Sally Cottrell Cole
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Name
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Sally Cottrell Cole
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Given Name
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Sally
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Family Name
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Cottrell Cole
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Birth Date
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1800
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Death Date
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1874-02-17
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Sex
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Female
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Occupation
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Seamstress
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Description
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Sally Cottrell Cole (circa 1800 - February 17, 1875) was born at Monticello and was claimed in ownership by white enslaver Thomas Jefferson. She labored as a maid for Ellen Randolph (Coolidge), Jefferson's granddaughter. Later, she was claimed in ownership by Ellen's husband, Joseph Coolidge. Between 1825-1827, she was contracted to labor for University of Virginia professor Thomas Hewitt Key. In 1827, Sally was trafficked and sold for $400 by Coolidge to Key, who immediately manumitted her. As a freedwoman, she stayed in Charlottesville where she worked for University of Virginia Chemistry Professor John P. Emmet and, later, as a seamstress. She was baptized in 1841 at the First Baptist Church and married freedman Reuben Cole around 1846. She is buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Charlottesville.
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Spouse of
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Reuben Cole
