Early, Sarah J. W. (Sarah Jane Woodson), 1825-1907

found: Life and labors of Rev. Jordan W. Early, 2003:t.p. (Sarah J.W. Early) p. 160 (Miss Sarah J. Woodson, of Berlin, Ohio)

found: African American registry (http://www.aaregistry.com/africanamericanhistory/1341/SarahJaneEarlyfoughtforeducationandspirit), Feb. 18, 2004(b. Nov. 15, 1825, Sarah Jane Woodson, daughter of Thomas and Jermimma Woodson. She was an African-American teacher, abolitionist, and feminist. In 1868, Early went to teach at a school for Black girls in Hillsborough, North Carolina run by the Freedmens Bureau. That same year she married Rev. Jordan W. Early, a pioneer in the AME Church movement. d. in August 1907)

found: African American women, 1993:pages 169-170 (Sarah (Woodson) Early, one of the first black women on the Wilberforce University faculty, where she taught until 1868.)

found: Find a Grave (online), viewed October 16, 2020(Sarah Jane Woodson Early, born November 25, 1825 in Chillicothe, Ohio; died August 15, 1907 in Nashville, Tenn. According to family tradition, her father Thomas was the son of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings. The family moved to Berlin Cross Roads in Jackson County in 1829, where they established a settlement of African Americans. Attended Albany Academy in Albany, Ohio. After finishing her studies at the Albany Academy , she transferred to Oberlin College and graduated in 1856. After graduation from Oberlin College, she taught school in a number of communities in southern Ohio. Hired by Wilberforce University in 1859, later taught and was principal at schools across Ohio and in Hillsboro, N.C. After her marriage in 1868 she and her husband moved to Nashville, Tn., then Memphis, Tn.)