Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell (1788-1879)

Name:: Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell (1788-1879)
Title:: Editor, The Ladies' Magazine, 1828-1836
Founder, Seaman's Aid Society, 1833
Editor, Godey's Lady's Book, 1837-1877
"Mother of Thanksgiving"
Born:: 10/24/1788
Birthplace:: Newport, NH
Died:: 04/30/1879
Death Location:: Philadelphia, PA
Residence:: Newport, NH 1788-1828
Boston, MA 1828-1841
Philadelphia, PA 1841-1879
Nationality:: American
Occupation:: Teacher
Author
Social reformer
Magazine editor
Father:: Buell, Gordon (1752-1819)
Mother:: Whittlesey, Martha (1751-1811)
Spouse:: Hale, David (1783-1822) October 23, 1813
Children:: David Emerson, born February 19, 1815; died April 1839
Horatio, born May 3, 1817
Frances Ann, born March 20, 1819
Sarah J., born December 4, 1820; died May 3, 1863
William George, born October 29, 1822; died January 8, 1876
Notes:: Influenced President Lincoln to proclaim Thanksgiving Day in 1863.

Edmund Wheeler, the History of Newport, New Hampshire, From 1766 to 1878, With a Genealogical Register.(Concord, NH: The Republican Press Association, 1878), 125-130, 176, 313, 403-405.

Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelelphia, PA