Sarah Cornell Clarkson

Biography

Sarah Cornell Clarkson was born in 1762 and died in 1803 at the age of forty-one, her life lived during the transformative years of American independence and the early republic. She was connected through her family to the prominent Clarkson family, known for their involvement in New York's social and civic life.

Her relatively early death in 1803 cut short what might have been a longer life, yet she was honored with burial in Trinity Church Cemetery, a place of distinction befitting her family's standing. Sarah's life, though brief by modern standards, spanned the crucial decades of American nation-building and the establishment of the new republic.