SARAH M. SPENCER.
Taught First School for Both Colored and White Pupils in Florida.
Died July 21, 1902 at Hope Hospital, Rochester, N. Y., Sarah M., widow of C. H. Spencer, and elder daughter of the late William T. and Sarah Chapman Mather.
She could boast of a true aristocracy, as both branches of her ancestral tree can be traced back to the early history of this country:
"A gallant Christian race,
Patterns of every virtue, every grace."
The deceased was born in Boston, O., December 29, 1836, but at a very early age went with her parents to Akron. At the age of 10 years she came to Rochester, where the greater portion of her life was spent, and educational privileges enjoyed at Miss Doolittle's seminary, on South Fitzhugh street, and Miss Mary B. Allen's school for young ladies, back in the fifties. Her particular forte was mathematics.
The family moved to Chicago, Ill., where she met and married October 12, 1857, C. H. Spencer, a lawyer of more than ordinary talent. He buying land in Port Orange, Fla., the deceased made her residence there for a short time, and in the early seventies engaged in teaching the colored people in that section. The public statistics hear record to the fact of its being the first school in which the black population enjoyed equal privilege with the white of said state.
Returning to Rochester, she settled down to a quiet life of domestic happiness with her two daughters, Mary and Julia Spencer, both well known as teachers in the public schools of Rochester. But
"As the winged arrow flies
Speedily the mark to find.
As the lightning from the skies—"
came death in its most awful form and took the loving and sympathetic mother away, leaving two hearts crushed by their terrible bereavement; denied, as they were, the mournful privilege of following their best early friend to her last resting place.
Their heart questionings of why this should be can only be answered by the belief that
"God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain."
L. E. E.
Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, 29 Aug 1902, Page 10
Taught First School for Both Colored and White Pupils in Florida.
Died July 21, 1902 at Hope Hospital, Rochester, N. Y., Sarah M., widow of C. H. Spencer, and elder daughter of the late William T. and Sarah Chapman Mather.
She could boast of a true aristocracy, as both branches of her ancestral tree can be traced back to the early history of this country:
"A gallant Christian race,
Patterns of every virtue, every grace."
The deceased was born in Boston, O., December 29, 1836, but at a very early age went with her parents to Akron. At the age of 10 years she came to Rochester, where the greater portion of her life was spent, and educational privileges enjoyed at Miss Doolittle's seminary, on South Fitzhugh street, and Miss Mary B. Allen's school for young ladies, back in the fifties. Her particular forte was mathematics.
The family moved to Chicago, Ill., where she met and married October 12, 1857, C. H. Spencer, a lawyer of more than ordinary talent. He buying land in Port Orange, Fla., the deceased made her residence there for a short time, and in the early seventies engaged in teaching the colored people in that section. The public statistics hear record to the fact of its being the first school in which the black population enjoyed equal privilege with the white of said state.
Returning to Rochester, she settled down to a quiet life of domestic happiness with her two daughters, Mary and Julia Spencer, both well known as teachers in the public schools of Rochester. But
"As the winged arrow flies
Speedily the mark to find.
As the lightning from the skies—"
came death in its most awful form and took the loving and sympathetic mother away, leaving two hearts crushed by their terrible bereavement; denied, as they were, the mournful privilege of following their best early friend to her last resting place.
Their heart questionings of why this should be can only be answered by the belief that
"God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain."
L. E. E.
Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, 29 Aug 1902, Page 10
SARAH M. SPENCER.
Taught First School for Both Colored and White Pupils in Florida.
Died July 21, 1902 at Hope Hospital, Rochester, N. Y., Sarah M., widow of C. H. Spencer, and elder daughter of the late William T. and Sarah Chapman Mather.
She could boast of a true aristocracy, as both branches of her ancestral tree can be traced back to the early history of this country:
"A gallant Christian race,
Patterns of every virtue, every grace."
The deceased was born in Boston, O., December 29, 1836, but at a very early age went with her parents to Akron. At the age of 10 years she came to Rochester, where the greater portion of her life was spent, and educational privileges enjoyed at Miss Doolittle's seminary, on South Fitzhugh street, and Miss Mary B. Allen's school for young ladies, back in the fifties. Her particular forte was mathematics.
The family moved to Chicago, Ill., where she met and married October 12, 1857, C. H. Spencer, a lawyer of more than ordinary talent. He buying land in Port Orange, Fla., the deceased made her residence there for a short time, and in the early seventies engaged in teaching the colored people in that section. The public statistics hear record to the fact of its being the first school in which the black population enjoyed equal privilege with the white of said state.
Returning to Rochester, she settled down to a quiet life of domestic happiness with her two daughters, Mary and Julia Spencer, both well known as teachers in the public schools of Rochester. But
"As the winged arrow flies
Speedily the mark to find.
As the lightning from the skies—"
came death in its most awful form and took the loving and sympathetic mother away, leaving two hearts crushed by their terrible bereavement; denied, as they were, the mournful privilege of following their best early friend to her last resting place.
Their heart questionings of why this should be can only be answered by the belief that
"God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain."
L. E. E.
Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, 29 Aug 1902, Page 10
Taught First School for Both Colored and White Pupils in Florida.
Died July 21, 1902 at Hope Hospital, Rochester, N. Y., Sarah M., widow of C. H. Spencer, and elder daughter of the late William T. and Sarah Chapman Mather.
She could boast of a true aristocracy, as both branches of her ancestral tree can be traced back to the early history of this country:
"A gallant Christian race,
Patterns of every virtue, every grace."
The deceased was born in Boston, O., December 29, 1836, but at a very early age went with her parents to Akron. At the age of 10 years she came to Rochester, where the greater portion of her life was spent, and educational privileges enjoyed at Miss Doolittle's seminary, on South Fitzhugh street, and Miss Mary B. Allen's school for young ladies, back in the fifties. Her particular forte was mathematics.
The family moved to Chicago, Ill., where she met and married October 12, 1857, C. H. Spencer, a lawyer of more than ordinary talent. He buying land in Port Orange, Fla., the deceased made her residence there for a short time, and in the early seventies engaged in teaching the colored people in that section. The public statistics hear record to the fact of its being the first school in which the black population enjoyed equal privilege with the white of said state.
Returning to Rochester, she settled down to a quiet life of domestic happiness with her two daughters, Mary and Julia Spencer, both well known as teachers in the public schools of Rochester. But
"As the winged arrow flies
Speedily the mark to find.
As the lightning from the skies—"
came death in its most awful form and took the loving and sympathetic mother away, leaving two hearts crushed by their terrible bereavement; denied, as they were, the mournful privilege of following their best early friend to her last resting place.
Their heart questionings of why this should be can only be answered by the belief that
"God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain."
L. E. E.
Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, 29 Aug 1902, Page 10
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