Margaret Macomber Mix

Female

April 14, 1805

August 3, 1880

New Haven, CT

John William Wood (September 5, 1825)

Margaret Mix Wood, daughter of Elihu and Nancy Atwater Mix, was born April 14, 1805 in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1818, 1819, and 1820 Margaret was educated in Litchfield, Connecticut at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy. On September 5, 1825 she was wed to Dr. John William Wood of Stamford, Connecticut. The couple had five children during their marriage. Margaret passed away August 3, 1880.

“M. Mix’s farewell was written by request and copied by her. She had been some time with us and boarded at my father’s with me nad Lucy. She was from New Haven. An amiable and excellent girl. I believe her mother removed to the West – I have never heard what became of her.

Margaret M Mixs farewell to
Litchfield Oct. 1820
Litchfield farewell! No more thy street
In broad expanse my eyes shall meet
No more thy hills of cheerful green
Or neat built houses shall be seen
Or sky of ever living blue
Or lakes that vie with it in hue.
No more be seen those friends that twine
Their merits round this heart of mine.
Farewell that friend that nearest seen
Who shares both waking hours and dreams
Whose unsophisticated ...mind
With strongest powers the heart can bind.
Maria too in whom we find
That innate dignity of mind
That mark her form with all that grace
That worth and innocence can trace.
And Cooke whose emblem is the stream
Whose surface shows no brightening gleam
But still whose …. [torn page]
Calmly and sweetly far below –
Mary with feeling quick and bright
As flashes of the Northern Light:
Whose artless innocence endears.
More than the worth of riper years,
And Jane whose prompt and active mind
By talents vigerous shoots entwined.
Shows promise of the fairest flowers
And richest fruits in future hours.
And Wolcott o’er whose beaming face
Good nature sheds her sweetest grace.
Whose smile is like the glowing west.
When every cloud has sought its rest.
When balmy eve its softening blue
Has Mix’d with tints of amber hue
Where none can look and calm depart
Nor feel the flow upon his heart –
Friends of my heart tho’ doubly near
Yet other friends are still as dear
And those now claiming warmer love
Which you and Litchfield ne’er can move.”

John Pierce Brace, History of My Poetry, Vol. II (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927)

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1818-1820

"Catalogue of the Ladies Academy in Litchfield" 1818 by J.A. Shepard (Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield Female Academy Collection).

1819 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).

1819 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).

1820 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).

John Pierce Brace, History of My Poetry, Vol. II (Vanderpoel, ...Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).
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