Catherine (Kate) Sargent Sumner
(1825 - 1909)
Catherine, also known as Kate, presumably traveled to France, England and Italy around 1858. Although thirty three, Kate was unmarried. There are no details concerning this trip aside from what can be gathered from the used passport. Despite the possible situation, an unmarried woman traveling unaccompanied was an unusual case.
(1825 - 1909)
Catherine, also known as Kate, presumably traveled to France, England and Italy around 1858. Although thirty three, Kate was unmarried. There are no details concerning this trip aside from what can be gathered from the used passport. Despite the possible situation, an unmarried woman traveling unaccompanied was an unusual case.
This late 1870s journal is a collection of riddles, puzzles and... epitaphs. Kate's husband died in 1879 and after only seventeen years of marriage she never remarried. Little is known of their relationship, but the epitaph collection may have been a form of mourning for the recent widow. The epitaphs come from cemeteries in Ireland and England, indicating that she traveled abroad again either shortly before or after her husband's death.