Name: Sarah Eliza Collins (named after both grandmothers)
Age: 25
Father: Jack Collins, teacher
Mother: Annette Georgina Montgomery Collins, seamstress and house wife
Sarah Eliza is a little slip of a girl, barely five feet tall with long
blond hair and green eyes. She's not a great cook, like all her sisters,
but she can bake bread and cakes that men would (and have) fought over.
She speaks and teaches French along with her native English.
She loves teaching and children, dancing¡ªshe loves square dances, but
she also knows the more formal dance steps¡ªand she loves cats and riding
horses, and writing poetry, though she usually doesn't let too many
people know about that hobby.
She has four younger sisters, Mary Alice, Rachel Susanne, Cynthia
Louise, and Nancy Rebecca, all of whom are married, most with at least
two children, and scattered across the country.
Sarah Eliza left her home in Virginia and took the furthest teaching job
that she could find, mostly to get away from an annoying suitor, and her
mother's constant match-making attempts. Her Mother cries herself to
sleep at night thinking her eldest is going to become an old lonely
spinster teacher, but her father is proud of his daughter's independent
spirit, and says she reminds him so much of her mother when she was
young.
Sarah is normally a thoughtful, even-tempered young lady, except when it
comes to the mistreatment of women and/or girls, which her fourth
brother-in-law learned the hard way when she blacked both his eyes and
almost broke his nose after he slapped Nancy Rebecca, her youngest and
favorite sister. He's been an upstanding husband ever since.
She is looking forward to teaching in a small town setting.
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Linda Brown