Sara Beaumont Kennedy

Born Sara Beaumont Cannon in Somerville, Tennessee, she became an American writer and newspaper editor whose work reached both newspapers and national magazines. Sources found during this search describe her as a prolific author, and Wikipedia identifies her lifespan as 1859 to March 12, 1920.

Her best-known book is Joscelyn Cheshire: A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas (1902), a historical novel set in the Revolutionary era. Other records located here note that she also wrote poetry, children's literature, and additional fiction, giving her a varied body of work rather than a single-genre career.

One detail is worth clarifying: some library and archive records list her as "d. 1921," but the biographical sources found here give her death date as March 12, 1920. When dates conflict, the safer summary is that she was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is remembered chiefly for her Southern historical writing.