Julia Dinsmore

March 6, 1833 (age 93)

Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana , United States

At the age of nine, she moved to Boone County, Kentucky, where she resided until her death in 1926. Her She particularly enjoyed writing poetry and sent poems to be printed in the Times-Democrat of New Orleans. In 1910 Doubleday, Page & Company published a collection of these under the title, Verses and Sonnets. Following the death of her father, James Dinsmore, she inherited the Boone farm and continued to manage it until her death in 1926. She faithfully kept a journal for most of this time, giving insight into the life of a woman who lived and wrote during a time of momentous changes for the United States and for women.

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The main house of the farm she inherited from her father and managed for fifty-four years is now on the National Register of Historic Places and is known as the Dinsmore Homestead.

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At the age of nine, she moved to Boone County, Kentucky, where she resided until her death in 1926. Her She particularly enjoyed writing poetry and sent poems to be printed in the Times-Democrat of New Orleans. In 1910 Doubleday, Page & Company published a collection of these under the title, Verses and Sonnets.

Following the death of her father, James Dinsmore, she inherited the Boone farm and continued to manage it until her death in 1926.

She faithfully kept a journal for most of this time, giving insight into the life of a woman who lived and wrote during a time of momentous changes for the United States and for women.

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