[2] She was one of eleven children of Jemima Harris Balls and William Wetherald, the founder and principal of Rockwood Academy, and later a Quaker minister.

[7] She wrote both prose and verse as a contributor to The Christian Union, The Chicago Current, The Week, Canadian Magazine, and Saturday Night.

[8] She also worked as an editor and contributor for The Globe using the pen name Bel Thistlethwaite, and was part of the editorial staff for The Advertiser in London, Ontario.

[9] In 1921, she published a book entitled Tree Top Morning, which she dedicated to her daughter Dorothy Rungeling who also became an author.

[10] In the last few years of her life, she contributed to the Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune children's column "Patty Perkins Club".