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Short Name: Sarah J. C. Whittlesey
Full Name: Whittlesey, Sarah J. C. (Sarah Johnson Cogswell), 1825-1896
Birth Year: 1825
Death Year: 1896

Sarah was born at Williamston, NC. She graduated from Laville Semitnary in Halifax Co., NC in 1841 and moved to Alexandria Virginia in 1848. She was a novelist and a poet. Her most noted work is Bertha, the Beauty, a Story of the southern REvolution, 1872, whichi s reportedly an autobiographical novel. She died in Alexandria, 16 Feb, 1896.

Dianne Shapiro, from "Genealogy of the Whittelsey-Whittlesey family" by Charles Barney Whittelsey, Hartford, Conn., 1898


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