Sara M. Cox

Sara Matilda Cox (March 15, 1863 – March 30, 1943) was an American nurse, born in Canada, one of the "Sacred Twenty", the first twenty women admitted to the United States Navy Nurse Corps.

She was superintendent of nurses at the Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C. during World War I. Cox was born near Grand Lake, New Brunswick, British North America.

[2] After her appointment to the Navy Nurse Corps, she had further training at the Naval School Hospital in Washington.

[2][3] That year, she was chosen to be one of the "Sacred Twenty", the first twenty women admitted to the Navy Nurse Corps when it was established in 1908; the group included Esther Hasson, Lenah Higbee, and Josephine Beatrice Bowman, the first three superintendents of the Navy Nurse Corps.

[10] In 1920, Cox was part of the wedding party when Nadezhda Troubetskoy, a "Russian princess" training as a nurse at the Naval Hospital, married American soldier Wallace Strait Schutz.