Agnes Woolsey Bacon

     Agnes Woolsey Bacon was born on 20 July 1896, in Denver, Colorado.¹ Father: Alfred Terry Bacon (b New Haven, CT).¹ Between August 1911 and September 1912 Agnes lived in Switzerland.¹ In November of 1920 Agnes traveled to Japan and China visiting friends. She left from San Francisco on the ship Columbia. She returned to the port of Seattle, Washington, in May of 1921 on the ship Empress of Russia, from Yokohama, Japan.^1,2 She married Ziegler Sargent, son of Henry Bradford Sargent and Harriet Amelia Oaks, on Thursday, 9 July 1931. Ziegler and Agnes published a monthly 4 page journal about the Sargent family and all the relatives. He started this in 1943, as a way for the family to know about the servicemen who were serving in WW II. He had received, and subsequently quoted, many letters from Sargents overseas. Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, all were mentioned - although the year was not printed for women over the age of 21. He also had become interested in researching the ancestors of Joseph B Sargent and Elizabeth Collier Lewis (his grandparents). Every issue would contain stories about the ancestors. They started the paper and published it until he died in 1955.³ Agnes Woolsey Bacon died on 11 September 1980 at age 84. She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, CT.⁴