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  1. Sarah Harrison grew up with two younger sisters and attended a private school in Kent. Her father, Ian Harrison, was an executive in the retail industry and her mother was a specialist in treating reading disabilities.

  2. Feb 19, 2015 · Since spiriting NSA leaker Edward Snowden to safety in Russia two years ago, activist and WikiLeaks editor Sarah Harrison has lived quietly in Berlin.

  3. Sep 12, 2016 · She spent 40 days stranded in a Moscow airport with Edward Snowden and was Julian Assange’s closest confidante. Here, Sarah Harrison tells Susannah Butter about life with the super-hackers

    • The Mother-In-Law Tree of Jamestown Island, VA
    • The History of Sarah Harrison and Dr. James Blair
    • During and After Their Marriage
    • College Created
    • The Mother-In-Law Tree
    • The Legacy of Sam Robinson
    • The Future For The Blairs

    Jamestown Island is off Glasshouse Point, along the Colonial Parkway. It’s home to Historic Jamestown and the Jamestown Memorial Church. It’s here at the Church that visitors could come to see the legendary Mother-in-Law tree and hear the strange tale of familial obligation and young love.

    Before Marriage The new Jamestown Memorial Church was built in 1907 on top of the original 1617 church foundation. There’s a small cemetery behind the church, and among the interred deceased are James and Sarah Harrison Blair. Sarah was the daughter of Colonel Benjamin Harrison, owner of the Wakefield Plantation. She lived an entitled life as a gen...

    Sarah was disowned by her family’s surviving members and forbidden from being buried in the Harrison plot in the Church’s cemetery. When she died in 1713 (without having children), she was buried in a stone crypt about six feet from her family’s plot. She was just out of arm’s reach of her parents and other relatives. Blair lived for another thirty...

    Blair used these plans to approach King William III and Queen Mary II in 1691 about funding the creation of a college in Williamsburg. Since he was a clergyman for the Church of England, he proposed the new school could train other clergymen and missionaries on both sides of the Atlantic. Ministers would use the school to educate and civilize the N...

    When Blair died in 1743, he was buried next to his wife and sweetheart Sarah. Their tombs only had a space of about a few inches between them. Jamestown Island was abandoned and allowed to become completely overgrown. The original church from the colony ended up crumbling into ruin. As nature took over, the graves were forgotten. Sometime in 1750 (...

    When Jamestown Island was restored, the Memorial Church needed a sexton. In1922, Canadian native Sam Robinson was hired by Ms. Ellen Bagby and the Associate for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. He became the caretaker of the island in 1935. Sam was a likable and friendly man who loved history and was an excellent orator. He enjoyed teachin...

    Some versions of the story refer to the tree as the “cursed tree” or “mother-in-law’s revenge.” The Park Service eventually was forced to cut down the tree. Strangely, a new sapling started growing in the same place! As of 2007, Park Rangers removed the second tree, and the graves were restored to their rightful places, side-by-side, together again...

  4. Jul 6, 2013 · Harrison grew up in a privileged British home, her father a retail industry executive and her mother a specialist in treating reading disabilities.

  5. Sep 12, 2016 · Interview Sarah Harrison, the British WikiLeaks journalist who successfully spirited Edward Snowden from Hong Kong to safe (ish) asylum in Russia, has told The Register how she did it – and what’s next for the NSA whistleblower, and for Julian Assange.

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  7. Mar 13, 2019 · Sarah Harrison was born in Germany. Judging her age, she looks like more than 25 years old woman. Ever since Sarah was a kid, she was always keen and passionate about lifestyle and fashion.

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