death_date birth_place nationality name birth_date known_for spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
1 november 1908 lancaster , massachusetts american julia abigail carney 6 april 1823 `` little things '' . thomas j. carney julia abigail fletcher carney.jpg julia abigail fletcher carney
 julia abigail fletcher educator
julia abigail fletcher carney

julia abigail fletcher carney , born julia fletcher -lrb- april 6 , 1823 , lancaster , massachusetts -- november 1 , 1908 , galesburg , illinois -rrb- was an american educator and poet .
she wrote the poem `` little things '' .
educated at lancaster academy , julia fletcher achieved fame in 1845 for her poem `` little things '' .
in 1849 she married thomas j. carney , a universalist minister ; four of the couple 's nine children died in infancy .
julia fletcher carney wrote for `` universalist '' and other periodicals ; many of her poems were set to music and published in school text-books or as hymns .
