Sarah Emily York

Sarah Emily York was an American missionary to Greece.

Biography

Sarah Emily York was born in 1819 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After completing her schooling at the female seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts, she became a teacher in Boston. She taught both in a private school and in a Baptist Sunday school.
With the support of Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, she arrived to Greece as a missionary in 1844.
She started the works at the missionary fields of the Greek islands of Corfu and Zakynthos as well as in the city of Piraeus. She worked in a school at Corfu. In 1848, she married John York, a native of Corfu.
She died in Charlestown in 1851 following “fever”.