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en-wikipedia-org-4476		Rebecca Hammond Lard - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1565	208	77	Rebecca Hammond Lard (Laird) (born Rebecca Hammond; March 7, 1772 – September 28, 1855), is called by some critics "the first poet in Indiana".[1][2][3] Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early people in Indiana[3] and the colonists in Vermont.[4] Rebecca's first collection of 143 pages of poetry, Miscellaneous Poems by a Lady, was first published by David Watson of Woodstock in 1820 as Miscellaneous Poems on Moral and Religious Subjects by a Lady.[13] She dedicated this work to her brother, Jabez Delano Hammond.[11] In these poems, she talks about beauty, death, and feeling by comparing them to phenomena in nature.[3] An old edition of Rebecca's five-page volume of verse is maintained in the collection of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Cincinnati, and an undated clipping of the Cincinnati Gazette identifies the work as that of Mrs. Lard, "a lady of Indiana".[2] Rebecca Laird died on September 28, 1855, and is buried at the Coffee Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Paris Crossing, Indiana.[15] The epitaph on her tombstone reads: "she has done what she could".[10]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4476.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4476.txt