He was aided in the last decade of his life by the generosity of Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, a wealthy widow.

In 1877, Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, a wealthy widow who had heard of his difficulties, invited him to stay at her plantation of Beauvoir near Biloxi, Mississippi.

* Sarah Dorsey ( 1829 – 1879 ), author and benefactor of Jefferson Davis

It was purchased in 1873 by the planter Samuel Dorsey and his wife Sarah Dorsey.

After her husband's death in 1875, the widow Sarah Ellis Dorsey learned of Jefferson Davis ' difficulties.

Ill with cancer, in 1878 Sarah Ellis Dorsey remade her will, bequeathing Beauvoir to Jefferson Davis and his surviving daughter, Varina Anne Davis, known as " Winnie ".

In 1873 the property was sold to Frank Johnston and soon thereafter to Samuel and Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey.

Sarah Dorsey was a novelist and historian, who wrote a biography of the Louisiana wartime governor, Henry Watkins Allen.

Advised to take a home near the sea for his health, he accepted an invitation from Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, a widowed heiress, to visit her plantation of Beauvoir on the Mississippi Sound in Biloxi.

Sarah Dorsey was determined to help support the former president.

* Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey, American author and benefactor of Jefferson Davis

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He played and / or recorded with Hoagy Carmichael, Count Dracula, Cab Calloway, Maynard Ferguson, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Fats Waller, Tony Burrello, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, and Clifton Chase, mostly playing tambourine.

He wrote most of the book at Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Mississippi plantation where he was living as a guest of the novelist and wealthy widow, Sarah Ellis Dorsey.

Sarah ( 1751 – 1829 ) was the daughter of Thomas Vaughan of Harnham Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland.

On March 18, 1829 Sarah Vaughn, John Molson ’ s wife, died after acquiring rheumatism and using the only known cure, laudanum.

They had three children ; Elizabeth Short Harrison ( 1825 – 1904 ), William Henry Harrison ( 1827 – 1829 ) and Sarah Lucretia Harrison ( born 1829 ).

In 1829 Wentworth married Sarah Cox ( 1805 – 1880 ), with whom he had seven daughters and three sons:

William Jefferson in 1829, Grandison Deroyston in 1830, Sarah Jane in 1832, John Colbert in 1834, and Sydinham James in 1835.

) and Sarah Ann Watkin ( 1829 -?

After marrying Sarah Munford in 1829, he purchased a farm near Lebanon, Tennessee.

They had three daughters: Felicia ( 1770 – 1829 ) who in 1791 married the Reverend Robert Hele ; Maria ( 1773 – 1852 ) unmarried ; and Sarah ( 1775 – 1853 ) who in 1796 married the Reverend Humphrey Hole.

Joseph married Sarah Humphreys ( 1829 -?

* Sarah, born at Fort Colvile in 1829, married R. Finlayson in 1849

On Flower's death in 1829, his two daughters, Eliza Flower and Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, became Fox's wards.

* Sarah Austin ( translator ) ( 1793 – 1867 ), English author

* 1967 – Sarah Cracknell, English singer ( Saint Etienne )

* 1977 – Sarah Jane Morris, American actress

* 1976 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress

* 1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist ( Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre )

* 1993 – Sarah Hecken, German figure skater

* 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet

* 1960 – Sarah Brightman, English soprano, songwriter, and actress

* 1847 – Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer ( d. 1927 )

* 1984 – Sarah Roemer, American actress and model

* 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress

* 1996: Sarah Cannon Humanitarian Award – TNN Awards

* 1988 – Sarah Walker, Australian actress

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

* Sarah Martin: 1997 – present, violin, keyboards, electric and acoustic guitar, and vocals

Portrait of Sarah Allibone Leavitt, 1893 – 1894.

* Four Christmases ( 2008 ) – Aunt Sarah

* 1973 – Sarah Kozer, American model and actress

* 1970 – Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian

* 1969 – Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist

* 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person ( b. 1880 )

* Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah ( 4: 21 – 5: 1 )

* Sarah O ' Brien – cello