Name/Title
Gertrude Sarah GreerEntry/Object ID
2025.215.8Description
Gertrude Sarah Greer was born July 1, 1902 in Stoughton, Massachusetts to Jerome Greer and Winifred W. Sears, the eldest of their three children. Gertrude’s father was a clergyman, and by 1910 the family had relocated to East Lyme, where Jerome was serving as the village Methodist minister. Ten years later, the Greers had moved to Mystic, and were living on Church Street. Gertrude, or “Sarah”, as she preferred to be called, graduated from Stonington High School in the class of 1919. After graduated, Sarah went to Yale, where she studied music. In 1924, she was engaged to Willard E. Uphaus of Ridgeville, Indiana. In 1925, the young couple was married in Springfield, Massachusetts, Sarah’s father’s church. The following day they received their diplomas from Yale University. After their marriage, they settled in Nashua, NH where Willard worked as a Professor, and served as the chair of religious education. By 1930 the couple was living in New Haven, and Willard was teaching at a local university. The couple divorced sometime before 1950. That year, Sarah was recorded at a Wallingford Sanitorium, but the reason for her admittance was not noted. She was only listed as forty seven years old, divorced, and unable to work. Sarah married her second husband, Laurence K. Burwell in 1976. She later took a position as an executive secretary at Yale University. Sarah died in 1999 at the age of ninety six.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Tingley, Geo. E.Role
PhotographerDate made
1919Time Period
20th Century