Notes
Sarah Aylett Graham, a third-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry, was born on August 27, 1900, in Texas. Her parents were Cornelia (Corrie) Dandridge Sampson (1874-1903) and Malcolm Montross Graham, Sr. (1865-?); her mother died when she was three years old.
This photograph was taken when Sarah was six years old. She is dressed in a "Persian costume" with clothing pieces passed down through her family for sixty years. According to the newspaper clipping adhered to the back of this photograph, she won a first place prize for "Prettiest Little Girl."
Sarah was first married in November 1922 to Frank W. Simpson, Sr. and they had three sons: Frank W. Simpson, Jr., Geary Graham Simpson, and William A. Simpson. Widowed, she married her second husband, Waller Rodes Powell, in 1935. She died on August 22, 1982, in Louisville, Kentucky.
This photograph was given to PHMF on May 3, 2023, by Monique and Philip Heller. They inherited this object and the others in this accession from her stepmother, Catherine Spotswood Fontaine Lawrence (1938-2015), a third-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry. Sarah Aylett Graham was her second cousin.