BIO: BOLTON, Mrs. Sarah T. [nee BARRITT], Campbell Co., KY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in US GenWeb Archives by the Kentucky Biography Project Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Subject: BIO: BOLTON, Mrs. Sarah T. [nee BARRITT], Campbell Co., KY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. ******************************************************************************* Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Campbell County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 577. MRS. SARAH T. BOLTON, Nee Barritt, was born in Newport, Ky., in 1820, but removed with her parents before she was four years old, to Indiana - her home henceworth being at Madison and afterwards at Indianapolis, except while absent in Europe with her husband, when he was U. S. consul to Geneva, Switzerland, 1855-58. Between 1845 and 1858, Mrs. Bolton wrote numerous poems, some of them "among the most beautiful of the day;" and while in Switzerland was a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. [Note: Poems shown: "If I Were The Light Of The Brightest Star" and "Dirge For The Old Year."] *******************************************************************************