Real name: Lily De Lorme

“Grandma” Lily De Lorme, of Hardscrabble on the Saranac, NY, learned songs from parents and her grandfather, Gideon Baker, who fought in the War of 1812. DeLorme was one of the best informants of Flanders and Olney (also Porter who recorded 100 of her songs). Most of her ballads date back into the 1800s since she was born in 1869 in Schuyler Falls, New York and learned them from her family. Mrs. Lily DeLorme's offficial residence was Cadyville, New York. Her father was born in Starksboro, Vermont; her mother, in Schuyler Falls, New York.