Tombstone Tuesday ~ Sarah Rowe wife of William Cogswell, died 1849, Derry, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at Forest Hill Cemetery in Derry, New Hampshire.

SARAH E. ROWE

WIFE OF

WILLIAM COGSWELL

BORN AT EAST KINGSTON

DIED IN THIS TOWN

JULY 18, 1849

AGED 33 YRS.

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Sarah Elizabeth Rowe was born in East Kingston (Kensington), New Hampshire on 4 March 1814, the daughter of Winthrop and Nancy Rowe.  She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) from 1839 - 1840.  She was a teacher in Lancaster, Sanbornton and Exeter, New Hampshire, and then married William Cogwell on 12 August 1846 in Exeter, New Hampshire.  

There must have been several local Derry girls who attended Mount Holyoke. The local Adams Female Academy in East Derry had Mary Lyons as a teacher. Lyons went on to found Mount Holyoke in 1837 after leaving Derry, and some of her students must have followed her.  Sarah Rowe was one of the first students at Mount Holyoke.

William Cogswell was the son of Joseph Cogswell and Abigail Cleaveland, born in Londonderry (now Derry) on 23 October 1806.   He was a selectman in Derry in 1838 and 1839. 

Click here for a blog post about the Adams Female Academy in East Derry:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/03/adams-female-academy-1824-derry-new.html  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Sarah Rowe wife of William Cogswell, died 1849, Derry, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 27, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/02/tombstone-tuesday-sarah-rowe-wife-of.html: accessed [access date]).