Her best known productions were "Woodland Warblings", "American Rifle Team March", and "I Will Not Leave You Comfortless".

Her mother was a direct descendant of Anna Warner Bailey, of Revolutionary fame, who tore up her flannel petticoat to make wadding for the guns in battle.

[4] Her musical and poetical abilities appeared in her childhood, and she was, while yet a girl, a proficient musician, a fine singer and a writer of notable verse.

At the age of five years, she composed little airs, and at fourteen, she wrote her musical compositions in form for publication and preservation.

[5] Mr. Munson and his daughter moved to Lagrange, Missouri and then to Winchester, Tennessee, where she received a good education in the Mary Sharp College.

Among her best known productions are "Woodland Warblings", "Home Sonata", "American Rifle Team March", and "I Will Not Leave You Comfortless".

She set to music for voice and piano Lincoln's favorite poem, "Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?".

[3] She held salons with a large circle of temperance and religious workers, and musical, literary and patriotic persons.