Annie Wall Barnett
"A Woman of the Century"
"A Woman of the Century"
BornAnnie Carpenter
September 19, 1859
Crawford County, Wisconsin or Richland County, Wisconsin
DiedSeptember 3/4, 1942
Modesto, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • writer
  • poet
  • litterateur
Spouse
Burton T. Wall
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(m. 1878)​

Mr. Barnett (m. ?)
ChildrenNorma Ruth Wall
Signature

Annie Wall Barnett (née, Annie Carpenter; after first marriage, Annie Carpenter Wall; later, Annie Wall Barnett; September 19, 1859 – September 3/4, 1942) was an American writer,[1] litterateur, and poet.[2] She was considered to be among the leading poets of the Western United States.

Biography

Annie Carpenter was born in either Richland County, Wisconsin[3] or Crawford County, Wisconsin, September 19, 1859.[1] Her father, J. B. Carpenter, a farmer, was suddenly killed when Annie was three years old.[3] After his death, she lived for about three years with her maternal grandmother in Richmond, Walworth County, Wisconsin. Mrs. Carpenter married again in 1865, and Annie went home to live in Crawford County, until she was twelve years old.[1]

Carpenter's health would not permit school attendance but a portion of the time, and she was educated largely at home.[3]

When twelve years old, upon removing with her mother's family to Grant County, Wisconsin.[1], she was well advanced, and when seventeen, was offered a position as teacher.[3]

Carpenter's first poem was published when she was fourteen years old. She wrote regularly for a few years for Farm and Fireside, and most regularly for the Chicago Sun and Milwaukee Sentinel, as well as many other papers. She wrote for the Pueblo, Colorado, Press for nearly a year, until failing health prevented regular literary work.[1] For more than 40 years, she contributed to The Montfort Mail of Montfort, Wisconsin.[4]

1894

On June 12, 1878, she married Burton T. Wall,[5] of Marion, Indiana. His father, Rev. Alson R. Wall (d. 1907), was actively engaged in ministerial work as a Quaker for over 40 years.[6] Mr. and Mrs. Burton Wall had three children, including Norma Ruth Wall (1891–1964)[5] and two who died in infancy.[1]

In 1884, Annie Wall, now of Montfort, Wisconsin, had written a number of poems in the previous few months which attracted attention in literary circles, and were said to be equal if not superior to any of the productions of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and which entitled her to a place among the leading poets of the American West. In the same year, her failing health determined them to remove to Pueblo, Colorado, where her husband engaged in mercantile business, and Mrs. Wall divided her time between her artistic, literary, and domestic duties.[7][3] By 1899,[8] the family was living in Pueblo, Colorado for the benefit of Annie Wall's health.[1] Some Scattered Leaves, a volume of poetry, was published in 1893.[9] Her ability as an artist enabled her to illustrate her own poems in this book, and in a ribbon-tied booklet of Christmas poems.[3]

In 1905, Annie Wall was living in Red Bluff, California.[10]

By 1915, she was known as Annie Wall Barnett and was living in Patterson, California, where, in November, she underwent a surgical procedure in her home.[11] In August 1919, at the Patterson Fair, Annie Barnett received First premium award on poem and hills of Patterson, nature sketch and paining in oil, as well as Second premium for oil painting, nature sketch of peach.[12]

Annie Wall Barnett died in Maestro hospital, Modesto, California, September 4, 1942.[5][4][lower-alpha 1]

Selected works

  • Some Scattered Leaves, 1893

Notes

  1. ↑ According to Family Search, Barnett died September 3, 1942.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "WALL, Mrs. Annie". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 741. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ↑ The American Blue Book of Biography: Men of 1912–. American Publishers' association. 1914. p. 954. Retrieved 3 October 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 The National cyclopaedia of American biography, being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time. New York: J. T. White company. 1894. p. 70. Retrieved 3 October 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. 1 2 "Gifted Writer Called Home". The Montfort Mail. 1 October 1942. p. 1. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Annie Carpenter Wall 19 September 1859 – 3 September 1942 • GS7Q-KXK". ident.familysearch.org. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Our Father Has Gone to Rest". The Sterling Kansas Bulletin. 8 March 1907. p. 8. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. ↑ "LOCAL NEWS". Lancaster Teller. 31 December 1885. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. ↑ "Compliments, Woodchucks and Potosi". Lancaster Teller. Lancaster, Wisconsin. 9 February 1899. p. 1. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  9. ↑ ""SOME SCATTERED LEAVES." A Charming Volume of Poems by Annie Wall, a Former Contributor to This Paper". Henderson Gold Leaf. 13 April 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. ↑ "FROM ANNIE WALL". Lancaster Teller. 19 January 1905. p. 8. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  11. ↑ "PATTERSON". The Fresno Morning Republican. 22 November 1915. p. 7. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  12. ↑ "Patterson Fair Premium Awards". The Fresno Morning Republican. 25 August 1919. p. 5. Retrieved 3 October 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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