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Sarah Almy (Peckham) Chandler (1844 - 1948)

Sarah Almy Chandler formerly Peckham
Born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 5 Jan 1865 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United Statesmap
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Died at age 103 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United Statesmap
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Biography

Sarah was born in 1844. She passed away in 1948.

Sarah published a book of her poems in 1923, titled "Homey Poems." One of these, "To Lullaby-Town," is dated 1897, and was written for her granddaughter Virginia Chandler.

She lived with her son after the death of her husband in 1910, remaining after he remarried in 1922 for the rest of her life.

In May, 1947, she took the leading role in a play she wrote, performed in Providence by the Basement Studio Players.

In October, 1947, she visited a mother and new-born son at the Providence Lying-In Hospital, as the oldest known native-born resident of Providence.

Sources

  • Marriage Certificate bound into a family Bible: "Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated out of the Original Tongues, with the Apocrypha" (1876), donated to the Winchester (MA) Public Library.




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