Identifier: womenofdistincti00scru (find matches)
Title: Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Scruggs, L. A. (Lawson Andrew), 1857-1914
Subjects: North Caroliniana African American women African Americans Women
Publisher: Raleigh : L. A. Scruggs
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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als with which to try her hand, say-ing-, Go home and make th^it; if there is anything inyou it wnll come out. She tried once and had to tryagain, but after all succeeded admirably. Encouragedby this victory, she pushed her way on and on until shehas been recognized and honored throughout a large partof the civilized world by those who admire the beautiesof the work of an artful hand. Some of her works are Hagar in the Wilderness, Madonna with the InfantChrist and Two Adoring Angels, Forever Free,Hiawathas Wooings, lyongfellow, the Poet,John Brown, Wendell Phillips. These, with herhonored reception in Rome and the attractions whichher studio had for the travelers from all parts of theworld, all speak in no uncertain tones of her real meritsas an artist and sculptress. WOMEN OF DJt^TlNCTJON. 71 CHAPTER XIV. MRS. SARAH J. W. EARLY. Sarah J., the fifth daughter of Thomas and JemimaWoodson, was born near the city of Chillicothe, Ohio,November 15, 1825. Early in life she exhibited remarka-
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MRS. SAKAII J. W. EARLY ble intelligence for a child and a peculiar aptness tolearn whatever came within her observation. Herparents were not only devoted Christians, btit zealous 11 WOMEN OF DISTINCTION. members of tlie x\. M. E. Church. Their house wasalways a houie for uiiuisters aud a sauctuary for devoutChristiaus. Thus she was early brought under the bestmoral and religious influences while her heart was suscep-tible to the unction of the divine spirit. ThomasWoodson, being an intelligent man, had an intense desirethat his children should be well educated, and as coloredchildren were not admitted into the public schools he,with others, made peculiar efforts to supply them withthe best instructors in tiie sciences. These theyobtained from Oneida College, in New York, and Oberlin,Ohio. They were abolitionists and UiOstly of the bestfamilies, who brouglit with them their piety, their intel-ligence and their culture, and diffused them in the commu-nities in which they labored. These

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