wife of Henry Cady Sturges, daughter of George Gray MacWhorter
[Sarah Adams Mac Whorter Sturges was born in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, in 1864, a daughter of George Gray Mac Whorter and Sarah Deborah Adams. She was a great great great granddaughter of Elizabeth Hobson and Sherwood Bugg, who was a Capt. in the Richmond County militia during the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Sturges also traced her ancestry to four other Revolutionary War officers.
She married Henry Cady Sturges, son of Mary Pemberton Cady and Jonathan Sturges, in 1884, and lived in the historic Sturges Cottage on Mill Plain Green in Fairfield, Connecticut, with her family until her death in 1959 at age 95. She was survived by 5 children, 17 grandchildren, and 45 great grandchildren.
Throughout her long life Mrs. Sturges was active in many charitable and community organizations. She was among 16 women from the Fairfield area who founded the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter DAR in 1894. She served as the chapter’s 1st vice regent and later its chaplain.
In 1898 she served on the Executive Committee of the Fairfield Auxiliary No. 29 of the National Red Cross, which rendered assistance to convalescent soldiers from the camp at Montauk Point returning from the Spanish-American War. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Audubon Society, which had been founded in Fairfield in 1898. She organized and was president of the Fairfield chapter of the Needlework Guild of America in 1908, an organization founded in 1896 and still nationally active, which made, collected, and distributed new clothing to hospitals, orphanages, and low-income families.
She was the last surviving charter member of the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter and is buried in the Jonathan Sturges family plot in Fairfield East Cemetery on the Old Post Road in Fairfield.
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