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Christmas card from Sara Madison and family

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  • This undated Christmas card showing Sara and James Madison’s sons, Mark and Timmy on the front and “We Love you, Jack, Sara, Mark, and Timmy” written on the back is part of the Sara Madison Collection. Dr. Sara Jean Sutton Montgomery Madison (1931-2017) had a lifelong association with Western Carolina University, and was married to James A. Madison (1928-2015), grandson of the university’s founder, Robert Lee Madison (1867-1954). As a child, Sara lived in Davies Hall on the campus of Western Carolina University, and later on Buzzard’s Roost overlooking campus with her parents, Eddie Marie Wike Sutton and Ralph Coleman Sutton.