Sara Sothern

Here Sarah Viola Warmbrodt, the mother of my kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. She was an actress under the name Sara Sothern. She looks like Lerona Rosamond.

Jon Presco

Copyright 2016

Many online biographies of Elizabeth Taylor will state that her mother Sarah had been a stage actress, who gave up her career upon marriage.  These brief comments, don’t however satisfy me.  I want to know more details.  So I dig.  My full biography, ancestry, and movie list for Elizabeth Taylor is at my Knol “Elizabeth Taylor”

Sarah Viola Warmbrodt was born 21 Aug 1896 in Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas, the daughter of Samuel Sylvester “Sam” Warmbrodt (1861-1948) and his wife Anna Elizabeth Wilson (~1864-1932).  In 1900, the family is found in the U.S. Federal Census that year, living at Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas, where he learn that Sam was born in Illinois, and his wife Anna in…