Margaret G. Hays

Hays was born Margaret Parker on July 3, 1874, to George, an art publisher,[1] and Mary Jane (née Fitzgerald) Gebbie.

[2][1] Hayes worked with her sister, Grace Drayton, on a number of comic strips and children's books, including The Turr’ble Tales of Kaptain Kiddo.

Along with writing comic strips and children's illustrated books, Hays wrote poetry and was published in a number of magazines.

[9] Hays died on September 13, 1925, in Philadelphia, aged 51 years, and is buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

A concert of music that included pieces from Hays' Vegetable Verselets for Humorous Vegetarians was performed on April 29, 2012 at Virginia Tech.