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1 CONC Maude had just turned 16 when the family arrived in Innisfree, Alber
1 CONC ta on December 20, 1903.  She had hoped to graduate from the college she w
1 CONC as attending in Stillwater, Oklahoma, but agreed to come with her parent
1 CONC s.  She was a remarkable person, a musician, artist, poet and even wro
1 CONC te a novel.  In 1905 at age 17, she taught the first school at Innisfr
1 CONC ee in her siter Annie's small living room with eight pupils.  After marri
1 CONC ng Elmor, she used their house as a "library" when the University at Edmon
1 CONC ton started a lending library service for rural communities and provided t
1 CONC hem with large boxes  of assorted books.  Neighbours came from near and f
1 CONC ar to borrow books from Maude.  She saw that the boxes were frequently exc
1 CONC hanged to ensure new reading was available.  For some years she was the co
1 CONC mmunity news reporter for the Edmonton Bulletin and many of her poems we
1 CONC re first publised in the Bulletin.
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1 CONT When they moved to Kansas City in 1925, her parents had died and were buri
1 CONC ed in Innisfree.  Three families had moved back to the US and one sister a
1 CONC nd her family to Edmonton.  In 1962 Maude wrote a family history called "t
1 CONC he Puckette Family Record" and provided each branch with a copy.  She liv
1 CONC ed to be 92 years of age.