Married Franklin Smith Blair May 13, 1872.
She was a teacher. When new buildings were added at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, in 1907 one of the memorial rooms in New Garden Hall was named for her.
DEATHS.
BLAIR—Seventh month 18, 1880, of heart disease, Sallie Hoskins Blair, wife of Franklin S. Blair, and only daughter of Joseph and Mary Hoskins, the former deceased, aged 35 years.
The deceased experienced a change of heart when twelve or thirteen years of age, and subsequently joined the M. E. Church South. As a child she was unusually intelligent. She completed the collegiate course in a Methodist female college of her native state, then was a student at Earlham one term, and afterward three years at Vassar College, New York, where she obtained A. B. in the first half of a class of thirty-three members in 1870. She then devoted her time to teaching, and on her marriage solicited her husband to aid her in establishing a school for the intellectual, moral, and religious improvement of her native place, Summerfield, North Carolina, which resulted in the opening of a high school at that place in 1873. Since then she has been the faithful, efficient fellow-teacher with her husband, more or less of the time in each of the fifteen scholastic terms that have passed. To womanly grace and intellectual culture, she, by the grace of God, added to her faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, godliness, etc., so that she was "neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." From clear, conscientious conviction, she withdrew from the Methodist connexion in 1867, and joined the Society of Friends, since which she has been a member of New Garden Monthly Meeting, North Carolina, and for two years an elder.
She was slightly indisposed for some weeks before her death, but was not thought sufficiently so to call her physician till two days before, and then not thought dangerous till within ten hours of the close. During this time, she seemed conscious that death was upon her. She prayed that she might bear her very excruciating pain with Christian patience and resignation, and only desired to live for her children and to aid her husband in doing good in the world....A mother and three brothers, a husband and three little children are left to mourn the loss of her whom they loved so well, besides many other relatives and numerous friends.
—Christian Worker (New Vienna, Ohio), August 5, 1880, p. 383.
She was a teacher. When new buildings were added at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, in 1907 one of the memorial rooms in New Garden Hall was named for her.
DEATHS.
BLAIR—Seventh month 18, 1880, of heart disease, Sallie Hoskins Blair, wife of Franklin S. Blair, and only daughter of Joseph and Mary Hoskins, the former deceased, aged 35 years.
The deceased experienced a change of heart when twelve or thirteen years of age, and subsequently joined the M. E. Church South. As a child she was unusually intelligent. She completed the collegiate course in a Methodist female college of her native state, then was a student at Earlham one term, and afterward three years at Vassar College, New York, where she obtained A. B. in the first half of a class of thirty-three members in 1870. She then devoted her time to teaching, and on her marriage solicited her husband to aid her in establishing a school for the intellectual, moral, and religious improvement of her native place, Summerfield, North Carolina, which resulted in the opening of a high school at that place in 1873. Since then she has been the faithful, efficient fellow-teacher with her husband, more or less of the time in each of the fifteen scholastic terms that have passed. To womanly grace and intellectual culture, she, by the grace of God, added to her faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, godliness, etc., so that she was "neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." From clear, conscientious conviction, she withdrew from the Methodist connexion in 1867, and joined the Society of Friends, since which she has been a member of New Garden Monthly Meeting, North Carolina, and for two years an elder.
She was slightly indisposed for some weeks before her death, but was not thought sufficiently so to call her physician till two days before, and then not thought dangerous till within ten hours of the close. During this time, she seemed conscious that death was upon her. She prayed that she might bear her very excruciating pain with Christian patience and resignation, and only desired to live for her children and to aid her husband in doing good in the world....A mother and three brothers, a husband and three little children are left to mourn the loss of her whom they loved so well, besides many other relatives and numerous friends.
—Christian Worker (New Vienna, Ohio), August 5, 1880, p. 383.
Married Franklin Smith Blair May 13, 1872.
She was a teacher. When new buildings were added at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, in 1907 one of the memorial rooms in New Garden Hall was named for her.
DEATHS.
BLAIR—Seventh month 18, 1880, of heart disease, Sallie Hoskins Blair, wife of Franklin S. Blair, and only daughter of Joseph and Mary Hoskins, the former deceased, aged 35 years.
The deceased experienced a change of heart when twelve or thirteen years of age, and subsequently joined the M. E. Church South. As a child she was unusually intelligent. She completed the collegiate course in a Methodist female college of her native state, then was a student at Earlham one term, and afterward three years at Vassar College, New York, where she obtained A. B. in the first half of a class of thirty-three members in 1870. She then devoted her time to teaching, and on her marriage solicited her husband to aid her in establishing a school for the intellectual, moral, and religious improvement of her native place, Summerfield, North Carolina, which resulted in the opening of a high school at that place in 1873. Since then she has been the faithful, efficient fellow-teacher with her husband, more or less of the time in each of the fifteen scholastic terms that have passed. To womanly grace and intellectual culture, she, by the grace of God, added to her faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, godliness, etc., so that she was "neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." From clear, conscientious conviction, she withdrew from the Methodist connexion in 1867, and joined the Society of Friends, since which she has been a member of New Garden Monthly Meeting, North Carolina, and for two years an elder.
She was slightly indisposed for some weeks before her death, but was not thought sufficiently so to call her physician till two days before, and then not thought dangerous till within ten hours of the close. During this time, she seemed conscious that death was upon her. She prayed that she might bear her very excruciating pain with Christian patience and resignation, and only desired to live for her children and to aid her husband in doing good in the world....A mother and three brothers, a husband and three little children are left to mourn the loss of her whom they loved so well, besides many other relatives and numerous friends.
—Christian Worker (New Vienna, Ohio), August 5, 1880, p. 383.
She was a teacher. When new buildings were added at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, in 1907 one of the memorial rooms in New Garden Hall was named for her.
DEATHS.
BLAIR—Seventh month 18, 1880, of heart disease, Sallie Hoskins Blair, wife of Franklin S. Blair, and only daughter of Joseph and Mary Hoskins, the former deceased, aged 35 years.
The deceased experienced a change of heart when twelve or thirteen years of age, and subsequently joined the M. E. Church South. As a child she was unusually intelligent. She completed the collegiate course in a Methodist female college of her native state, then was a student at Earlham one term, and afterward three years at Vassar College, New York, where she obtained A. B. in the first half of a class of thirty-three members in 1870. She then devoted her time to teaching, and on her marriage solicited her husband to aid her in establishing a school for the intellectual, moral, and religious improvement of her native place, Summerfield, North Carolina, which resulted in the opening of a high school at that place in 1873. Since then she has been the faithful, efficient fellow-teacher with her husband, more or less of the time in each of the fifteen scholastic terms that have passed. To womanly grace and intellectual culture, she, by the grace of God, added to her faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, godliness, etc., so that she was "neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." From clear, conscientious conviction, she withdrew from the Methodist connexion in 1867, and joined the Society of Friends, since which she has been a member of New Garden Monthly Meeting, North Carolina, and for two years an elder.
She was slightly indisposed for some weeks before her death, but was not thought sufficiently so to call her physician till two days before, and then not thought dangerous till within ten hours of the close. During this time, she seemed conscious that death was upon her. She prayed that she might bear her very excruciating pain with Christian patience and resignation, and only desired to live for her children and to aid her husband in doing good in the world....A mother and three brothers, a husband and three little children are left to mourn the loss of her whom they loved so well, besides many other relatives and numerous friends.
—Christian Worker (New Vienna, Ohio), August 5, 1880, p. 383.
Gravesite Details
Aged 35 years, 1 month, 19 days old. Wife of Franklin S. Blair.
Family Members
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