Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell Guernsey

Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell Guernsey (1860–1939), also known as Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, was an American educator and philanthropist. She served as the 10th president general of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and was the founder of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists.

Early life and family Guernsey was born Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell in 1860 in Salem, Ohio to Daniel P. Mitchell and Ann Eliza Baker. Her great-great-grandfather, Rev. John Mitchell, served as a private in the Virginia Militia and in Captain James Pendelton's company in the First Continental Artillery during the American Revolutionary War. During her first week in office, she formed the War Relief Service Committee. She traveled to France following World War I, visiting Tilloloy, where the DAR would rebuild the municipal water system.