Arria Sargent Huntington

Biography

Arria Sargent Huntington, born in 1848, carried forward her family’s sense of civic responsibility, lending her time to charitable causes and contributing to the improvement of schools and services for her neighbors in Hadley. She welcomed others into her home and office, encouraging conversations about how to meet local needs with thoughtfulness and care.

Her friends recall her as a wise advocate for the common good whose energy helped fund public gatherings and charitable outreach, and her absence is felt whenever Old Hadley Cemetery is visited, where she now lies among the landscape she helped tend.