Sarah Embra Scott Carrington
Birth: Jan 1800
Halifax County, Virginia, USA
Death: 12 Aug 1872 (aged 72)
Augusta County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Thornrose Cemetery
Staunton, Staunton City, Virginia, USA
Sarah was born at "Falkland" Plantation, Halifax County, (Today part of Falkland Farms) the home of her parents, Capt. Charles Scott (Brother of Gen. John Baytop Scott) and Priscilla Read. Mary E. Scott, her sister, was married to Nathaniel E. Venable, the father of her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth G. Venable. Sarah was a noted beauty and belle in her youth. Her children, "Mildendo" and its magnificent gardens became her passion after the early death of her husband in 1829. As was the custom of the time, she both visited and hosted many of her relations from the nearby plantations of "Berry Hill", "Long Branch", "Ridgeway" & "Sylvan Hill". For a brief time in the 1840s she and her daughter, Catherine, offered sustenance & sanctuary to her very ill sister-in-law, Alice Cabell Carrington, and her family during their travail after the loss of nearby "Long Branch" by Walter Coles Carrington. Alice subsequently passed away and is buried somewhere in the family cemetery.
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