Margaret George Davidson was the talented daughter of Benjamin Y. and Adeline (Gilman) George of Elmwood, IL She was Edgar Lee Master's first love and as such is the inspiration for five poems in his "Spoon River Anthology," but she is not to be identified with any particular portrait, all of which are fiction. Six years after their breakup she married William T. Davidson, the political enemy of Masters' father Hardin Masters. Davidson is the object of much malice in the Spoon River poems.
Because Masters' poems are highly fictionalized, the visitor to this site should read these two stanzas from a poem written by Margaret herself in 1893 and re-published after her death. The title, "Moritura," means "[She Who Is] About to Die.