Sarah N. Randolph

Sarah Nicholas Randolph (October 12, 1839 – April 25, 1892) was an American educator, school principal, historian, and an author.

He was a farmer and politician, drafting a bill for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people, before the American Civil War.

[6] She corresponded with Hugh Blair Grigsby, a historian, about details and accuracy of History of the Life and Times of James Madison by William C. Rives and John Smith's Pocahontas.

[7] She wrote about her great grandfather in The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson: Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences that was published in 1871.

"[1] From this northern terrace the view is sublime; and here Jefferson and his company were accustomed to sit, bare-headed, in the summer until bed-time, having neither dew nor insects to annoy them.

Here, perhaps, has been assembled more love of liberty, virtue, wisdom, and learning than any other private spot in America.Her work, The Lord Will Provide, was published in 1872.

She found southern figures of the American Civil War "no less loved, no less honored, and no less brilliant … [Robert E.] Lee and [Stonewall] Jackson" than George Washington.

[1] In 1877, her work, "Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph," was published in Worthy Women of Our First Century, which was edited by Mrs. O. J. Wister and Agnes Irwin.