Sally Cottrell Cole
- Name
- Sally Cottrell Cole
- Given Name
- Sally
- Family Name
- Cottrell Cole
- Birth Date
- 1800
- Death Date
- 1874-02-17
- Sex
- Female
- Description
- Sally Cottrell Cole (circa 1800 - February 17, 1875) was born at Monticello and was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Thomas Jefferson. In 1827, Cottrell was purchased for $400 by University of Virginia professor Thomas Hewitt Key, who immediately manumitted her. As a freedwoman, she stayed in Charlottesville where she worked for University of Virginia Chemistry Professor John P. Emmet and, later, as a seamstress. She was baptised in 1841 at the First Baptist Church and married freedman Reuben Cole around 1846. She is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Charlottesville.
- Source Resource
- https://omeka-s-dev.internal.lib.virginia.edu/api/items/215
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