Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell Guernsey

John Mitchell, served as a private in the Virginia Militia and in Captain James Pendelton's company in the First Continental Artillery during the American Revolutionary War.[1] After graduating from the Kansas State Normal School, Guernsey worked as a schoolteacher for four years.[1] She was elected President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and served in that position from 1917 to 1920.[3] She traveled to France following World War I, visiting Tilloloy, where the DAR would rebuild the municipal water system.[3] On December 9, 1920, Guernsey founded the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, a lineage society for women who are lineal descendants of people who served in military or civil capacities in one of the Thirteen Colonies before July 4, 1776.
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