Janet Hamilton

They lived together at Langloan for about sixty years, and had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, all of whom she taught to read, starting with the alphabet.

Before she was twenty years old, she had written numerous verses on religious themes, but family cares prevented further composition until she was about fifty-four.

[3] Then she began to write essays for a supplement to Cassell's Working Man's Friend, as well as poems in English and Scots and reminiscences of village and rural Scotland during her youth.

[4] During the last 18 years of her life she was blind, and her husband and one of her daughters, Marion (28 January 1824 - 28 February 1900), read to her.

[3] A large crowd of people attended her funeral, and a memorial fountain has been placed nearly opposite her cottage.