Sarah Jerusha Cornwall (123)
Sarah Jerusha Cornwall, born in Southport, Connecticut, 2 October 1837, is the daughter of Susan Peyton Bedinger and Rev. Doctor Nathaniel Ellsworth Cornwall and the granddaughter of Daniel Bedinger and Rachel Rutherford of "Bedford", Shepherdstown, Virginia, now West Virginia. She published a collection of the writings of her sister, Anna Bedinger Cornwall. Sarah Jerusha was also a poet and published some of her poems in as an appendix in her sister's book and published many of her own poems in the book entitled, "Roses and Myrtles"[i], [2]
We have no portrait of Sarah Jerusha here to show. She answers our lament by the concluding poem of "Roses and Myrtle",
To Some Friends Who Requested My Likeness
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A wish expressed by loved ones to deny,
Must ever grieve the heat and wake a sigh; Beloved friends, my likeness you require, And I have sought to give what you desire; I pray you, take instead thereof my heart, The Sun himself has not the magic art My picture image on the card to paint; The work to do he lately made a feint, And where my features should have found a place, He showed, in truth, engraved a form and face, Rigid, expressionless, with soulless gaze; Clearly each line the shabby trick displays. Since vainly thus so please you I essay, here will I give you, in another way, In words, wherein are mirrored mind and thought, The token of affection which you sought. Sarah jerusha Cornwall |
Sources and notes:
[i] Cornwall, Sarah Jerusha, 1881, Roses and Myrtles, D. Appleton and Company, 1,3, and 5 Bond, Street, New York, 203 p.
[2] The sisters, Sarah Jerusha Cornwall and Anna Bedinger Cornwall were born and raised in the Fairfield, Connecticut area. The sisters were living in New York with their parents in 1870. After the death of their mother in 1871 and father in 1881, they lived with heir brother, the Rev.Nathaniel Cornwall in New York City in 1880. In 1900 they were living alone together in New York city. We have not the year of death date nor places of interment of Sarah Jerusha Cornwall or her sister, Anna Bedinger Cornwall.
[i] Cornwall, Sarah Jerusha, 1881, Roses and Myrtles, D. Appleton and Company, 1,3, and 5 Bond, Street, New York, 203 p.
[2] The sisters, Sarah Jerusha Cornwall and Anna Bedinger Cornwall were born and raised in the Fairfield, Connecticut area. The sisters were living in New York with their parents in 1870. After the death of their mother in 1871 and father in 1881, they lived with heir brother, the Rev.Nathaniel Cornwall in New York City in 1880. In 1900 they were living alone together in New York city. We have not the year of death date nor places of interment of Sarah Jerusha Cornwall or her sister, Anna Bedinger Cornwall.