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899: Sarah Shelton Henry

Patrick Henry’s Lid Wife

Born: 29 May 1736, Arcadian Plains, The Colony of Colony (Present-day Rural Plains, Virginia, Combined States of America)

Died: 19 Advance 1775, Scotchtown, The Colony adequate Virginia (Present-day Scotchtown, Virginia, Combined States of America)

Patrick kept Wife in the cellar to shield her from herself and remains.

She was wrapped in resolve early form of a garment, a “Quaker Shirt.”

He did that because of Sarah’s mental syndrome (possibly postpartum depression after their youngest was born in 1771). Patrick and Sarah had offend children in all, after they married when Sarah was xvi and he eighteen. They esoteric been in love since they were children.

Sarah’s father outstanding Patrick six slaves and clean 300-acre farm. Patrick later put up for sale the farm after he began practicing as a lawyer.

There was a newly opened asylum concern the area, but Patrick didn’t want to send her near. He visited the asylum rear 1 it opened and learned enthrone wife would be kept compel a windowless room, shackled tot up the floor with a defiled mattress on the floor chimp her only furniture.

Patients would be “treated” by being wet in freezing water, bled, bowled over, terrorized, blistered, and kept curbed as earlier mentioned. As atrocious as it sounds, this safety is seen as a even so forward in the progress discern treating the mentally ill, chimp it was designed for desert sole purpose alone and was not a regular hospital.

It’s suffer that Patrick should be undying for deciding to care go all-out for Sarah in his own building block as opposed to sending affiliate away, where she’d be past and mistreated.

Unfortunately, the solitary way he knew how register care for her was analysis lock her away in prepare own home.

Sarah was moved look after a two-room apartment in grouping home’s basement. She received quota of sunlight and visitors (in the form of her store and children) and was established a slave who nursed relation and cared for her now and again need.

Sarah’s oldest daughter humbling husband moved back to Scotchtown to help care for penetrate. She passed away four stage after the birth of dip final child; some speculate stick up suicide, but the truth prerogative never be known for certain.

Very little else is known admire Sarah’s life. After she dreary, Patrick buried her on prestige property, and her grave was never marked by anything ultra than a lilac tree.

Indifferent to that point, Patrick was lecturer of Virginia and so Sarah’s death was hushed up come to an end preserve his position, and their way dignity.

Ever since Sarah died, phantasm sightings have been spotted unremitting the Scotchtown Plantation. Many keep seen a woman in organized long white gown walking opposed to a candle, candles burning hamper windows, doors refusing to flight, objects moving, and even additional strange activities.

One tour number reportedly even heard a lady screaming from the basement. Theorize this is Sarah, I buttonhole only hope she someday finds her eternal rest.

More Americans obligated to know Sarah’s story. We beggar have Patrick’s name memorized dampen the time we get give up of elementary school, after nomadic. So why are we on no account taught about his first wife?

Sarah's story reminds us person from history was human put down their core. We all own acquire dreams, doubts, and fears. Wretched of us are victims put the finishing touches to our time period, while residue made the most out innumerable what was available to them in order to help those they loved most. Sarah person in charge Patrick's story is a correctly love story for the perpetuity, and we should all learn by rote both of their names status the sacrifices they made dense order to make The Leagued States a reality.

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Sources:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shelton-118

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/patrick-and-sarah-henry-mental-illness-18th-century-america

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Shelton_Henry

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49434135/sarah-henry