Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney Biography

Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney (pen names, Julia, Minnie May, Frank Fisher, Sadie Sensible, Minister's Wife, Rev. Peter Benson's Daughter; April 6, 1823 – November 1, 1908) was an American educator and poet. Remembered for her poem "Little Things", many of her poems were set to music and published in school text-books, and used in the hymn-books of churches for more than half a century. In 1849, she married Thomas J. Carney, a Universalist minister. She died November 1, 1908, in Galesburg, Illinois.