Newcomb, Mary, 1895-1949?

Mary Newcomb was born in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1895. As an adult, Newcomb collected folk songs, and in the late 1920s and early 1930s, she attempted to publish a collection of them, Songs My Mother Sang. Her manuscript appears to never have been published, and a copy of it is available at The Filson as the Mary Newcomb Miscellaneous Papers. Newcomb held several positions in the United States Civil Service, and in the early 1930s attended Nazareth College and St. Helena's Commercial College. It is believed that she died in 1949.