Career
She is credited with having written and composed the lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby". By some accounts she created the song in 1872 while babysitting. Because of "Rock-a-bye Baby", she is credited in over 100 films, many made decades after her death.
ROCK-A-BYE, BABY was composed by Effie Crockett Canning in 1886.
Her waltz-lullaby has been sung by millions of mothers. 1894 to Harry J. Carlton born Abt.
July 1859 in Boston, Suffolk, Master of Arts, and died 21 January 1922 in Boston, Suffolk, Master of Arts.