Olive Sanxay

Olive Sanxay (June 1, 1873 – October 11, 1965), also seen as Olive Sanxey, was an American poet and short story writer.

Olive Sanxay
A young white woman with dark hair center-parted and dressed to the nape, wearing a high-collared shirtwaist with a brooch pinned to the throat
Olive Sanxay, from a 1902 publication
BornJune 1, 1873
Jefferson County, Indiana, U.S.
DiedOctober 11, 1965(1965-10-11) (aged 92)
Madison State Hospital, Madison, Indiana, U.S.
Other namesOlive Sanxey
OccupationWriter

Early life

Sanxay was born in Ravenswood in Jefferson County, Indiana, the tenth and final child of Henry Campbell Sanxay and Sarah (Sally) Parker Stringfellow Sanxay.[1] She began to lose her hearing as a girl.[2] She graduated from Madison High School in 1890.[3][4] In 1895 she was admitted to the Indiana School for the Deaf.

Career

Sanxay taught at the Indiana State School for the Deaf,[5][6] and wrote stories and poems as a young woman.[7] Two of her poems, "Genius" and "Sabbath Chimes", were included in Poets and Poetry of Indiana (1900).[1] "A Summer Girl" appeared in Indiana Writers of Poems and Prose (1902).[8] She wrote poem, "The Dream and the Deed", for a 1907 ceremony at the school,[9] and it was included in the Indiana State School's annual report in 1908.[5] In 1918 one of her poems was included in the poem-a-day collection The Hoosier Year of 366 Indiana Writers and Speakers.[10] Other poems by Sanxay appeared in newspapers,[11] including the Indianapolis Star,[12] the Indianapolis Journal[13][14][15] and The Inter Ocean.[16] She also published at least one story, "Jim's Baby" (1899).[17]

Personal life

Sanxay was institutionalized at the Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later Madison State Hospital) in Madison, Indiana,[18] for many years. She died there in 1965, aged 92 years.

References
  1. Heiney, Enos Boyd (1900). Poets and Poetry of Indiana: A Representative Collection of the Poetry of Indiana During the First Hundred Years of Its History as Territory and State, 1800 to 1900. Silver, Burdett. pp. 134–135, 228–229, 454. ISBN 978-0-7222-0809-0.
  2. Sanxay, Theodore F. (Theodore Frederic) (1907). The Sanxay family, and descendants of Rev. Jacques Sanxay, Huguenot refugee to England in sixteen hundred and eighty-five. The Library of Congress. New York, Printed for private use. p. 113.
  3. "Madison High School Graduates 1862-95". Jefferson County history. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  4. "High School Commencement". Madison Daily Herald. May 28, 1890. p. 4. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  5. Indiana State School for the Deaf (1908). Annual Report of the Trustees and the Superintendent for the Fiscal Year Ending ... to the Governor. The School. pp. 6, 37.
  6. E. A. F (1907). "MISCELLANEOUS". American Annals of the Deaf. 52 (5): 491. ISSN 0002-726X. JSTOR 44464138.
  7. "Local Poets of Madison". Madison Daily Herald. February 2, 1916. p. 4. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  8. Hamilton, Edward Joseph (1902). Indiana Writers of Poems and Prose. Western Press Association.
  9. "Governor Presides at Cornerstone Laying". The Indianapolis News. May 31, 1907. p. 16. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Dunn, Catherine T.; Parmenter, Carey, Angeline (1916). The Hoosier Year of 366 Indiana Writers and Speakers. M. R. Hyman. p. 134.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. Sanxay, Olive (June 10, 1899). "To My Mother". Atlanta Sunny South. p. 26. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  12. Sanxay, Olive (August 20, 1907). "The Strikers". The Indianapolis Star. p. 8. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Sanxay, Olive (March 25, 1900). "The Rhyme". The Indianapolis Journal. p. 13. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. Sanxay, Olive (September 10, 1899). "A Toast". The Indianapolis Journal. p. 16. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. Sanxay, Olive (March 29, 1903). "March Morning". The Indianapolis Journal. p. 32. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. Sanxay, Olive (April 5, 1896). "November Morning". The Inter Ocean. p. 37. Retrieved September 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. Sanxay, Olive, "Jim's Baby" Indianapolis News (October 17, 1899): 10.
  18. "Madison State Hospital - Asylum Projects". www.asylumprojects.org. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  • Olive Sanxay, "Genius" (1900), reprinted in Francis M. Hutt, ed., Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics (Springer Science & Business Media 2010): 113. ISBN 9789048191369
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