resting_place death_date death_place children birth_place notableworks name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
coffee creek baptist church cemetery 28 september 1855 paris crossing , indiana julia nelson lard charles lard -lrb- lard -rrb- hammond samuel adams lard horatio new bedford , massachusetts '' , '' on the banks of the ohio '' miscellaneous poems on moral and religious subjects '' rebecca hammond lard 07 march 1772 samuel lard -lrb- m. 1801-1828 ; divorced -rrb- rebecca hammond lard.jpg rebecca hammond lard
 rebecca hammond school teacher , poet
rebecca hammond lard

rebecca hammond lard -lrb- born rebecca hammond ; march 7 , 1772 -- september 28 , 1855 -rrb- , is called by some critics `` the first poet in indiana '' .
her poetry reflects on the lives of the early people in indiana and the colonists in vermont .
lard 's works are mainly religious and meditative in tone , but draw their inspiration in part from the bucolics and georgics of virgil .
she is best known for indiana 's first book of poetry , `` on the banks of the ohio '' , a poem she is believed to have written .
