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Long Interested in Historical Matters - Funeral Rites Private.
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Mrs. Harriet Amelia (Oaks) Sargent, widow of Henry Bradford Sargent, who died in 1927, died yesterday in her 88th year. For the last three years she lived with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Collier Sargent, at 313 St. Ronan Street.
Funeral rites will be private.
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Many Interests
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Mrs. Sargent was interested in historical matters, was one of the founders of the Mary Clap Wooster chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and an active member of the Connecticut society of colonial Dames. She was a member of the Fortnightly.
She was interested in many charities, and through her family had a wide acquaintance among Yale men and was a keen follower of the university's affairs. Her husband was treaturer of the Yale Field Corporation for 20 years, followed by 18 years as an elected alumni fellow of the university.
In his later years they took several Summer trips to Europe with their daughter Elizabeth, and after his death she spent many summers motoring in England with her daughter, until affairs abroad prevented it.
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Noted Family
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Ms. Sargent was born in New York City May 27, 1854, the youngest of three children of Charles Henry Oaks of this city, and his third wife Rhoda. Her great-grandfather, Nathan Oakes was the first of the family to settle in this city. He was one of the 58 members of the Second Company, Governor's foot Guard, formed marcy 2, 1775, which marched to Boston under Capt. Benedict Arnold after his historic demand for the keys to the powder house here.
Mrs. Sargent spent her first five years at her widowed father's home, and then went to live with her aunt Amelia, wife of Rev. George E. Day, later dean of the Yale Divinity school. They were residing in Walnut Hills, near cincinnati, Ohio, at the time. One of her early recllections was of being in cincinnati during the civil War and seeing President Lincoln drive by.
The Days moved to this city in 1870, when Mr. Day was appointed to the holmes professorship of the hebrew language and literature at the Yale Divinity school. He was dean from 1888 to 1895.
Through her brother she met Henry Bradford Sargent, the eldest son of Joseph B. Sargent, who moved to New Haven when the Sargent & Co. factory moved here in 1864. They were married in her uncle's house Dec 4, 1879. They lived in the old Bacon house at 247 church treet which they later purchased and where she lived until 1938.
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Had Five Children
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She had five children, Elizabeth Collier Sargent, unmarried, who retired a few years ago from the staff of the Ethel Walker School of Simsbury, and has since been living with her mother; Ziegler Sargent, who is vice-president and treasurer of Sargent & co.; Rhoda Miles Sargent, the widow of Robert F. Tilney, proprietor of the Pettibone Tavern, Westogue, and who has two married children, Bradford S. Tilney of Cheshire and Sylvia, M., the wife of Henry H. Skerrett, Jr., of Weatogue; Murray Sargent, who has four sons, Murray, Jr., (married and father of Murray 3d) James C., Henry B. and John M.; and Bradford Sargent, who died in boyood.
Sources of Information
- Newspaper, probably New Haven Register, New Haven, CT, obituary notice.
- Evergreen Cemetery Office, New Haven, CT, plot listing.