Ella Dillian Christine (Sadler) Coe (1902 - 1983)

Born 7 Apr 1902 in Silver Point, Putnam, Tennessee, United States

Died 27 Jun 1983 at age 81 in Washington D.C., United States

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Biography

Christine (Sadler) Coe is Notable.

Ella Sadler was born on April 07, 1902 in Silver Point, Putnam county, Tennessee, United States. She married Richard Coe

Christine Sadler received her undergraduate degree from Peabody College (now an affiliate of Vanderbilt University) and her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1937.

Originally a journalist for the Nashville Banner (1930–1936), she was a reporter, national news bureau staffer and Sunday Editor for The Washington Post from 1937 until 1946. She was president of the Women's National Press Club early in her career in Washington. Sadler was the first woman to cover a national political convention for the Washington Post.

She was appointed and served as a charter member of The Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services from 1956 through 1959.

While continuing to write for the Post on a freelance basis for many years, Sadler became Washington, D.C. editor of McCall's magazine in 1944 until her retirement from that position in 1971. Sadler covered the White House for both the Post and McCall's, and authored two books, America's First Ladies and Children in the White House.

She was survived in death by her husband, Richard L. Coe, theater critic emeritus for the Post.^[1]

In 1910, she is living in Putnam county, Tennessee, United States with parents, Phillip, Frances, siblings, Henry, Johnnie, Effie,^[2]

In 1920, she is living in Putnam county, Tennessee, United States Phillip, Frances, siblings, Henry, Johnnie, Martha, Mary, Phillip, uncle, Calvin,^[3]

She died in June 27 1983 in Washington D.C., United States^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Christine Sadler From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. ↑ Citation "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGFQ-7MQ : accessed 21 July 2022), Ella D O Sadler in household of Phillip Sadler, Civil District 13, Putnam, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 87, sheet 11A, family 101, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1516; FHL microfilm 1,375,529.
3. ↑ Citation "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNPQ-PLD : 3 February 2021), Christine Sadler in entry for Philip E Sadler, 1920.
4. ↑ Citation "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP2-8NW6 : accessed 21 July 2022), Christine Sadler Coe, Florida, United States, 27 Jun 1983; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Miami Herald, The, born-digital text.

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