Biography:

Teacher, song writer. Born– February 7, 1859, Mobile. Parents– William Thomas and Julia Ann (Crooker) Ayers. Married– Paul Jones Robert, November 24, 1879. Education– Cathedral Parish in Mobile; Springfield, Massachusetts, Home Correspondence School, 1919. Taught at Mrs. C. Mullekin School, 1892. Member, later president, of the Mobile Branch of the League American Penwomen and the St. Joseph’s Ladies Mutual Benevolent Association. Founder and supervisor of the St. Joseph’s Junior Benevolent Association; Mobile Poetry Group. Songs include Lemme see yer laugh, America First, and Dear Land of Tallapoosa. Early poems published in booklets–A School Time Souvenir, Mary’s First Kiss, The Wheat of Bethlehem, and The Porter’s Trip.  Died March 21, 1941.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography and Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928.

Publication(s):

Sun-kissed Yesterdays. Mobile, Ala.; s.n., 1923.