Tennessee Historical Commission honors Mrs. Sarah King

The Courier, Vol. LXI, No. 3, June, 2013

Mrs. Sarah King, died on February 20 at the age of 91.

Long an advocate for historic preservations, Mrs. King made the address to the City Council to save Oaklands Mansion as an Historic Site, and also made the address to the County Court in 1959, which was responsible for saving the Rutherford County Courthouse from demolition; she was Regent of the Sam Davis Memorial Association for 8 years and member of the Board for more than 30 years.

She was Vice-President of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities, as well as a member of the Rutherford County Historical Commission, Chapter VII of the Colonial Dames of America, Vice-Regent of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists and organizing Regent of the Captain Thomas Jameson Chapter.

A member of many other patriotic organizations, she was a Live Member of the Ladies Hermitage Association, and the First Methodist Church, Murfreesboro.

(https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/environment/historic-commission/courier/thc_courier_jun13.pdf)

 

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