Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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The Howler of the Year Nineteen Hundred Twenty-seven

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SARAH MERRIAM. WIFE OF SAMUEL WAIT In spirit, as in labor and sacrifice, one ivith her husband. (J75 ORN in Sharon. Massachusetts. 1794: of sturdy and cA-J cultured New England families, her father being Deacon Jonathan N4erriam and her mother Sarah Conant; inspirer. encouragcr and helper of her husband in his strug- gles to get an education: gracious young housewife, en- tertaining General Lafayette in her Washington home; heroic fellow missionary with her husband in his work as General Agent, taking her little daughter and making her home with him in a jersey wagon, zigzagging for three years across the State from seashore to mountains: sharing with her husband the toil necessary to set the new institution at Wake Forest going, often laying her hands to the lowliest tasks, the serving of tables and the weav- ing of mattresses allotted members: and made the first banners of the Literary Societies and publicly presented them at the Fourth of July celebration at the Institute in 1835: the first woman in the history of the College, first in time and first in extent and character of her sacrifices and services: she died in 1871. Her husband is knoivn in the gates, where he sitteth among the elders of the land. Since the art theme of THE HowLER is a historical resume of the College from its foundation to the present, the Staff is very fortunate in having secured as Sponsor Miss Elizabeth Courtney Lumpkin, great-great-grand- daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Wait. H