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Sarah Harvey Palmer was born October 7, 1841 in Exeter, Rhode Island. She was the tenth child of Asher and Joanna Eames Palmer, and the younger sister of my third great-grandmother, Hannah Palmer Larkham.
Sarah was nineteen years old at the start of the Civil War in April
1861. She lost her
older brother, William, and her younger
brother, Horace, in August 1863 as a result
of wounds they received during the war.
Sarah never married -- perhaps due to the lack of young men
of marriageable age during the war years, or perhaps a suitor was lost
in action. Sarah's poetry is surely her greatest legacy. I have many of her hand-written pages that I am still in the process of transcribing. Many of her poems were published in local newspapers. In addition to providing a glimpse at life in rural Connecticut in the 1800s, her poetry reflects the celebrations and hardships of the Palmer and Larkham families. |
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 Sarah Harvey Palmer in her middle and later life |
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Poetry of Sarah Harvey Palmer |
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