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English
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1 child: Horatio Hale
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Captain Gordon Buell, Martha Buell
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♏ Scorpio
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猴 Monkey
Name Origin
English < Biblical Hebrew (שָׂרָה)
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Sarah Josepha Hale: American writer and editor (1788–1889).
Born in Newport (died at age 90).
The name Sarah means princess in Hebrew.
Biography
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American Thanksgiving holiday and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
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Sarah Josepha Hale was born on and passed away on at the age of 90.
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Sarah Josepha Hale was born in Newport.
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