This website will introduce you to the poetry of a woman who grew up in the late 1880s and early 1900s. She was a daughter, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, friend, and pioneer.
Sarah, familiarly known as “Sade” or “Sadie”, was born July 6, 1882 in Polk County, Minnesota, to John Morrison and Ann Jane Robinson Morrison. The Morrisons moved to Baudette via Winnipeg in 1904.
In Rainy River, Ontario, on August 3, 1904, Sade married William Bain of Mallory, Minnesota. She taught at the Baudette School in 1904 and 1905, and the couple later moved to a homestead on the Rapid River, in what was then the northern end of Beltrami County.
In 1908 a daughter, Evelyn, was born.
The ensuing years were spent carving a home out of the wilderness and teaching at a small school just across the road from their house. Sarah was the only teacher her daughter knew during her elementary school years.
Over the years, Sarah enjoyed writing a bit of poetry addressing a wide variety of subjects. The poems you will find here are those collected by her daughter.