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Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman

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Birth	:	21 Apr 1867 Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Death	:	28 Jun 1947 Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial	:	Island Cemetery, Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.4956589, -71.3135605
Plot	:	Section I, Lot 7, Grave 2
Description	:	Socialite and Heiress. Daughter of John Carter Brown (1797-1874) and Sophia Browne Brown (1825-1909); favorite granddaughter of Nicholas Brown II, founder of Brown University and Head of The Brown Family Dynasty for three generations. Last wife and longtime widow of William Watts Sherman (1942-1912), a New York City businessman who for fifty years served as treasurer of the Newport Casino. Known for her commanding and brashly outspoken personality; she could instantly be unusually kind and caring. Weighing an enormous 270 pounds ~ she had a special water lift of equal size designed and built for her beloved Newport residence to... Read More	Socialite and Heiress. Daughter of John Carter Brown (1797-1874) and Sophia Browne Brown (1825-1909); favorite granddaughter of Nicholas Brown II, founder of Brown University and Head of The Brown Family Dynasty for three generations. Last wife and longtime widow of William Watts Sherman (1942-1912), a New York City businessman who for fifty years served as treasurer of the Newport Casino. Known for her commanding and brashly outspoken personality; she could instantly be unusually kind and caring. Weighing an enormous 270 pounds ~ she had a special water lift of equal size designed and built for her beloved Newport residence to help her get up the three flights of floors. The fiery duster of enormous physical weight disdained the press and photographers, applying on a heavy thick veil and hat whenever she left her mansion. Raised in a strict Episcopalian family, she was an intense Bible basher ~ insisting that music, alcohol, tobacco, divorce, shouting and flirtation were all sins. Naturally eccentric since her early days, she never drank anything but mineral water. Like many of the gothic victorian homes she lived in as a girl, she filled her home to the brink with over-gilded furniture and antiques. Being helped everywhere by a large gilded cane and two burly attendants; she rarely left her Newport home, if ever going to her townhouse at the corner of 838 Fifth Avenue. Her Newport home, known as 'Sherman Villa', designed and built by H. H. Richardson, encompassed over thirty rooms and fifteen guest bedrooms. In the 1930's, with dancing becoming the new fashion, she hired Newport architect Dudley Newton to design and construct a heavily-gilded ballroom wing onto the side of her mansion. Living another seventeen years at her Newport villa, she died of a three-year illness at her beloved Newport home, being buried next to her elderly husband at Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. Bio by: Bobby Kelley

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Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman's memorial is located at: Island Cemetery, Newport, Newport County, USA.
When did Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman death?
Sophia Augusta Brown Sherman death on 28 Jun 1947 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
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Latitude: 41.4956589
Longitude: -71.3135605

Family Members:

Parent

John Carter Brown

(1797 - 1874)

Sophia Augusta Brown Brown

(1825 - 1909)

Spouse

William Watts Sherman

(1842 - 1912)

Siblings

John Carter Brown II

(1840 - 1907)

John Nicholas Brown

(1861 - 1900)

Harold Brown

(1865 - 1900)

Children

Irene Muriel Augusta Sherman Gillespie

(1887 - 1972)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Island Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4956589, -71.3135605

2. Saint Marys Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4971085, -71.3135147

3. Friends Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4934807, -71.3136826

4. God's Little Acre Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4965150, -71.3163130

5. Willow Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4949890, -71.3164650

6. Common Burying Ground
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4959564, -71.3165741

7. Braman Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4956360, -71.3169098

8. John Clarke Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4937897, -71.3112869

9. Coddington Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4923706, -71.3143616

10. North Burial Ground
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4981270, -71.3170700

11. Bliss-Pierce Lot
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4941140, -71.3090260

12. Malboro Street Tomb (Defunct)
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4911110, -71.3136110

13. Barney Street Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4893608, -71.3109818

14. First Sabbatarian Church of Newport Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4891701, -71.3116379

15. Dyre Family Burial Ground (Defunct)
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5016070, -71.3209220

16. Trinity Church Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4874229, -71.3131180

17. Colonial Jewish Cemetery of Rhode Island
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4879265, -71.3093567

18. Moravian Church Lot
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4874190, -71.3113130

19. First Congregational Churchyard (Defunct)
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4864020, -71.3119910

20. Judge Anthony Wilbur Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4989600, -71.3018300

21. Governor Arnold Burying Ground
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4861300, -71.3119900

22. Newport Congregational Church Cemetery
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4857674, -71.3128662

23. Goat Island Pirate Graves
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4928600, -71.3269300

24. Goat Island Burial Ground
Newport, Newport County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4930330, -71.3272510