Almira Edson

Almira Edson (January 20, 1803 – December 14, 1886) was an American folk artist, known as the painter of a series of distinctive family registers.

Jesse died in 1805, and Rebecca married Captain Edward Adams of nearby Colrain, Massachusetts, where her family moved when Almira was seven.

As an adult she painted, in or near Halifax, Vermont, a series of family registers which are unusual in that they also incorporate features of the mourning picture.

[1] Her first work to come to public attention was the register of the Woodard family, painted around 1837 in watercolor and ink, which was discussed by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester in The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776–1876 in 1974.

The couple asked Noyes for permission to marry, but he refused; consequently, while he was away the pair eloped to Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where they wed on September 18, 1842.