Sarah Sherman Hoar
(1783-1866)
BIRTH
January 11, 1783
PLACE
NAME
Sarah Sherman
DEATH
August 29, 1866
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Rebecca Minot Prescott
(1743-1813)
SISTER
Martha Day
(1779–1806)
CHILDREN
Roger Sherman
(1721-1793)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
UNITARIAN (DOCUMENTED WORSHIP)
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sarah Sherman Hoar (1783–1866), daughter of Roger Sherman, married Samuel Hoar in 1812 and lived in Concord, Massachusetts. Her son George recalled her help for poor neighbors and a school she helped establish for Black children in New Haven. She led daily Bible reading in a household that worshiped at First Parish. Concord’s library preserves her letters and receipts for lessons, cloth and wartime tax. Later summaries give conflicting lifespan and marriage dates.
EARLY LIFE
Sarah Sherman Hoar was born on Jan 11, 1783. 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 Sherman Hoar 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. Sarah Sherman Hoar died on Aug 29, 1866. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sarah Sherman Hoar died on Aug 29, 1866. Sarah Sherman Hoar, daughter of Roger Sherman, married Samuel Hoar in 1812 and lived in Concord, Massachusetts. Her son George recalled her help for poor neighbors and a school she helped establish for Black children in New Haven. She led daily Bible reading in a household that worshiped at First Parish. Concord’s library preserves her letters and receipts for lessons, cloth and wartime tax. Later summaries give conflicting lifespan and marriage dates. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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