Anna Smith Rickey Roberts (December 23, 1827-August 10, 1858) was an American poet. Anna S. Rickey was born in

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, the daughter of surveyor and architect Randal Hutchinson Rickey and his second wife, Susanna McAuley. In 1837, the family moved to

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. In 1851, she married Solomon White Roberts, vice-president of the

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. They had five children. She published her poems in magazines and in 1851 published a collection of them called ''Forest Flowers of the West.'' The frontispiece was an engraving of her portrait by Thomas Buchanan Read.

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