Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest Wakefield

Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest Wakefield (née Nancy Amelia Woodbury Priest; December 7, 1836 - September 21, 1870) was an American poet.

[2] Her fame rests upon the popular poem, "Over the River", published in the Springfield Republican in 1857.

She died at Winchendon, Massachusetts, in 1870,[4] leaving behind her husband and three children, one only an infant.

Her poems were published 13 years after her death by her mother, Mrs. Francis D. Priest, with a memoir by the Rev.

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