"[4]: 172 Anarcha next turns up as "a young colored woman, about seventeen years of age, well developed" belonging to a Mr. Wescott [sic], who lived a mile from Sims' house, at that time in Montgomery, Alabama.
[5][page needed] Whereas Anarcha's "colleague" Betsey, on whom Sims would operate for a similar problem, had "married last year",[4]: 228 no source comments on how Anarcha became pregnant, so the unidentified father of her stillborn child may well have been Mr. Wescott or Dr. Sims.
Hallman's work eventually revealed her gravesite, and he managed to locate living descendants of Anarcha and her husband, Lorenzo.
[5] Sims performed 30 experimental, operations without anesthesia on Anarcha before successfully closing the fistula and tears.
[6] On December 21, 1856, Anacha [sic], age 32, was admitted to Sims' Woman's Hospital in New York, with the notation that she stayed about a month and was discharged in January 1857 as cured.
[13] The book was published in 2023 as Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health.
Say Anarcha went on to be praised by The New York Times as "a truly astounding tale...compelling and well-researched" and "an important book [that] deserves to be read widely.
"[14] The Brooklyn Rail called the book "an instant classic" and "a new masterpiece"[15] and noted that "Hallman had done what no scholar had previously succeeded in doing, namely unearthing information about Anarcha independent of Sims’s tendentious accounts of her life.
In 2021, artist Michelle Browder toured the country raising funds and asking for donations of discarded metal objects, which she would weld to construct a 15-foot memorial to Anarcha Westcott and two other women (Betsey and Lucy) who were experimented on by Sims.