page_title: Alonzo Potter
section_title: Marriages and family
hierarchical_section_title: Alonzo Potter / Marriages and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs. Alonzo Potter (Sarah Maria Nott)
context_page_description: Alonzo Potter was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States who served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Potter "identified himself with all the best interests of society."
context_section_description: Potter married three times: first to Sarah Maria Nott, next to her first cousin, Sarah Benedict, and last to Frances Seton.
  Sarah Maria Nott Potter
  In 1824, Potter married Sarah Maria Nott. She was the only daughter of Eliphalet Nott, President of Union College. On March 16, 1839, Sarah Nott Potter died about four hours after giving birth to her seventh child and only daughter. Potter described his wife's many virtues: "she gave herself, seemingly without a pang, to her household, to her friends, and to anyone whom she could make more happy." She was "a centre of delight to all who knew her."
  Sarah Benedict Potter
  
  According to his wife's request, the children were placed under the care of her cousin Sarah Benedict. Alonzo married Miss Benedict in 1840. She was thirty-one years old. They had three boys. Before her death Sarah Benedict Potter suffered from consumption, which made her "too ill to do active work."
  Frances Seton
  
  In 1865, Potter married his third wife Miss Frances Seton. They were married only three months before he died on July 4, 1865. She died on October 27, 1909 in Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. Her will bequeathed $10,700 to charitable and religious bodies. Of this, $5,000.00 was given to the Board of Mission of The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
caption: Mrs. Alonzo Potter
  (Sarah Maria Nott)
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