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Sarah Elizabeth Tanner
Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (May 18, 1840 — August 2, 1914) was active as a missionary worker and a religious leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was the wife of Benjamin Tucker Tanner. She was the mother of the artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the physician Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, and the grandmother of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander. She was the subject of two portraits by her son, his ''Portrait of an Artist's Mother'' and ''Mother of Henry O.'' Biography Sarah Tanner was born in Winchester, Virginia as Sarah Elizabeth Miller, the daughter of Charles Jefferson Miller (1808 — 1856) and Louise (Saunders) Miller (1809 — ?), and one of their six children. Charles was the mulatto son of a Virginia planter who took his family to "the free state of Pennsylvania" in 1846, driving them north in an ox cart. Alternatively, the family may have moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1843. Sarah's father took work as a porter in Pittsburgh, but p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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