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Sarah (Marshall) Hayden, "First Authoress of Illinois"
m. Bef 1825 - Sarah (Marshall) Hayden, "First Authoress of Illinois"1825 - 1899
Facts and Events
| Name |
Sarah (Marshall) Hayden, "First Authoress of Illinois" |
| Baptismal Name |
Sarah Marshall |
| Alt Name[4] |
Mary Frazaer |
| Married Name |
Mrs. Sarah M. Hayden |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[3] |
5 Jul 1825 |
Old Shawneetown, Gallatin, Illinois, United States |
| Marriage |
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to Judge John James Hayden |
| Education[3] |
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Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United StatesEdgewood Seminary at the Sewickley School |
| Other? |
1893 |
Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United Statesrecognized at 1893 World's Fair as Illinois' first woman authoress |
| Death[3] |
19 Nov 1899 |
Washington, District of Columbia, United Statesage 74 - |
| Burial[1] |
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Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States |
Research Notes
- age 16 (1841) - wrote first novel Early Engagements
- age 29 (1854) - published Early Engagements: And Florence (a Sequel)
- wrote poetry and prose and worked for magazines and newspapers
- used both her own name and the pen name "Mary Frazaer"
References
- ↑ Sarah Marshall Hayden, in Find A Grave.
[Includes headstone photos.]
[Note: Death date does not match that in the Bio at the Illinois State Library.3]
- Death Notice. Sarah Marshall Hayden, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Washington Post, The. (Washington, D.C.).
21 Nov 1899 - Hayden. In this city on Monday, November 20, 1899 after a long and extremely painful illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude, Mrs. Sarah Marshall Hayden in the seventy-fifth year of her age, beloved wife of Judge John J. Hayden, who will take her remains to Indianapolis, Indiana for burial in Crown Hill Cemetery beside those of their son, Lieutenant Marshall P. Hayden, Adjutant Fifty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, killed in battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi during the War of the Rebellion.
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[Note: Death date does not match that in the Bio at the Illinois State Library.3]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 MRS. JOHN JAMES HAYDEN, in Brief Biographies of the Figurines on Display in the Illinois State Historical Library
p 47.
Mrs. John James Hayden (Sarah Marshall).
Mrs. Sarah Marshall Hayden, youngest of the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall was born in Shawneetown, Illinois July 5, 1825. She was educated at Edgewood Seminary, Sewickley near Pittsburgh. On her mother's side she was a descendant of Hannah More, the English poetess. At the age of sixteen Sarah Marshall wrote a novel which was published thirteen years later and was received with great praise. On April 10, 1843, she was married to John James Hayden at Shawneetown. Mrs. Hayden was the first woman novelist of Illinois. Early Engagements and its sequel Florence were published in 1854. An old-fashioned love story Mr. Langdon's Mistake was published in 1901 by her husband, but it had been written forty years before. For almost sixty years Mrs. Hayden wrote for magazines and newspapers, poetry as well as prose. Mrs. Hayden was a club woman, both literary and philanthropic. She was President of the Eistophas (Lead us to the Light) Club, an organization of women authors from all over the nation, who met at Washington, D.C. during the winter each year. She was a member of the Short Story Club and the Unity, a club of Washington of both men and women writers. On November 19, 1899 Mrs. Hayden died in Washington and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana. She was survived by her husband, one son and two daughters. One son was killed in the Civil War, after which she wrote one of her best poems Going Home.
- ↑ Mary Frazaer was a pen name.
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