 The father, wishing to try farm life, purchased a farm in the township of North Royalton, Ohio near Cleveland, being induced to settle there by an older brother, who had left England ten years before.At the age of twenty-two, Scarr married a young Englishman residing in Twinsburg, Ohio, and, shortly afterwards, began to contribute occasionally to some of the periodicals of the day under various pen names.At a later period, verses appeared under her own name.