Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1909 — SARAH ORNE JEWETT DEAD [ARTICLE]

SARAH ORNE JEWETT DEAD

One of America's Foremost Women Writers Passes Away. South Berwick, Me., June 25.—An illness lasting many months ended in the death of Sarah Orne Jewett, regarded as one of the foremost women writers of America. Since last March Miss Jewett has been at her old home here, where for many years she was accustomed to pass her summers. She was a sufferer from apoplexy and paralysis.