In her early youth, she lived with an uncle and aunt in Drumdrissaig, on the western coast of Knapdale.
Norman MacLeod, a Church of Scotland minister and married him four years later.
She spent the next nearly-sixty years as a minister's wife in Campbeltown, Campsie, and at St Columba Church in Glasgow.
She would go on to write and compile a poetry collection called Songs of the North, that would be edited by her granddaughter Annie Campbell MacLeod Wilson, Harold Boulton, and Malcolm Lawson, and which was dedicated to Queen Victoria.
[1] One of the songs it contains is Sound the Pibroch, which is about the Jacobite Uprising of 1745, and which has since been recorded by The Corries and many other Scottish folk music bands.