***Mrs. Frederick Adolphus Sawyer***
Buried next to her husband. Date of birth and death unknown at this time.
Additional Information on her husband:
US Senator, Educator.
Born in Bolton, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard University, he taught school in New England for fifteen years before moving to Charleston, South Carolina where he received an appointment to be in charge of the South Carolina Normal School. He was elected to the US Senate on the Republican ticket and served the people of South Carolina in the US Senate from 1868 to 1873. In the Forty-first congress, he served as Chairman of the Education Committee and in the Forty-second congress, he was on the Education and Labor Committee. After his senatorial post ended, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1873 to 1874. He was employed in the US Coast Survey from 1874 to 1880 and was a special agent in the War Department from 1880 to 1887. After leaving government service, he gave private instruction to students at Cornell University. After teaching, he moved to Tennessee and became president of his own company founded to promote the sale of agricultural lands in the East Cumberland Gap region. He died at Shawnee, Tennessee.
****Their daughter's memorial provides additional information on the family.****
Buried next to her husband. Date of birth and death unknown at this time.
Additional Information on her husband:
US Senator, Educator.
Born in Bolton, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard University, he taught school in New England for fifteen years before moving to Charleston, South Carolina where he received an appointment to be in charge of the South Carolina Normal School. He was elected to the US Senate on the Republican ticket and served the people of South Carolina in the US Senate from 1868 to 1873. In the Forty-first congress, he served as Chairman of the Education Committee and in the Forty-second congress, he was on the Education and Labor Committee. After his senatorial post ended, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1873 to 1874. He was employed in the US Coast Survey from 1874 to 1880 and was a special agent in the War Department from 1880 to 1887. After leaving government service, he gave private instruction to students at Cornell University. After teaching, he moved to Tennessee and became president of his own company founded to promote the sale of agricultural lands in the East Cumberland Gap region. He died at Shawnee, Tennessee.
****Their daughter's memorial provides additional information on the family.****
***Mrs. Frederick Adolphus Sawyer***
Buried next to her husband. Date of birth and death unknown at this time.
Additional Information on her husband:
US Senator, Educator.
Born in Bolton, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard University, he taught school in New England for fifteen years before moving to Charleston, South Carolina where he received an appointment to be in charge of the South Carolina Normal School. He was elected to the US Senate on the Republican ticket and served the people of South Carolina in the US Senate from 1868 to 1873. In the Forty-first congress, he served as Chairman of the Education Committee and in the Forty-second congress, he was on the Education and Labor Committee. After his senatorial post ended, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1873 to 1874. He was employed in the US Coast Survey from 1874 to 1880 and was a special agent in the War Department from 1880 to 1887. After leaving government service, he gave private instruction to students at Cornell University. After teaching, he moved to Tennessee and became president of his own company founded to promote the sale of agricultural lands in the East Cumberland Gap region. He died at Shawnee, Tennessee.
****Their daughter's memorial provides additional information on the family.****
Buried next to her husband. Date of birth and death unknown at this time.
Additional Information on her husband:
US Senator, Educator.
Born in Bolton, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard University, he taught school in New England for fifteen years before moving to Charleston, South Carolina where he received an appointment to be in charge of the South Carolina Normal School. He was elected to the US Senate on the Republican ticket and served the people of South Carolina in the US Senate from 1868 to 1873. In the Forty-first congress, he served as Chairman of the Education Committee and in the Forty-second congress, he was on the Education and Labor Committee. After his senatorial post ended, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1873 to 1874. He was employed in the US Coast Survey from 1874 to 1880 and was a special agent in the War Department from 1880 to 1887. After leaving government service, he gave private instruction to students at Cornell University. After teaching, he moved to Tennessee and became president of his own company founded to promote the sale of agricultural lands in the East Cumberland Gap region. He died at Shawnee, Tennessee.
****Their daughter's memorial provides additional information on the family.****
Inscription
Senator Sawyer and wife are buried on property owned by Sawyer Family called Sawyer Heights.
