Born in Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Daughter of Benjamin Ayer Sr
and Janet (Hopkins) Ayer
Sister of
Walter Ayer and Benjamin Franklin Ayer Jr
Wife of
Cecil Barnes
— married
21 May 1910 [location unknown]
Died
at age 81
in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Nov 2015
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Burial Brookside Cemetery, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine
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Biography
Margaret (Ayer) Barnes is Notable.
Novelist, Playwright. She attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and took up writing after a car accident she was in broke her back. From 1926 to 1930 she wrote several short stories. In 1931 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Years Of Grace." Her other books include, "Dishonored Lady" (1947) and "Westward Passage" (1934).
Sources
Marriage
"Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7C7-489 : accessed 21 November 2015), Cecil Barnes and Margaret Helen Ayer, 21 May 1910; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, 533866, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,030,477.
See Also
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ayer_Barnes
- Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 23 January 2019), memorial page for Margaret Ayer Barnes (8 Apr 1886–25 Oct 1967), Find A Grave Memorial no. 7066330, citing Brookside Cemetery, Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7066330/margaret-ayer-barnes#source
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