While she was amongst the elite, her role was one of future wife and mother. Sarah Morgan, the seventh child of the pair, grew up in a wealthy established household amongst the New Orleans elite. While she did not inherit the plantation, she did inherit the ideology of the planter class and a high-class status in southern Louisiana. Orphaned at a young age, she grew up with her guardian George Mather on his large Louisiana plantation. Sarah, his wife, was born in New England. Thomas, in contrast, became a successful lawyer and public servant. His brother married a daughter of Colonel Philip Hicky and became a respected member of the planter class.
Thomas “Gibbes” Morgan, a New Jersey-born and Pennsylvania educated lawyer, had immigrated to the South in the 1820s with his brother Morris Morgan. Both parents were not native to the South. Nineteen years prior, Sarah Morgan was born to Judge Thomas Gibbes Morgan and his second wife Sarah Fowler Morgan in New Orleans, Louisiana. On January 10, 1862, in the first entry of her new diary, Sarah Morgan wrote “A new year has opened to me while my thoughts are still wrapped up in the last Heaven send it may be a happier one than 1862.” The year prior her father had passed away unexpectedly, her brother Henry Waller Fowler Morgan had been killed in the duel, and the Civil War had just begun.
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