Sarah Butler Henry
(1780-1856)
BIRTH
January 4, 1780
PLACE
DEATH
1856
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Patrick Henry
(1736-1799)
MOTHER
Dorothea Dandridge Henry
(1757-1831)
BROTHER
Patrick Henry
(1736-1799)
BROTHER
John Henry
(1750-1798)
SISTER
Dorothea Spotswood Henry
(1778-1854)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
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AWARDS
Sarah Butler Henry Scott (1780–1856), known as Sallie, was a daughter of Patrick Henry and Dorothea Dandridge, born at Leatherwood in Virginia. Her first husband, Robert Campbell, died in 1808. Red Hill’s family history says Alexander Scott rescued her from the Richmond theater fire in 1811; they married in 1813 and had three children. After his death she returned to Seven Islands in Halifax County. Sources disagree on her marriage and exact death dates.
EARLY LIFE
Sarah Butler Henry was born on Jan 4, 1780. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Sarah Butler Henry is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Butler Henry died in 1856. Sarah Butler Henry Scott, known as Sallie, was a daughter of Patrick Henry and Dorothea Dandridge, born at Leatherwood in Virginia. Her first husband, Robert Campbell, died in 1808. Red Hill’s family history says Alexander Scott rescued her from the Richmond theater fire in 1811; they married in 1813 and had three children. After his death she returned to Seven Islands in Halifax County. Sources disagree on her marriage and exact death dates. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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