The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
Birth5 Feb 1749-50, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA ®1906
Death4 Dec 1774, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA ®1906
Burial4 Dec 1774, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA ®1906
Misc. Notes
She died 3 weeks before her planned marriage to Dr. Benjamin Rush. She had red hair and was always fashionably dressed. She was called Sally.
®1906 Her diaries have been frequently published
®3696and once were in Augusta, in the possession of her great niece, Eve Berrien Eve, Mrs. Charles Colcock Jones, Jr., whose husband was the famous Augusta attorney, historian, anthropologist, author of "The History of Georgia” and "The History of Augusta” and one of the subjects of the acclaimed Civil War volume, "The Children of Pride”
From a letter of my cousin Hannah Longstreet speaking of the old Journal Aunt Adams used to tell us of her father's love for his only sister who was so beloved by a large circle in Philadelphia. Her hair though red was always fashionably dressed and her appearance was stately. On one occasion when a companion said she was "too proud" another answered there was more humility under Sally Eve's high head than under many a Quaker bonnet".
®1893