Gene Stratton-Porter
1863 -1924
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A Guide to Gene Stratton-Porter Sites
Gene Stratton-Porter, age 10
From Indiana State Museum and
Historic Sites Division, Department of Natural Resources

SOURCE: http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/WWW/ihb/tiharch-sep96.html
Gene (born Geneva) Stratton-Porter is one of Indiana's most famous female authors. Her life and intellect are fascinating. She was a prime example of an independent woman, an accomplished naturalist, a perfectionist extraordinaire and a born story-teller. Born near Wabash, Indiana in 1863, she lived until 1924. A streetcar accident claimed her life in Los Angeles at the height of her movie production career.

Source: http://our.tentativetimes.net/porter/limber2a.html

WRITER LAID TO REST AT HISTORICAL SITE ROME CITY, Ind. Seventy-five years after her death in California, Hoosier writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter has finally been laid to rest under the boughs of her favorite oak tree.

Stratton-Porter's remains were interred over the weekend at the state historic site that bears her name.

Born on a farm in Wabash County, Stratton-Porter had written that she wished to be laid to rest under a large oak tree near the Noble County home where she studied plants and animals and wrote 12 novels.

Eight of the novels, the best-known of which is "Girl of the Limberlost" [sic], were made into films. They were based on her explorations of northern Indiana's once-vast wetlands, areas where she roamed in hip boots and photographed the plants and animals that lived there.

The branches of the large oak tree she yearned to buried under now shade a marble tomb. A statue of a sitting woman holding a wreath rests on the tomb. A nearby orchard contains various kinds of plants, flowers, and trees Stratton-Porter cultivated on the one-150-acre property.

(From the Assciated Press)

Source: http://www.asle.umn.edu/archive/readings/porter.txt