Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1850-1919)
- Writer
Famous American poet and author. She wrote numerous poems starting when
she was 7 years old. She would go on to write poems such as The Price
He Paid, Inherited Passions, The Beautiful Lie and The Belle of the
Season amoung other. In her later years she went to the battle fields
in France during World War 1 to lecture to the soldiers, and assist
with the Red Cross. While in France Ella became ill and was taken back
to the United States where she died of Cancer at her Short Beach
estate. She was cremated and sealed in a vault with her husbands ashes
on the property.
