From: History of Paris, Maine from Its Settlement to 1880 with a History of the Grants of 1736 & 1771 Together with Personal Sketches, a Copious Genealogical Register and an Appendix by Henry E. Prentiss, 1880.

Sarah J. Prentiss was the daughter of Henry Prentiss and was born in Paris [ME] in 1823. She was a lady of literary tastes and many accomplishments. She was not only a writer, but an artist as well, and many of her landseape sketches done in oil have been greatly admired. Many of the productions of her pen, both in prose and poetry, have found their way into print. During the war of the Rebellion, when nurses were wanted to take charge of the loyal sick in Southern hospitals, Miss Prentiss volunteered her services, and was there until near the close of the war. After her return from the South with impaired health, she went to Europe and was absent three years. She returned with health still more impaired, and finally she was obliged to give up her home in Paris and go to live with her brother in Bangor. She died Oct. 21, 1877, aged 54 years. She is gratefully remembered by many wounded and sick Maine soldiers who were fortunate enough to come under her kind care during her hospital service. She attributed her impaired health and early death to malaria contracted while in the Southern hospitals. She was kind-hearted, a friend to the poor, and the benefactor of many families in her native town who will ever remember her with gratitude.

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