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Sources consulted for the biography of:Sarah Garland Boyd Jones (1866–1905)
Primary Sources
- M. A. Majors, Noted Negro Women: Their Triumphs and Activities (1893), 242
- Month and year of birth in United States Census Schedules, Richmond City, 1900, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage Register, Richmond City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
- Daniel Smith Lamb, comp. and ed., Howard University Medical Department, Washington, D.C.: A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Souvenir (1900), p. 187–188
- Proceedings of the Medical Examining Board of Virginia, 1884–1902, Minutes and Examination Results, 1884–2006, Virginia Board of Medicine, Accession 22731, Library of Virginia
- Richmond Hospital Association incorporation in State Corporation Commission Charter Book 50:536–538, Record Group 112, Library of Virginia
- Richmond City Death Certificates, 1905, Richmond City Department of Public Health, Library of Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Sara W. Brown, "Colored Women Physicians," Southern Workman 52 (1923): 588–589.
- Hallie Q. Brown, comp. and ed., Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1926), 247.
- K. Richmond Temple, "Sarah G. Jones: A Pioneer Physician," Richmond Quarterly 7 (winter 1984): 48–49.
- Elvatrice Parker Belsches, "Sarah Garland Boyd Jones," in African American National Biography, eds., Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (2008), 4:681-682.
Newspapers
- Richmond Planet, May 6, 1893 (passed examination); June 3, 1893 (practice advertised); January 26, 1895 (feature article)
- Richmond Times, February 21, 1902
Obituaries
- Richmond News Leader, May 11, 1905; May 17, 1905
- Washington Post, May 12, 1905
- Richmond Planet, May 13, 1905
- Roanoke Evening News, May 15, 1905
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