Born: Sep­tem­ber 4, 1824, Ham­il­ton Coun­ty, Ohio.

Died: Ju­ly 31, 1871, New­port, Rhode Is­land.

Buried: Her bo­dy was re­turned to New York for bur­i­al “from All Souls” in Green-Wood Cem­e­te­ry, Brook­lyn, New York, next to her sis­ter.

Cary and her sis­ter Alice wrote po­e­try that ap­peared in num­er­ous news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. They moved to New York in 1852. Phoebe’s works in­clude:

Sources

Hymns

  1. Go and Sow Beside All Waters
  2. Great Waves of Plenty Rolling Up
  3. I Had Drunk, with Lips Unsated
  4. One Sweetly Solemn Thought