Maude had just turned 16 when the family arrived in Innisfree, Alberta on December 20, 1903.  She had hoped to graduate from the college she was attending in Stillwater, Oklahoma, but agreed to come with her parents.  She was a remarkable person, a musician, artist, poet and even wrote a novel.  In 1905 at age 17, she taught the first school at Innisfree in her siter Annie's small living room with eight pupils.  After marring Elmor, she used their house as a "library" when the University at Edmonton started a lending library service for rural communities and provided them with large boxes  of assorted books.  Neighbours came from near and far to borrow books from Maude.  She saw that the boxes were frequently exchanged to ensure new reading was available.  For some years she was the community news reporter for the Edmonton Bulletin and many of her poems were first publised in the Bulletin.

When they moved to Kansas City in 1925, her parents had died and were buried in Innisfree.  Three families had moved back to the US and one sister and her family to Edmonton.  In 1962 Maude wrote a family history called "the Puckette Family Record" and provided each branch with a copy.  She lived to be 92 years of age.  