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Sarah Byrd Pritchett

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Sarah Byrd Pritchett

Birth
Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, USA
Death
26 Feb 1951 (aged 82)
Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section W, Lot 022 E, Grave 2
Memorial ID
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Sarah never married and she worked at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. since 1901, starting out as an Assistant in the Catalogue Division.
Sarah was the youngest child of seven, born to Carr Waller Pritchett and Elizabeth Susan Smith in Howard County, Missouri.
She was a student in the Junior Class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1888, attended Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri from 1890 - 1891 and then attended New York State Library School from 1900 - 1901.
On the 1940 Census, dated 12 April 1940, she was listed as an Inmate, living at the Sheppard Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Baltimore, Maryland.

OBITUARY:
PRITCHETT, SARAH BYRD On Monday, February 26, 1951, After a brief illness near Towson, MD., SARAH BYRD PRITCHETT. Services will be held at St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Mass. and Wis. aves. n.w., on Wednesday, February 28, at 2:30 p.m. Interment Rock Creek Cemetery.

Source: Date: Monday, February 26, 1951 Paper: Evening Star (Washington (DC), DC) Page: 12
Added by W. Warder of Find A Grave
Sarah never married and she worked at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. since 1901, starting out as an Assistant in the Catalogue Division.
Sarah was the youngest child of seven, born to Carr Waller Pritchett and Elizabeth Susan Smith in Howard County, Missouri.
She was a student in the Junior Class at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1888, attended Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri from 1890 - 1891 and then attended New York State Library School from 1900 - 1901.
On the 1940 Census, dated 12 April 1940, she was listed as an Inmate, living at the Sheppard Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Baltimore, Maryland.

OBITUARY:
PRITCHETT, SARAH BYRD On Monday, February 26, 1951, After a brief illness near Towson, MD., SARAH BYRD PRITCHETT. Services will be held at St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Mass. and Wis. aves. n.w., on Wednesday, February 28, at 2:30 p.m. Interment Rock Creek Cemetery.

Source: Date: Monday, February 26, 1951 Paper: Evening Star (Washington (DC), DC) Page: 12
Added by W. Warder of Find A Grave

Gravesite Details

Buried on February 28, 1951



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