Sarah dudley pettey biography of william

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Sarah Dudley Pettey

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Biography of Sarah Dudley Pettey, 1869-1906

By Professor Eileen V. Wallis, Cal Poly Pomona (evwallis@)

 

 

Sarah Dudley Pettey
Twentieth Century Negro Literature, ed.

by D.W. Culp and J.L. Nichols, p. 183, published 1902.

Born in New Bern, North Carolina, Sarah Dudley was the daughter of Edward Richard and Caroline Dudley. Sarah was born in 1869, the first member of her family to be born in freedom.

There would eventually be eight children in the family, two boys and six girls.

Title: Mrs. Sarah E. C. Dudley Pettey; Collection.

  • In the summer of , teacher and journalist Sarah Dudley Pettey brimmed with enthusiasm as she sat down to write a newspaper column entitled “The Up-To-Date.
  • Christian Temperance Advocate, Musician, Treasurer of Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of AM Zion Church in America, Africa and the Isles of the Sea.
  • Is driven home by Sarah Dudley pettey.
  • William married Sarah Ann Minnie Pettay (born McEachern).

    • After the Civil War her father, Edward, served for many years in the North Carolina State Legislature.

    Sarah attended the New Bern Public Schools; the New Bern State Colored Normal School; and the Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina.

    Scotia Seminary was a Presbyterian school for women with a biracial faculty. Scotia emphasized academics alongside teaching the cultural refinements expected of ladies at