Julia Stockton Dinsmore was born on the Black Bayou Plantation in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana on March 6, 1833.
James Dinsmore owned up to 15 enslaved people until 1865 and had white tenant farmers to operate the farm.
[3] She played the piano, sang, and was proficient in foreign languages, Latin, French, Greek, German, and Italian.
Her brother-in-law Charles E. Flandrau sent his daughters Martha and Sarah, known as Patty and Sally, to be raised by their aunt.
[1] After suffering from a hip fracture, Dinsmore died at Sally's home in Santa Barbara, California on April 19, 1926.
[1] In 1910, Doubleday, Page & Company published a collection under the title, Verses and Sonnets,[1][4] including Noon in a Blue Green Pasture and Love Among the Roses.