Sarah Berry
Sarah Crosby Berry was the daughter of Nannie Smith and Horatio Berry from Hazel Path, which is also on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sumner County, Tennessee. At a very young age she entered Peabody College and received her Bachelor of Science in 1916 for scientific farming. She then became the manager of her great-great-great grandfather, Daniel Smith’s farm, Rock Castle. She managed the farm by using the techniques that she learned in college and the most up-to-date machinery and technology available. The "Southern Agriculturist" named her the most “Outstanding Woman Farmer of Tennessee” in 1918. She also was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and a founding member of "The Friends of Rock Castle".
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