Highlands, Dec. 30—Mrs. Dorothy McPherson Farnsworth, 69, widely known writer of poetry and fiction, died suddenly at her Highlands home Sunday morning. P. T. Farnsworth, her husband, accompanied the body to Lexington, Ky., for burial.
Mrs. Farnsworth was born in Maryland April 12, 1866. Her ancestors were members of fine old Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky families. Besides her husband, Mrs. Farnsworth is survived by a brother, who occupies the chair of English Literature at the University of Georgia.
Mrs. Farnsworth’s literary work was published in a number of the country’s leading magazines, including St. Nicholas children’s magazine; Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly and Scribner’s. She wrote under various names, sometimes using her own. Perhaps her bet known pseudonym was “Robert Emmet Ward.”
Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth for a number of years owned one of the finer homes in Highlands. As a rule they have lived the year round, but occasionally lived elsewhere in the winter.
From page 3 of the Franklin Press and the Highlands Maconian, Franklin, N.C., Jan. 2, 1936
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