Mabel Martin Wyrick

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1913 – 2003

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Who was Mabel Martin Wyrick?

Mabel Martin Wyrick was an American writer. Her published books include If Quilts Could Talk... I'd Listen, Tales of the Rails, How to Bury a Drifter, The Ultimate Irony, Factual Folklore, and Land Beneath the Lake.

Wyrick wrote weekly newspaper columns for several years called "If Quilts Could Talk ... I'd Listen" and "Land Beneath the Lake". Her columns were regularly featured in several periodicals, including the Corbin Times Tribune, the Sentinel-Echo, the Berea Citizen, Appalachian Heritage, and Back Home in Kentucky. She also published six books, three of which told the stories of early life in the hills of Southeastern Kentucky. She also published two books of fiction which were set in the Laurel County, Kentucky area, and one book of railroad tales as told to her by her second husband, Wilson L. Wyrick.

She married Lohren F. Martin, Sr. on 23 November 1929, and moved to his family’s farm on Muddy Gut Creek in Laurel County. They had five children, one of whom died as a toddler. During this time, Wyrick primarily ran the household and farmed. However, she also worked outside the home during the auctions at the Dean-Planters Tobacco Warehouse in London, Kentucky. After her husband’s death in 1976, Wyrick moved to Corbin, Kentucky, where she quickly became involved in the community. She was instrumental in beginning a library for the Senior Citizen’s Center by gathering books herself and soliciting donations for books from many of the Corbin merchants and residents. She also volunteered in the Adult Literacy project and taught several people to read because she found so much enjoyment in reading herself.

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Born
Mar 9, 1913
Died
Oct 12, 2003

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on July 23, 2013

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