Introduction

Biography

Sarah was the daugh­ter of Ed­win Ty­ler and Al­la Ma­ry Ed­wards, and wife of Ed­ward Car­ring­ton Hen­shaw (ma­rried 1849, Har­ri­sburg, Penn­syl­van­ia).

In the Am­er­ican ci­vil war, dur­ing which Ed­ward com­mand­ed Hen­shaw’s Bat­te­ry, Sar­ah lived in Ot­ta­wa, Il­li­nois. There, she helped or­gan­ize an aid so­cie­ty and served as its sec­re­ta­ry.

Later, she be­came as­so­ci­ate man­ag­er of the Sa­ni­ta­ry Com­mis­sion in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, and was elect­ed to write the his­to­ry of its work; she called her book Our Branch and Its Tri­bu­tar­ies.

After her hus­band’s death in 1872, Sar­ah moved to Ca­li­for­nia to be near­er to her bro­ther’s es­tate and her son Ed­ward.

The 1880 cen­sus shows her liv­ing in Oak­land, Ca­li­for­nia.

Works

• Our Family: A Little Account of It for My Descendants (Oak­land, Ca­li­for­nia, 1894)