Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, 1830-1912

Sara Agnes Rice was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1830. Her father was Rev. Samuel Blair Rice and her mother was Lucinda Walton Leftwich. She was home schooled in music, modern languages, history and English literature.

In 1848 she married Roger Atkinson Pryor, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following the Civil War, Mrs. Pryor sold her jewelry to enable her husband Roger to go North to start a new career. She followed him some years later. Anges Pryor was a woman who was always interested in patrotic works, snd in 1890, with the wife of President Benjamin Harrison, founded the Daughters of the American Revolution. SHe was also a charter member and honorary president of the COlonial Dames, and the Martha Washngton Society.

In her later years, Sara Pryor published several books, including The Mother of Washington and her Times (1903), Reminiscences of Peace and War (1904), The Birth of the Nation (1907), and My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life (1909).

Sara and Roger has a son who was a student at Princeton. After his graduation from Princeton he went to New York City to study law. He vanished before finishing his studies and his body was found in the East River, the cause of his death never discovered. His Princeton classmates had him buried in the Princeton Cemetery. This is probably why his mother and father were interested in being buried here.