name of Aylmer Ney.
Wilhelmina "Willie" Franklin Pruitt was born in Tennessee, on January 11, 1860. Her parents moved to Texas at the close of the Civil War, while she was an infant, and the larger part of her life was spent in that state. She belonged to one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of Tennessee. She received a liberal and thorough education. While in school, she displayed unusual intellectual powers.[1]
She began to write verses when she was a child, and at the age of thirteen years she contributed to the local press. Most of her poems have been published under the pen-name "Aylmer Ney". Her reputation extended throughout the South.[1]
She was engaged in charitable and public enterprises. She was vice-president of the Woman's Humane Association of Fort Worth, and through her exertions the city had a number of handsome drinking fountains for man and beast.[1]
She was a member of the Texas board of lady managers of the World's Fair Exhibit Association, and she worked actively and intelligently in its interests.[1]
In 1887, Franklin became the wife of Drew Pruitt (1860-1937), a lawyer, of Fort Worth, Texas, in which city she moved. She had one son.[1]
She died on February 22, 1947, in San Antonio, Texas and is buried at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. p. 601. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Contributor: Elisa Rolle (48982101)
Wilhelmina "Willie" Franklin Pruitt was born in Tennessee, on January 11, 1860. Her parents moved to Texas at the close of the Civil War, while she was an infant, and the larger part of her life was spent in that state. She belonged to one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of Tennessee. She received a liberal and thorough education. While in school, she displayed unusual intellectual powers.[1]
She began to write verses when she was a child, and at the age of thirteen years she contributed to the local press. Most of her poems have been published under the pen-name "Aylmer Ney". Her reputation extended throughout the South.[1]
She was engaged in charitable and public enterprises. She was vice-president of the Woman's Humane Association of Fort Worth, and through her exertions the city had a number of handsome drinking fountains for man and beast.[1]
She was a member of the Texas board of lady managers of the World's Fair Exhibit Association, and she worked actively and intelligently in its interests.[1]
In 1887, Franklin became the wife of Drew Pruitt (1860-1937), a lawyer, of Fort Worth, Texas, in which city she moved. She had one son.[1]
She died on February 22, 1947, in San Antonio, Texas and is buried at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. p. 601. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Contributor: Elisa Rolle (48982101)
Suggested edit: Wilhelmina "Willie" Franklin Pruitt (January 11, 1860 - February 22, 1947) was an American poet who wrote under the pen-name of Aylmer Ney.
Wilhelmina "Willie" Franklin Pruitt was born in Tennessee, on January 11, 1860. Her parents moved to Texas at the close of the Civil War, while she was an infant, and the larger part of her life was spent in that state. She belonged to one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of Tennessee. She received a liberal and thorough education. While in school, she displayed unusual intellectual powers.[1]
She began to write verses when she was a child, and at the age of thirteen years she contributed to the local press. Most of her poems have been published under the pen-name "Aylmer Ney". Her reputation extended throughout the South.[1]
She was engaged in charitable and public enterprises. She was vice-president of the Woman's Humane Association of Fort Worth, and through her exertions the city had a number of handsome drinking fountains for man and beast.[1]
She was a member of the Texas board of lady managers of the World's Fair Exhibit Association, and she worked actively and intelligently in its interests.[1]
In 1887, Franklin became the wife of Drew Pruitt (1860-1937), a lawyer, of Fort Worth, Texas, in which city she moved. She had one son.[1]
She died on February 22, 1947, in San Antonio, Texas and is buried at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. p. 601. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Contributor: Elisa Rolle (48982101)
Wilhelmina "Willie" Franklin Pruitt was born in Tennessee, on January 11, 1860. Her parents moved to Texas at the close of the Civil War, while she was an infant, and the larger part of her life was spent in that state. She belonged to one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of Tennessee. She received a liberal and thorough education. While in school, she displayed unusual intellectual powers.[1]
She began to write verses when she was a child, and at the age of thirteen years she contributed to the local press. Most of her poems have been published under the pen-name "Aylmer Ney". Her reputation extended throughout the South.[1]
She was engaged in charitable and public enterprises. She was vice-president of the Woman's Humane Association of Fort Worth, and through her exertions the city had a number of handsome drinking fountains for man and beast.[1]
She was a member of the Texas board of lady managers of the World's Fair Exhibit Association, and she worked actively and intelligently in its interests.[1]
In 1887, Franklin became the wife of Drew Pruitt (1860-1937), a lawyer, of Fort Worth, Texas, in which city she moved. She had one son.[1]
She died on February 22, 1947, in San Antonio, Texas and is buried at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas.
Source: Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. p. 601. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Contributor: Elisa Rolle (48982101)
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