Mary Augusta Young
American, 1892 - 1979
Mrs. Starr moved to West Hartford in 1962 at age 70. Mrs. Starr died in December 1979 at age 86; her daughter Hope believes she died at Farmington Convalescent Home, rather than at Hartford Hospital.
Augusta Young Starr did not have any formal art training. She began doing crewel embroidery when she moved to West Hartford, at age 70 in 1962. She learned from Marcia Davenport of Wethersfield. A fragment of an envelope preserved in a photo album owned by Hope lists the projects she completed between September 1962 and March 1970, as well as a number of projects completed between 1970 and her death in 1979 (this list was photocopied for file 2005.178.1-.4).
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American, 1875 - 1974