Sarah Wheaton (Turner) Cudworth (1860 - 1943)

Born 28 Sep 1860 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Sarah Wheaton was born in Dighton, Massachusetts, in 1860, the daughter of Charles and Sarah (Wright) Turner.^[1]

She graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School in 1878. She was a teacher in schools in Bridgewater and Dighton, Massachusetts.^[2] She was elected as a teacher in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1893, and assigned to the Prescott School. She resigned the position in 1896.^[3]

By 1899, she had returned to the Bridgewater Normal School as an instructor in the model school, where future teachers would get hands-on experience in classrooms.^[4] She was a resident at the school, as was her sister Hannah, also a teacher there.^[5]

She was 54 years old in 1914, when she married Frederic Bennett Cudworth, a widower and resident of Newport, Rhode Island.^[6] The couple lived in Newport.^[7]

Sarah died in 1943. She is buried at the Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX4J-W2Y : 10 March 2018), Sarah Wheaton Turner, 28 Sep 1860, Dighton, Massachusetts
2. ↑ The Normal Offering, Bridgewater State Normal School, 1904, p. 15
3. ↑ Annual Report of the School Committee of Somerville, Vols. 20-28, pp. 71, 89
4. ↑ The Normal Offering, Bridgewater State Normal School, 1899, p. 13
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9Y4-VXK : accessed 18 April 2020), Sarah W Turner in household of Elizabeth H Perry, Bridgewater Town (all west & south), Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N46T-MX2 : 25 May 2018), Frederic Bennett Cudworth and Sarah Wheaton Turner, 27 Feb 1914
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJVB-TBW : accessed 18 April 2020), Sarah W Cudworth in household of Frederick B Cudworth, Newport Ward 4, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
8. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #156062711 Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH6M-DFK : 15 August 2017), Sarah W Turner in household of Charles W Turner, Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States