Author: Thompson, Amira
Biography:
THOMPSON, Amira (1801-39: ancestry.com)
She was born in Newtown (later Elmira) NY, daughter of General Matthew Carpenter (1759-1839) and his wife Catherine Matthews (d 1830). She married the local drayman, Robert Thompson--at what date is not certain--and the couple had at least two children, a daughter Amira and a son, Jerry, who succeeded his father as drayman. She died in Elmira and was buried in the Baptist Cemetery there; later her remains were removed to Woodlawn Cemetery. According to her preface, some of the poems had previously appeared in newspapers under the pseudonym "Victoria." (ancestry.com 24 Nov. 2020; findagrave.com 24 Nov. 2020; A. B. Galatian & Co., History of Elmira [1868]; Ausburn Towner, Our County and its People [1892], 65) HJ