b. 1846 Person Name: Mrs. Emma Pitt Author of "The Shining Shore" in Sing Out the Glad News Born: 1846, Maryland.
Pitt was living in Baltimore, Maryland, by 1880, and through at least 1910. She may have died before 1920, as the daughter with whom she was living in 1910 was on her own and still single in 1920.
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Emma Pitt