Estelle Ricketts

[1] She lived with her mother, her younger brother, and her father, who operated a boarding stable.

He ended up in Darby Pennsylvania, taken in by Quakers John and Rachel Hunt.

see https://www.swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library/underground-railroad-and-sharon-female-academy-delaware-county Estelle Ricketts's 1893 parlor piano piece Rippling Spring Waltz is the earliest known piano solo written by a black woman.

[1] Rickets is mentioned in a book entitled "The Work of the Afro-American Woman" written by Gertrude Bustill Mossell.

This book highlights the achievements of African-American women in all different disciplines, and was published in 1908.